And despite coming up against France on many occasions during his illustrious career, Ross concedes he still has a sense of doubt as to what to expect.
"It's a cliche, but the French can be fairly unpredictable as to how they're going to play," he said. "They're generally more dangerous at home, but they've been playing pretty well and we certainly have a lot of respect for them. It's not so long ago that Paris was a graveyard for Irish teams and that's still in the back of our minds.
"What we really want from our scrum is a solid base, a good way of delivering a solid platform for our backs. It's not all about driving over and winning penalties, although it's nice when it happens.
"But we have to be realistic and realise it's not going to happen every scrum. First and foremost we want a solid, clean platform and if you look back at our games we've delivered that for the most part over the last three years or so."
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