BOD times it perfectly

Make all the noises you want about the team, and the match, and the result, rather it being Brian O’Driscoll’s final international — O’Driscoll himself certainly did so all last week — but there’s no point in being reasonable.

France-Ireland on Saturday was all about O’Driscoll, and in particular it was all a matter of how it would end, and whether the schedulers would have been better off arranging the tryfest against Italy as O’Driscoll’s farewell to arms.

Bear with us. There’s a legal requirement to write about Brian O’Driscoll this weekend, or maybe a technological imperative: I doubt there’s a sportswriter on the island whose scribbling implement would function properly without producing something — anything — about the Dublin native.