Timing a friend to Peter O’Mahony and a foe for CJ Stander

Amid all the hoopla about Peter O’Mahony’s captaincy of the Lions is the salient point that in sport, as in life, timing is everything. 

To say that O’Mahony is the beneficiary of good timing would be an understatement.

That timing was not all of his own making. How he has progressed since Jamie Heaslip rolled his ankle at the Aviva Stadium, in March, is worthy of scrutiny.