O’Driscoll: we’re up against 15 Alan Quinlans

WORD on the grapevine for the last few months had it that Argentina hold ambitions of playing a far more expansive game than the attrition-based forward slaughter they usually favour.

Brian O’Driscoll, has a warning though: don’t believe the width.

The Irish captain has experienced the full gamut of emotions when facing the Pumas, from the horror of Lens in RWC ’99 to the nail-biting one-point win in Adelaide 13 months ago. Whatever the result though, the game itself has never deviated from the same script - a dogfight where no quarter can be expected or given.