Foley focus switches to Castres after ‘nice little warm-up’

“JUST a nice little warm-up game for Castres.”

That was Anthony Foley’s jocose way yesterday of switching his attentions from the international arena to next Friday’s Heineken European Cup game in the south of France. There seems to be little rest these day for our top players, but Foley and Paul O’Connell insist there will be no difficulty motivating themselves for the clash with Castres.

Until Ronan O’Gara’s magnificent match winning drop goal in the 79th minute, the man of the match award was going to Foley with O’Connell only a short step further down the pecking order.