Biarritz president confirms O’Driscoll discussions

FURTHER indications are emerging from France that Brian O’Driscoll is on his way to Biarritz.

Marcel Martin, president of the club, has confirmed that the Irish captain and his agents have already had discussions with Biarritz and he also revealed that O’Driscoll has intimated he will join them when his IRFU contract expires in June.

“We have had discussions with him and his agents for some time,” Martin disclosed on the Biarritz website. “He wants to play somewhere else other than Ireland from June 2006 and his preference is for France. That being the case, he would prefer to go to Biarritz, then Toulouse and after that maybe Paris. Biarritz would be honoured to have such a player in our ranks.”