Ace O’Driscoll reaches new heights as Lions roar to victory

SOMETHING of a curate’s egg this. Those of an optimistic bent will look to the rematch in Agen next Saturday buoyed by four tries, a gritty defensive display and a bonus point picked up with impeccable timing at the death by a sublime Brian O’Driscoll.

Fans of a more pessimistic nature will point to an overrun scrum and a place-kicking problem that could haunt them if the game in the Stade Armandie proves to be a nip-and-tuck affair.

While the game provided snatches of the good and the bad from Leinster, it also threw up — literally — a glimpse of the ugly when O’Driscoll’s dinner made an unscheduled reappearance on the Lansdowne Road turf midway through the first half.