Playing the waiting game

AT 11am on Sunday at the team hotel in Dublin, Eddie O’Sullivan will name his 30-man World Cup squad and bring the guessing game as to its composition to a close.

Mick O’Driscoll, like many others, is one who will be left speculating this week. And like many fringe players amongst the group of 37 back in camp in Dublin since yesterday, he is hopeful an opportunity to impress the boss one more time may arise against Scotland on Saturday.

The Munster man is one of the many players in the second row/back row areas where competition for places has been extraordinarily intense, not just this year, but even going back prior to the 2003 World Cup.