Leamy ready for tough Namibian test

THE confident expectation — especially after Eddie O’Sullivan’s conservative selection for the game — is that Ireland will have a romp against Namibia in the Stade Delmas in Bordeaux on Sunday night.

The likelihood is that the backs will have a field day and wingers Andrew Trimble and Denis Hickie will help themselves to a feast of tries.

However, the task awaiting the back-row trio of Simon Easterby, David Wallace and Denis Leamy may be tougher, the trio are only too well aware that if there is anything approaching true world-class talent in the opposing side, it rests among their opposite numbers.

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