A change ain’t gonna come

AS IF EDDIE O’Sullivan hadn’t enough on his mind, with seemingly the whole of Ireland screaming for him to fall on his sword, he spent most of yesterday trying to figure out just what kind of three-quarter line he should put out against England at Twickenham on Saturday.

He names the team at lunchtime today.

How to achieve the kind of result that might help him to retain his job was central to his strategy but what he described as the “conundrum” in the centre position wasn’t helping. He could take a practical way out of his dilemma and leave the back division that finished the Welsh game in place. That would leave a virtual “rookie” in Luke Fitzgerald joining the defensively-frail Andrew Trimble and retaining another youngster, Rob Kearney, at full-back.