The rugby land of opportunity

EDDIE O’SULLIVAN may be looking forward to his reunion with the Ireland team this weekend, but you can be sure he won’t be spending too much time looking back on it once his first Test match in charge of the USA is over.

O’Sullivan’s latest incarnation, as the Eagles’ national team head coach, begins on Sunday at the Buck Shaw Stadium in Santa Clara, California, with the Setanta Challenge Cup Test against his former charges.

After O’Sullivan faces his old side in California he will take his new team to face Wales in Chicago on June 6 before returning west for the Churchill Cup tournament in Denver and games against Argentina A, England Saxons and a play-off match with either Ireland A, Canada, or Georgia.