O’Driscoll steals Wallaby thunder

IRONIC that the scrum provided the platform to salvage an Irish draw from yesterday’s international test that Australia always seemed destined to win.

That it was Brian O’Driscoll who broke Wallaby hearts will hurt the tourists even more. Australia had all but snuffed out Ireland’s talisman but his brilliantly constructed try at the death now deprives the tourists of emulating the Grand Slam deeds of their illustrious predecessors of 1984.

The main worry for Ireland coming into this contest was the lack of collective game time at this level since that historic Grand Slam day in the Millennium Stadium last March.