Stringer waiting for a chance

IF you were Peter Stringer, 33 years of age, within two matches of your 100th international cap and looking forward avidly to a third Rugby World Cup, what would you have made of last week’s developments?

Having been passed over for the first World Cup warm-up games, he must have been pretty happy about his prospects of figuring either from the start or off the bench in Bordeaux on Saturday.

Instead, he was released back to Munster for their French camp and Friday’s clash with La Rochelle. Even then, he wasn’t brought into the action until after half-time.