Aussies keen to test themselves against ‘superstar’ O’Driscoll

THEY may have just beaten the All Blacks to claim the Tri-Nations championship but Australia’s all-star backline were treating their Irish counterparts with the utmost respect when they faced the media at their team hotel in Auckland city centre yesterday.

By common consensus, Ireland’s star man remains captain Brian O’Driscoll with Wallabies scrum-half Will Genia leading the plaudits when he said of the centre: “He’s a superstar of the game.

“He’s done everything and been around for a long, long time and that’s a sign of a great player in this game.”