Continuity pleases O’Connell

Ireland’s Six Nations captain Paul O’Connell has endorsed coach Declan Kidney’s policy of selection continuity ahead of the 2012 championship.

Kidney’s selection of a senior training squad, all of whom featured in last autumn’s run to the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals, received criticism in many quarters last week for being overly conservative.

Yet with three of the six teams going into the RBS 6 Nations with new head coaches and the attendant turnover of playing personnel, O’Connell said he believed continuity would hold Ireland in good stead.