Seán O’Brien’s turn to benefit from injury bad luck

Opportunities are like buses in Connacht. There is always another one around the corner.

Pat Lam’s willingness to place his faith in youth is implicit, but it is an approach dictated by necessity as much as invention, given the slim enough resources out west and an injury list that has ballooned like a swollen knee this season. So, for every casualty there is a beneficiary and Seán O’Brien has taken advantage of the attrition rate this campaign to good effect.

A debut in Siberia against Enisei last November got him started and he has since racked up the Guinness Pro 12 appearances in Lam’s back row.