After BOD and then POC, we have now lost SOB, as a foot infection rules Sean O’Brien out of the Scotland game. We’re now officially worried.
News has just come through that Leinster flanker Sean O’Brien has been forced out of the Scotland game this weekend with a foot infection. O’Brien hadn’t trained this week but he was named in the team by Declan Kidney yesterday and based on that we assumed he was going to be grand.
Sadly it seems he isn’t and into the side comes Munster’s Peter O’Mahony, with Shane Jennings taking O’Mahony’s place on the bench. Some of the more positive among you may look on this as a chance to see a player like O’Mahony get a shot from the start but we can’t help feeling a little worried.
Aside from our two injured captains, O’Brien has been one of Ireland’s most influential players over the last year or so. If Scotland were confident before, they are surely even more so now.
And any of you who feel that this latest blow tips the balance in the Scots favour, they are still available at around 11/4 in your local friendly bookie.
Anyone tempted to go against their country?
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