Brian O’Driscoll- A Moment of Genius
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
By Maja Gojkovic
Brian O’Driscoll is the current Ireland and Leinster rugby team captain and plays number 13 for both teams. Brian was awarded the Irish captaincy in 2003 after the international retirement of Ireland captain Keith Wood. With his new captaincy he then went on to lead Ireland to the Triple Crown and a second place finish in the Six Nations.
In 2007, Ireland enjoyed a great Six Nations tournament that saw them narrowly losing out to France on a single score. O’Driscoll is currently the Irish top try scorer with 31 tries, and is currently leading Ireland in the 2008 Six Nations Rugby Tournament, in which they are currently in second place, behind Wales.
Below you can view a clip of O’Driscoll in action -
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Let’s look at what has been happening so far in the Six Nations:
| Ireland | 16 - 11 (10 - 3) |
Italy |
| England | 19 - 26 (16 - 6) |
Wales |
| Scotland | 6 - 27 (6 - 17) |
France |
| Wales | 30 - 15 (10 - 6) |
Scotland |
| France | 26 - 21 (19 - 6) |
Ireland |
| Italy | 19 - 23 (6 - 20) |
England |
| Wales | 47 - 8 (13 - 8 ) |
Italy |
| Ireland | 34 - 13 (14 - 6) |
Scotland |
| France | 13 - 24 (7 - 13) |
England |
This is how the standings look at the moment after three games played each:
Wales 6
Ireland 4
France 4
England 4
Italy 0
Scotland 0
As you can see, Wales are in the strongest position at the moment.
However, if O’Driscoll and his boys beat Wales in their next match, it could set up the possibility of Ireland, Wales, France and England all going into the final game with a chance of winning the championship.