Ireland captain and coach rain scorn on Jonny Wilkinson injury claims

Ireland head coach Eddie O'Sullivan and captain Brian O'Driscoll have both spoken out about England's claims that Jonny Wilkinson may miss the Ireland game due to injury. They don't believe a word of it, and O'Sullivan said: "England are playing silly buggers at the moment, I'd be amazed if he doesn't play on Saturday. I don't believe in doing all that kind of stuff, it is all nonsense."

Right. Hang on a minute. As Brian O'Driscoll has also added his tuppence by saying: "Teams sometimes play these sort of games beforehand." Now, they may be right (they probably are right), but as for O'Sullivan not believing in "doing all that kind of stuff", I would like to refer him to Brian O'Driscoll's own book in which O'Driscoll details how, having been injured against Italy in the 2005 Six Nations, both he and Gordan D'Arcy needed crutches to walk, but abandoned them at the airport because: "no point letting the Scots know that the two of us were completely banjaxed!"

Oh, tut England, playing such games with injuries is clearly not acceptable to Ireland (unless it's them playing them). Get over yourselves, everyone does it. And also, if Jonny doesn't play, you look really stupid and kind of cruel as well. (But he probably will play). Also, in the same interview O'Sullivan made out that he believes Ronan O'Gara to be of the calibre of Jonny Wilkinson. Yeah. Okay.