Lion Bounce
Titans vs Lions who wins this game?
Some say this would be a trap game. However I still think the advantage is still with the Titans. They have the pressure off with the first loss out of the way, are focused on getting back on track after a lopsided loss. I’m not saying that Lions messing up the Titans isn’t a possibility, however the Titans won’t be looking past the Lions, and I do believe they will succeed at bouncing back.
Will this be a blowout for the Titans?
It may have been a trap game if the Titans beat the Jets this past Sunday. Since they lost, I feel very sorry for the Lions. The Titans will have no mercy.
It’s not a matter of will the Titans win….it’s a matter of by how much will they win.
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Brian O’Driscoll Ready For Six Nations Challenge – Six Nations 2010
BRIAN O’DRISCOLL is Six Nations royalty, it really is that simple.
No other player has bestrode the tournament like the Dubliner, and no-one has tasted the highs and lows of rugby’s greatest annual tournament.
The Ireland captain, who lifted his country’s first Grand Slam in 61 years last season, has been the tournament’s greatest performer since the Six Nations started in 2000.
O’Driscoll isn’t just one of the top players of his generation, he would have been a true great in any era. How he wasn’t voted the IRB’s world player of the year for 2009, after his wonderful exploits with Ireland, Leinster and the Lions, is still a mystery.
O’Driscoll, a folk idol in Ireland, has reinvented himself from the effervescent and side-stepping young buck of his early 20s into one of the game’s true Test warriors.
And even the most rabid Welsh rugby fan, after the emotion had subsided of last-gasp defeat at the Millennium Stadium last March, would have begrudged O’Driscoll the joy of finally nailing a Grand Slam.
After a decade of coming up short and any manner of personal and professional disappointments, O’Driscoll finally had a year he deserved.
On top of a first Grand Slam for more than half a century, he lifted the Heineken Cup with Leinster and proved he is still a world-class centre with the Lions in South Africa.
But those who think O’Driscoll’s desire and ambition has been sated by last season’s success are in for a surprise. He may be in the twilight of a truly brilliant career, but his warrior spirit is still going strong.
“You get selfish after attaining a goal and you get a taste for it,” said O’Driscoll. “It doesn’t mean your ambition isn’t still there and if anything, it probably heightens it.
“I enjoyed the trappings that came with it, the winning itself, the celebrations in the country.
“It was great and if you could do it again, why not? It’s better than not doing it again.”
But don’t for one minute think O’Driscoll is being arrogant or any sort of complacency has set in. He is under no doubt about the task facing Ireland, who kick off at home to Italy and follow that with away games against France and England.
The Irish wrap up with Croke Park clashes with Wales and Scotland.
“We are owed nothing in this Six Nations after being unbeaten last year. We have to earn it again and we start from scratch,” said O’Driscoll.
“We are not affected by public perception, it’s what our own view in the camp is and what we want to achieve ourselves which is important.
“We don’t go shouting to the world about what we want to do … but we do want to get better as a team and play a better brand of rugby.”
“As Irish people, we don’t do the middle ground. We either do the very top or the very bottom,” said O’Driscoll.
What impresses about O’Driscoll is how he has reinvented himself as a player. That yard of explosive pace may have gone but these days the first few yards are in his head.
He is always one step ahead of his opponent and is renowned as one of the great tacticians.
But O’Driscoll knows that while he is at the peak of his powers, the end of his career is closer than the beginning.
“I really enjoyed the last year or so,” said O’Driscoll.
“There are plenty of things I haven’t achieved. The World Cup is there in the background, but 18 months is a huge time in international rugby.”
The focus, for the time being, is a repeat of last season’s exploits, although the fixture schedule is arguably more daunting this time around.
“And England can be a very difficult team to beat at Twickenham when they build some momentum. That will be extremely tough, too.
“But what makes it such a great competition is that in the eight times I have led my country since 2003, I have always talked about four or five teams capable of winning the Six Nations.
“Look at Scotland, they are the most improved side when you look at the way they beat Australia in November.
“Wales won the Grand Slam the year before us and Italy can take a scalp even if they aren’t capable of winning five games on the bounce.
Ireland have set themselves a mission impossible during this tournament – back-to-back Grand Slams. They are capable of it, but the last side to achieve that were France in 1997 and 1998, so how does O’Driscoll go about achieving the feat?
“You don’t retain anything, you give it back and try and win it again. That is the way we will look at it,” said O’Driscoll.
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