Ireland captain Brian O'Driscoll is looking forward to the chance to "run with the ball" when his side clash with Australia.
Irish skipper relishing the chance to run with the ball
Ireland captain Brian O'Driscoll is looking forward to the chance to "run with the ball" when his side clash with Australia in Melbourne.
Atrocious conditions in Wellington forced Ireland to play a forward-orientated game against New Zealand on Saturday, with neither set of backs seeing much of the ball.
However, with the roof of the Telstra Dome, free-flowing rugby should be the order of the day - and O'Driscoll is determined to lead the way.
"It's nice to think that it will be a dry night and we will get the chance to express ourselves," he said.
"From a backs point of view, you want to express yourself, run with the ball, take people on and get offloads.
Space
"That's the way I was brought up, to play the game and enjoy the game as I don't like having to chase kicks all day.
"I want to be able to do the best parts of my game. Take people on and put people into space. It is nice to think that we will get the opportunity to do that on the weekend.
"The conditions we had last week didn't favour either backline and it was very much a forward-orientated game and a (number) 10 kicking game.
"That can be frustrating and I would like to think that this weekend, if we get some kind of quality ball, that we have plenty of guys within the team that are capable of doing special things with the ball and creating something out of nothing.
"When you have those guys in your team then you have a chance of scoring points and winning games, and it's just a matter of making sure players click and we are on the same wavelength for the period of 80 minutes."
