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Thu 07 Jul 2009O'Connell standing up well to pressures
RUGBY LIONS TOUR TO SOUTH AFRICA:PAUL O’CONNELL is facing probably the biggest test of his captaincy skills this week.
Along with the management, O’Connell must help galvanise a side which, not alone is in last-weekend mode, but is facing into what amounts to a dead rubber with only pride and averting a whitewash at stake. On the face of it, his captaincy looks an almost thankless task this weekend.
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