IRELAND CENTRE BRIAN O’DRISCOLL has set his sights high for the final year of his professional rugby career. During an appearance on the Late Late Show, O’Driscoll targeted a Six Nations Grand Slam and a victory over the world champion All Blacks in November.
Speaking to Ryan Tubridy on the RTÉ talk show, Ireland’s record try-scorer confirmed he would be hanging up his rugby boots at the end of the season. He insisted he would not be around for a fifth tilt at the World Cup, in 2015, before adding Ireland would not ‘have a bigger cheerleader than me if they get into the final’.
“It is going to be the last year but I don’t want it to be the long goodbye,” said O’Driscoll. The 34-year-old remarked that success had made him selfish, stressing a desire to win ever pot his club and country are in the mix for this season.
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Winning a Six Nations Grand Slam, he reasoned, is far from easy but capturing his second Six Nations crown is an achievable goal. Add that to the double — Pro12 and Heineken Cup — he wants to win with Leinster in 2014. Yet O’Driscoll is not finished there. He declared:
I get one more crack at the All Blacks and, please God, [Ireland coach] Joe Schmidt will think of me in terms of selection… No Irish team, no national team, has ever beaten them.”
O’Driscoll needed no reminding that Munster beat a touring All Blacks side in the 1978 and allowed himself to picture the plaudits that would await Ireland if they topple them at the Aviva Stadium next month.
O’Driscoll also touched on his experiences with the Lions during the summer, including his controversial axing. He brought his gumshield along to the Third Test against Australia in case Welsh centre Jamie Roberts pulled up with a late injury. “I thought the lads would think I was mental if brought my boots,” he joked.
Ultimately, he added, thoughts of his wife, Amy Huberman, and daughter, Sadie, brought him out of a brief period of sullen reflection. He said, “You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.”
Huberman, sitting in the Late Late audience, revealed she watched O’Driscoll and Ireland take on England from her hospital bed, hours after giving birth to Sadie earlier this year. The new mum was told to keep her voice down as she was bellowing in support of her husband in a busy Holles Street maternity ward.
Steve Coogan, Ryan Tubridy, Amy Huberman and Brian O’Driscoll pose backstage at the Late Late show. Credit: RTÉ — Maxwell
Keane was a legend on the pitch. Can’t argure with his footballing ability but he’s a horrible human being. BOD is a gentleman. A real sporting icon and a phenomenal role model to all young people, especially sports orientated people.
Lacks respect for people is it? What about the huge donation he gave to the gary o neill fundraising effort stuff like that counts for nothing it seems like
BOD is a fantastic person and has a fantastic approach. As a football fan, Roy Keane thought ne how to win and speak my mind, rather than settle for second best. He might have a shite personality but he is a winner just like O’Driscoll.
We don’t know what Keane is like personally but when it comes to football Keane he was a thug and a bully. Thiswe do know because there is plenty of evidence of it.. But I think Keane wouldn’t mind this being said about him: this is the culture he was a part of and he was no different from a lot of others who acted in exactly the same way. O’Driscoll on the other hand is the complete opposite. And, as with Keane, there is no shortage of footage that shows this
Explain how you call someone who gives up enormous amount of there time to charity and helping young kids a horrible human being he might be a pure langer to some clowns like John Delaney and his muppets in the fai but what a total legend he is to those he helps as 4 O Driscoll will be some loss to irish rugby
This constant one-upmanship between football and rugby fans is a tad tedious. Keane and O’Driscoll are both legends in their respective sports and both do wonderful work for their chosen charities. To call Keane a horrible human says more about you than it does about him.
If I had to pick a football team as my life depended on it. Roy Keanes name would be the first one on the sheet.
As would Brian O’Driscoll for Rugby. Both legends, both winners.
Very simple. Keane left his country down that time in Saipan!! I’m sure BOD has had differences with his coach (as had O’Gara), but never left the side down. Keane is a typical soccer Thug!
Nice bloke O’Driscoll.
Another Pierce Brosnan,Richard Harris, Graham Norton, Dermot Morgan, Dave Allen type of guy that makes you proud that he’s Irish.
I agree his game is going to be missed. His abilities on the field are without question among the best in the world. You can see he now carries the scars of an extremely physical game.
It’s face it with the love hate cat last week .I thought it was the bottom of the barrel but now that dipstick o dicko its a new all time low for the late late shite show should have got Mr Ed would have been more entertainment than That gopshite
BOD is a total legend in the world of sport. I’m not getting involved in the whole BOD vs Roy Keane debacle that seems to have erupted!! I can only speak for myself and, in my opinion (and it is JUST my opinion so please don’t jump on me!!), he is the greatest athletes that this country has ever produced. And to cap it all, he seems to be complete gentleman. It was a great interview with some really good anecdotes. I’m really looking forward to the book and DVD that will inevitable follow his retirement. Just……legend…..
Im from ballymun. I don’t have a ballymun accent..But if someone p***** me off my accent comes out. Typical begrudgery. Hid dad worked bloody hard and sent hid kids to a good school, wasn’t Brians fault
The D4 hero bullshit was a persona that the press invented and it had nothing to do with him as a person. He’s from Clontarf but going to a D4 school gave him the accent. Not his fault. So dude, like, let’s just drop it, roight!!
Only in Ireland….. Awesome rugby player / brilliant guy – fab husband & father – great charity worker. …,.. and the miserable minority moan about his accent!!!
Absolutely agree. Hes an inspiring man. If more lads wanted to be like him instead of the types who slept in their cars last week in the hope of seeing John Gilligan get out of jail, then Irish society would be a much better place.
BOD is respected by rugby players and fans all over the world. Hes a legend and a gentleman. Ireland is lucky to have him.
Its mad. About ten years ago. Nobody really liked rugby. Then puffffff!!! The Irish bandwagon pulls into station. All aboard choo choo. Bandwagon morons get a grip. This sport isnt even a sport. Its stop start nonsense. One other thing. Compare Roy Keane bank balance to this overgrown fairy to see who made the most out of there sporting lives.
Hard to know what kind of comment to make here…
People comparing rugby to soccer is kind of like comparing karate to heavyweight boxing. People have different gifts/talents. Some don’t and never will qualify for heavyweight. Both of the guys being spoken about in this thread are absolutely outstanding at what they do. I’m a mechanical engineer and I don’t want to get on the pitch with either of them. No more than they’d want to read an engineering drawing with me.
Can people not just stop bickering about pointless things and respect them for what they’ve achieved?
BTW… I’m not long home from a club in Gothenburg but it seems to me like all the people that were complaining about the “broadcasting charge” and were going to “boycott” RTE, etc.,etc. are the very same ones who were sitting in all night watching Tubridy earlier. Now there’s a lightweight.
Why destroy the night we had a true Irish sporting Legend , and a
gentleman on the Late Late Show by posting about someone from
Cork who is certainly no gentleman.
At least Keane is honest and forthright with how he deals with people, not this fake PR shit that BOD comes out with “comment taken out of context”, really?? He knew exactly what he was doing and there was certainly no hatchet buried with a fake card, appeared a bit false.Shame Roy Keane never came out with this green jersey stuff but then again he never relied on anyone in Ireland to pay his wages or back him were he dropped.
…. and here come the UK premiership loving beer bellied soccer supporters who cheer as their idol gets a tap on the ankle and drops to the pitch as if he’s been shot by a sniper … Face contorted in “agony”. Sean O’Brien, Paul o’Connell, Brian O’Driscoll, John Hayes , Roy Keane …. One name stands out and not in a good way ! True what they say soccer is a gentlemans game played by thugs and rugby is a thugs game played by gentlemen.
Rather a Xmas card than a dileberate attempt to break your opponents leg. Don’t remember bod ever walking out of a world cup or spending the night in a cell. Like comparing chalk and cheese really. On a more childish note, bod would smash Keane in a one on one
@Ian…Rugby is an elitist sport played in a hand full of countries by fat boys who can’t play soccer. Soccer is played in every backstreet of every single nation on the planet.
Hilarious ! And soccer is for the working class then is it Che ? It must be nice as a revolutionary looking at multi millionaire premiership twenty something’s kicking a ball around for a 90 minute 0-0 game and then hopping in to their Ferrari’s / Maseratis / Range Rovers . And fat boys ???? What age are you 12 ?
“Huberman, sitting in the Late Late audience, revealed she watched O’Driscoll and Ireland take on England at Croke Park from her hospital bed, hours after giving birth to Sadie earlier this year.” Should that not say the Aviva stadium/ Lansdowne road? These simple mistakes seem to happen very regularly on the Journal!
Ronan …. wasn’t Amy just wonderful to determine it even was a rugby match …. She had just given birth – took a little more exertion and needed more medical assistance than ordering a Big Mac
Two absolute legends, we will be waiting a long time before any player from either game can be mentioned in the same breath.People seem to forget that Keane was the captain of the then biggest club on the planet, in the worlds most popular sport.
Blah blah blah. BOD is retired. Hasn’t played a rugby for anybody since July 2013 !! Nice work if you can get it. And are we ever going to stop hearing about him being dropped by Gatland for the Lions. He is not the only player to ever have been dropped. Ronan O’Gara was dropped from the Irish team, dumped from the squad and shafted by Declan Kidney. But he doesn’t moan about it at every available opportunity. And he retired with dignity and got on with his life.
Huge BOD fan, but why is he appearing on this nonsense show, surely he has other priorities in his last season as a professional? Does Amy need the publicity or something?
He’s the best rugby centre of all time and Ireland need him at his best, fully focused, and captaining the side.
Keane traveled a much tougher road to get to the top. BOD elected to stay in Ireland instead of going to France or super rugby. Therefore Keane wins on the sporting front, no question. Of course BOD is a nicer man, he stayed in the nice warm bath of Dublin his whole life.
He plays for one of the top clubs in European rugby, I’m sure if cork city were of the status of man utd then keane would have stayed in “the warm bath” of cork, both men played at the top of their game, keane just had to leave to follow the money, so I’d call it a draw actually… Keane does a little bit for charity nowadays fair play but he’s an arrogant angry man who showed no pride for his country and was a shaved headed thug on the pitch
Keane was a legend of a sport played in every single country on the planet. BOD is a legend in a sport played competitively in a handfull of countries. The six nations has to be the most boring sporting competition in the whole world. All the hullaballoo about playing the same frickin 5 teams year in year out and when we manage to beat all 5 (or 4 as it used to be) every hundred years or so it’s made out to be the greatest sporting achievement we will ever witness in our lifetimes…give me a break.
Can I ask a question? Where did the Keane and BOD comparison come from? Why not compare BOD and Dennis Irwin’s character or is it just easier have a dig at Keane? Irwin was and still is, a gentleman, on and off the pitch. Suppose it’s easier sling mud at Keane. I adore the two of them and what they”ve contributed to their sports but anybody comparing them is a fecking eejit.
Oh and you know why you might have compared them? They’re both the best this country has produced at what they do. End of. Soccer and Rugby arguments on here are, and always will be, utter tripe.
“including his controversial axing” I think you should withdraw this statement as it uses prejudicial terminology.
1) “Axing” is a pejorative term in this sense. The teams fielded during the last Lions tour included changes in every game due to injury, merit or tactical choice by the Management. Therefore saying O Driscoll was “axed” while at the same time not mentioning that the same team did not play consecutively without changes is misleading. Or implies that O Driscoll deserves preferential treatment.
2) Given the above fact that no two teams fielded by the Lions in any games had the exact same composition how is the removal of O Driscoll “Controversial”. If the Lions management had selected the exact same team for every tour game up until the final test and then dropped O Driscoll you could perhaps infer that the decision was “controversial”. However with so many changes to the makeup of the team for any individual match how could the exclusion of any player be seen as controversial.
Please correct this in the future as balanced and unbiased Journalism is the trademark of a well functioning free and fair society and with blasé nationalistic statements like this filling up the bandwidth the tone of the internet is lowered.
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An absolute legend, Roy Keane could learn a lot from him.
Bullshit statement aofs
Seriously such a nice guy and Amy is gorgeous.
Its an opinion and i have the same one..keane lacks respect for people and has a terrible attitude..all in all a bad persona.
Different people. Both legends in their own right.
Keane was a legend on the pitch. Can’t argure with his footballing ability but he’s a horrible human being. BOD is a gentleman. A real sporting icon and a phenomenal role model to all young people, especially sports orientated people.
Lacks respect for people is it? What about the huge donation he gave to the gary o neill fundraising effort stuff like that counts for nothing it seems like
Keane actually does a lot of great work for charity. He’s not very charismatic but does some great work behind the scenes.
Unfair to compare the two – One plays rugby / one played soccer. …. Both dedicated to their family and charities
I wanted to dislike her…I just couldn’t. I started following her on twitter, She comes across really funny and really nice
BOD is a fantastic person and has a fantastic approach. As a football fan, Roy Keane thought ne how to win and speak my mind, rather than settle for second best. He might have a shite personality but he is a winner just like O’Driscoll.
Why compare the two? What do you want from Roy Keane he is who he is, its what made him the ultimate competitor on the pitch.
What you want to hear and what you need to hear are often very different things.
U must be following Joe.ie on twitter!
Brian is and always was an absolute gentleman.
We don’t know what Keane is like personally but when it comes to football Keane he was a thug and a bully. Thiswe do know because there is plenty of evidence of it.. But I think Keane wouldn’t mind this being said about him: this is the culture he was a part of and he was no different from a lot of others who acted in exactly the same way. O’Driscoll on the other hand is the complete opposite. And, as with Keane, there is no shortage of footage that shows this
Explain how you call someone who gives up enormous amount of there time to charity and helping young kids a horrible human being he might be a pure langer to some clowns like John Delaney and his muppets in the fai but what a total legend he is to those he helps as 4 O Driscoll will be some loss to irish rugby
This constant one-upmanship between football and rugby fans is a tad tedious. Keane and O’Driscoll are both legends in their respective sports and both do wonderful work for their chosen charities. To call Keane a horrible human says more about you than it does about him.
Care to explain ??
If I had to pick a football team as my life depended on it. Roy Keanes name would be the first one on the sheet.
As would Brian O’Driscoll for Rugby. Both legends, both winners.
It’s easy to give your time to charity when basically you have nothing else to do, or to donate to charity when you’re filthy rich.
How did Keano get dragged into this?
Very simple. Keane left his country down that time in Saipan!! I’m sure BOD has had differences with his coach (as had O’Gara), but never left the side down. Keane is a typical soccer Thug!
I don’t recall O’Driscoll ever breaking an opposing players leg out of rage…
It’s true what’s been said, the two shouldn’t be compared
Who you talking about breaking legs give us some names and id suggest do some homework before you do
Nice bloke O’Driscoll.
Another Pierce Brosnan,Richard Harris, Graham Norton, Dermot Morgan, Dave Allen type of guy that makes you proud that he’s Irish.
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Tubridy is such a sniveling dingleberry, jobsworth in comparison.
Brian is a legend. He has been a great player for Leinster and Ireland. Once he retires he will be missed by club and country.
I agree his game is going to be missed. His abilities on the field are without question among the best in the world. You can see he now carries the scars of an extremely physical game.
He has been a joy to watch playing and a wonderful ambassador for Ireland.
Bit of an insult to half that halfwit colin farrell in the same studio with Brian ,colin fog more like , harsh ?
have that halfwit …
From munster…… He is the best rugby player this country has even produced.
I’m only raging he wasn’t born sour of the border
Darragh …. He was born. ‘Sweet’ of the border !!! Sure you have Paul O’Connell …. ;)
I love seeing positive comments between provinces. It doesn’t happen half often enough anymore so fair play to you Munster :-)
It’s face it with the love hate cat last week .I thought it was the bottom of the barrel but now that dipstick o dicko its a new all time low for the late late shite show should have got Mr Ed would have been more entertainment than That gopshite
Martin you’re a gopshite
Martin you are a dickhe@d
Martin your a hero that doesn’t just jump on the bandwagon. I salute you good sir.
BOD is a total legend in the world of sport. I’m not getting involved in the whole BOD vs Roy Keane debacle that seems to have erupted!! I can only speak for myself and, in my opinion (and it is JUST my opinion so please don’t jump on me!!), he is the greatest athletes that this country has ever produced. And to cap it all, he seems to be complete gentleman. It was a great interview with some really good anecdotes. I’m really looking forward to the book and DVD that will inevitable follow his retirement. Just……legend…..
Great Rugby player … But that D4 hero shit annoys the balls off me.
He’s a northsider
The accent …..
Clontarf is in the northside!!! Typical ‘Oirish’ comment – pull our own down
Im from ballymun. I don’t have a ballymun accent..But if someone p***** me off my accent comes out. Typical begrudgery. Hid dad worked bloody hard and sent hid kids to a good school, wasn’t Brians fault
Ben, the accent is a normal generic Dublin one. Its not skanger and its not toff either.
The D4 hero bullshit was a persona that the press invented and it had nothing to do with him as a person. He’s from Clontarf but going to a D4 school gave him the accent. Not his fault. So dude, like, let’s just drop it, roight!!
Tommy – great comment
Non- descript accent
Only in Ireland….. Awesome rugby player / brilliant guy – fab husband & father – great charity worker. …,.. and the miserable minority moan about his accent!!!
Absolutely agree. Hes an inspiring man. If more lads wanted to be like him instead of the types who slept in their cars last week in the hope of seeing John Gilligan get out of jail, then Irish society would be a much better place.
BOD is respected by rugby players and fans all over the world. Hes a legend and a gentleman. Ireland is lucky to have him.
Its mad. About ten years ago. Nobody really liked rugby. Then puffffff!!! The Irish bandwagon pulls into station. All aboard choo choo. Bandwagon morons get a grip. This sport isnt even a sport. Its stop start nonsense. One other thing. Compare Roy Keane bank balance to this overgrown fairy to see who made the most out of there sporting lives.
And les. Your from Kikdare! Shut up
Ah yeah Band wagons. Never happen with soccer. Italia 90 anyone?
It was deadly by the way.
John I think you’ve been PWNED
Have you nothing better to be doing than trolling on here? Fecking eejit
As a rugby fan I can only say it has been a privilege to watch this bloke play rugby with Leinster and Ireland over the years.
A true hero. Both on and off the pitch.
Hard to know what kind of comment to make here…
People comparing rugby to soccer is kind of like comparing karate to heavyweight boxing. People have different gifts/talents. Some don’t and never will qualify for heavyweight. Both of the guys being spoken about in this thread are absolutely outstanding at what they do. I’m a mechanical engineer and I don’t want to get on the pitch with either of them. No more than they’d want to read an engineering drawing with me.
Can people not just stop bickering about pointless things and respect them for what they’ve achieved?
BTW… I’m not long home from a club in Gothenburg but it seems to me like all the people that were complaining about the “broadcasting charge” and were going to “boycott” RTE, etc.,etc. are the very same ones who were sitting in all night watching Tubridy earlier. Now there’s a lightweight.
Well said
Sean …. Good comment but I disagree …. Sorry !!!
Two different men from two different eras, different sport and different backgrounds
I have met both and have the greatest of respect for both … Very different men and both get my respect
We not talking about keane, he’s done, Brian and Amy will make adoring parents, nice guy !!
Why destroy the night we had a true Irish sporting Legend , and a
gentleman on the Late Late Show by posting about someone from
Cork who is certainly no gentleman.
At least Keane is honest and forthright with how he deals with people, not this fake PR shit that BOD comes out with “comment taken out of context”, really?? He knew exactly what he was doing and there was certainly no hatchet buried with a fake card, appeared a bit false.Shame Roy Keane never came out with this green jersey stuff but then again he never relied on anyone in Ireland to pay his wages or back him were he dropped.
bang on !
I agree with you 100%. There is only thing that BOD loves more than playing rugby and that is the sound of his own voice
…. and here come the UK premiership loving beer bellied soccer supporters who cheer as their idol gets a tap on the ankle and drops to the pitch as if he’s been shot by a sniper … Face contorted in “agony”. Sean O’Brien, Paul o’Connell, Brian O’Driscoll, John Hayes , Roy Keane …. One name stands out and not in a good way ! True what they say soccer is a gentlemans game played by thugs and rugby is a thugs game played by gentlemen.
Rather a Xmas card than a dileberate attempt to break your opponents leg. Don’t remember bod ever walking out of a world cup or spending the night in a cell. Like comparing chalk and cheese really. On a more childish note, bod would smash Keane in a one on one
@Ian…Rugby is an elitist sport played in a hand full of countries by fat boys who can’t play soccer. Soccer is played in every backstreet of every single nation on the planet.
Hilarious ! And soccer is for the working class then is it Che ? It must be nice as a revolutionary looking at multi millionaire premiership twenty something’s kicking a ball around for a 90 minute 0-0 game and then hopping in to their Ferrari’s / Maseratis / Range Rovers . And fat boys ???? What age are you 12 ?
“Huberman, sitting in the Late Late audience, revealed she watched O’Driscoll and Ireland take on England at Croke Park from her hospital bed, hours after giving birth to Sadie earlier this year.” Should that not say the Aviva stadium/ Lansdowne road? These simple mistakes seem to happen very regularly on the Journal!
Ronan …. wasn’t Amy just wonderful to determine it even was a rugby match …. She had just given birth – took a little more exertion and needed more medical assistance than ordering a Big Mac
I never said anything about Amy. Just the fact the journal mis-prints things like this all the time.
Ronan that’s awful ….. Did you see if they had any vacancies …. Maybe it’s someone like you – is what the Journal needs
Two absolute legends, we will be waiting a long time before any player from either game can be mentioned in the same breath.People seem to forget that Keane was the captain of the then biggest club on the planet, in the worlds most popular sport.
Blah blah blah. BOD is retired. Hasn’t played a rugby for anybody since July 2013 !! Nice work if you can get it. And are we ever going to stop hearing about him being dropped by Gatland for the Lions. He is not the only player to ever have been dropped. Ronan O’Gara was dropped from the Irish team, dumped from the squad and shafted by Declan Kidney. But he doesn’t moan about it at every available opportunity. And he retired with dignity and got on with his life.
Actually his last game was september 27th, less than a month ago.
That is correct. Apologies for the error
Roy keane the man that admitted he went out to break a fellow professionals leg!!
I really don’t think you can compare him to Brian.
I don’t remember seeing baby Sadie?
I’d prefer amy to Brian but that’s just me :)
Met him once by pure coincidence in new york city .. the dude is just like you got in that interview unassuming and a regular guy.. class act
Legend
Huge BOD fan, but why is he appearing on this nonsense show, surely he has other priorities in his last season as a professional? Does Amy need the publicity or something?
He’s the best rugby centre of all time and Ireland need him at his best, fully focused, and captaining the side.
Keane traveled a much tougher road to get to the top. BOD elected to stay in Ireland instead of going to France or super rugby. Therefore Keane wins on the sporting front, no question. Of course BOD is a nicer man, he stayed in the nice warm bath of Dublin his whole life.
He plays for one of the top clubs in European rugby, I’m sure if cork city were of the status of man utd then keane would have stayed in “the warm bath” of cork, both men played at the top of their game, keane just had to leave to follow the money, so I’d call it a draw actually… Keane does a little bit for charity nowadays fair play but he’s an arrogant angry man who showed no pride for his country and was a shaved headed thug on the pitch
Keane was a legend of a sport played in every single country on the planet. BOD is a legend in a sport played competitively in a handfull of countries. The six nations has to be the most boring sporting competition in the whole world. All the hullaballoo about playing the same frickin 5 teams year in year out and when we manage to beat all 5 (or 4 as it used to be) every hundred years or so it’s made out to be the greatest sporting achievement we will ever witness in our lifetimes…give me a break.
Can I ask a question? Where did the Keane and BOD comparison come from? Why not compare BOD and Dennis Irwin’s character or is it just easier have a dig at Keane? Irwin was and still is, a gentleman, on and off the pitch. Suppose it’s easier sling mud at Keane. I adore the two of them and what they”ve contributed to their sports but anybody comparing them is a fecking eejit.
Oh and you know why you might have compared them? They’re both the best this country has produced at what they do. End of. Soccer and Rugby arguments on here are, and always will be, utter tripe.
“including his controversial axing” I think you should withdraw this statement as it uses prejudicial terminology.
1) “Axing” is a pejorative term in this sense. The teams fielded during the last Lions tour included changes in every game due to injury, merit or tactical choice by the Management. Therefore saying O Driscoll was “axed” while at the same time not mentioning that the same team did not play consecutively without changes is misleading. Or implies that O Driscoll deserves preferential treatment.
2) Given the above fact that no two teams fielded by the Lions in any games had the exact same composition how is the removal of O Driscoll “Controversial”. If the Lions management had selected the exact same team for every tour game up until the final test and then dropped O Driscoll you could perhaps infer that the decision was “controversial”. However with so many changes to the makeup of the team for any individual match how could the exclusion of any player be seen as controversial.
Please correct this in the future as balanced and unbiased Journalism is the trademark of a well functioning free and fair society and with blasé nationalistic statements like this filling up the bandwidth the tone of the internet is lowered.