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Irish great Brian O’Driscoll has needled James Horwill by calling the Wallabies skipper “a lucky boy” after he was cleared of a rucking charge.
Centre O’Driscoll has been the first British and Irish Lions player or official to openly comment about Horwill’s escape from his first Test citing.
The second-rower was charged with stamping the head of Lions lock Alun Wyn Jones, who required stitches after the tourists’ 23-21 win at Suncorp Stadium.
“He’s a lucky boy. He knows it himself,” former Lions captain O’Driscoll told HSBC’s Lions Weekly.
“Whether it was intentional or not there’s only one person who knows that.”
The Lions were known to be unhappy at the result of Sunday night’s judicial hearing but forwards coach Graham Rowntree refused to comment when he fronted the media on Monday.
“You get these rulings on occasion and you get the rub of the green but it doesn’t change our attitude,” said O’Driscoll, ahead of his 134th Test appearance on Saturday night in Melbourne.
“We want to go out and play the best Aussie team that we can do and he’s definitely part of that.”
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