Gatland a dirty word as he drops BOD

As seismic moments in Irish sport go, the decision to drop Brian O’Driscoll from the Lions squad ranks up there with Roy Keane being sent home from the World Cup in Saipan.

Gatland a dirty word as he drops BOD

For Lions coach Warren Gatland he has now replaced Thierry Henry as the object of every Irish person’s derision.

The man himself or BOD as he is more commonly known on Twitter, was typically dignified in his reaction to being dropped. He simply tweeted: “Obviously totally gutted at being left out for deciding Test but all efforts go into preparing the boys to see it through. #seaofred”, before later adding in response to a tweet that it was “hard to take”.

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