Nightmare score, but Manawatu dreams are still alive

Manawatu 6 Lions 109

It was four nights on from the controversial first Test against the New Zealand All Blacks, when Brian O'Driscoll's treatment at the hands of captain Tana Umaga and hooker Keven Mealamu cast a shadow over the home side's brilliant demolition job of the tourists.

Mealamu also saw his hand bitten by Lions lock Danny Grewcock and the Leicester man was handed out a two-month ban for his troubles, ending his tour. Since then claim and couter-claim had sallied back and forth between the two camps as to who had done what and who had been dealt an injustice.