Mauger insists O’Driscoll incident was ‘accidental’

ALL BLACKS centre Aaron Mauger believes the incident which ended Brian O’Driscoll’s Lions tour as “a pure accident.”

Lions players and management are still fuming about the double spear-tackle by All Blacks skipper Tana Umaga and hooker Keven Mealamu which put O’Driscoll in hospital with a dislocated shoulder.

And there was a reminder of Saturday’s incident when Umaga ran out for the All Blacks’ public training session at the Basin Reserve in Wellington yesterday. As the New Zealanders trained, a banner was unfurled on the terraces, proclaiming ‘Shame Tana - Cheap Shot.’