O’Driscoll so proud of Thomond tigers

HE was battered, he was bruised, but on a night when another slice of history was denied only by a harsh call from referee Roman Poite, Mick O’Driscoll couldn’t have been more proud of his men.

“It’s a very disappointed changing-room at the moment. We possibly deserved more out of the game, but to be beaten by two points by arguably the best side in the world, with a team that was missing ten or 11 guys, you’d probably take it. But it was very disappointing all the same.”

The penalty which led to the match winning try was the killer. Almost on the halfway line, the ball seemed to have eased out of a New Zealand ruck when the skipper got boot to ball, in behind the All-Black backs.