Gatland: I followed head not heart axing BOD

Warren Gatland last night said there is no room for sentiment in professional rugby but he reiterated that the decision to drop Brian O’Driscoll for the final Lions test in Australia was one of the toughest calls he had to make.

Gatland stressed axing O’Driscoll was one of several extremely tough calls he had to make and pointed out he had excluded coach Shaun Edwards, who he had worked with at Wasps and Wales for a decade, from the tour.

Gatland, who appeared on The Late Late Show last night, said yesterday on Galway Bay FM that leaving Edwards behind showed he wasn’t afraid to make the hard calls.