The Irish Examiner had a mad story yesterday which tells the tale of how Alf Stewart was left to console Amy Huberman and Brian O'Driscoll's sister after news broke that BOD was dropped for the final Lions match against Australia in 2013.
Ray Meagher - who plays Stewart in Home and Away - was in Cork over the weekend and he told the crowd at a Q&A about how Huberman and Brian's sister were on the set of the Aussie soap the day the news broke:
Amy (Huberman) and Brian O’Driscoll’s sister came out to the set the day that whatshisname, the Welsh coach from New Zealand, Gatland, dropped Brian from the third test. They were on the set for a long time and they were devastated. I couldn’t get over it either.
Meagher was quite the rugby player in his day and gave his two cents worth to the people of Cork on whether BOD deserved to be dropped:
I reckon Brian should have been there on merit, absolutely and utterly, but you could have put me in there and the Lions would have won that day. Just to cap his career, he’d earn't that. Even if he was the second-best centre, which he wasn’t, he was the number one pick for that spot on form.
It seems he hasn't much time for 'whathisname' Warren Gatland over the whole issue, citing the Australian reaction: 'people were saying: what’s up with the guy, is he mad?'
You can read his full rugby tale on the Examiner's website here, along with the story of he actually once had a trial with the Wallabies.
