Brian O'Driscoll writes in the Telegraph this morning about the Lions tour victory in Australia and what it meant to him.
He also elabourates on the thought process which he went though when Warren Gatland and Rob Howley told him that he was being dropped.
I got the tap on the shoulder on Wednesday morning when I was at the coffee machine. Gats and Rob Howley wanted to have a quiet word. I realised a quiet word in the meeting room was not a good sign. They were not about to ask me to be captain. That would have been said to me there and then. It was a blow.
Having seen others react in the past to being dropped has given me an insight into how to respond and behave properly. I have seen guys who are dead men walking on tours when they have not been selected and you cannot be that person. The tour is not about you. For you, the decision is huge. For everyone else, you are just one component of it. You deal with your own disappointment in your own way, behind closed doors but publicly you have to realise that the bigger picture is not your selection, it is about winning the series. It is about doing the right thing for everyone, setting the tone around the lads, doing what needs to be done at training, trying to be positive when you have a big inner disappointment.
