OUTRAGEOUS

It’s taken me a few days to come down from my high horse and put all the toys back in the pram but I feel you ought to know the outcome of the RBS VI Nations Board award for Player of the Tournament. In the end, it went to Brian O’Driscoll (BOD). Now, I don’t deny that BOD is quite a good player BUT he does tend to bend the rules slightly (I would never dream of using the word ‘cheat’) and this Tournament was certainly not one of his better performances. However, according to the website: “fans were asked to select their dream team each weekend, and [apparently] over 10,000 votes were cast for O'Driscoll throughout the championship.” Well of course they were! Who wouldn’t want him in their DREAM TEAM, doh, stupid?

Even the Irish Independent said: “O'Driscoll must have been more than a little surprised when he was named Player of the Six Nations tournament. Even at centre, I thought Mirco Bergamasco outshone him for overall impact.”

Had people been asked, more relevantly: ‘Who was your Player of the Tournament this year?’, I doubt VERY MUCH that BOD would have appeared high on anybody’s list. Grrr.

Anyway, VI Nations over now so end of story. News from the Paris front is that Mauro is still injured, Mirco had a good-ish game (he's probably tired, poor lamb) and SF won by a whisker against Castres, so they are now third in the Top 14.

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