Which team did you play for?
Clearly, you don’t read much of Flash’s posts. He’s bullshitting again.
For clarification, the reason I brought BOD into the discussion yesterday (or whenever) was because I heard a discussion about Henson on 5live Rugby Special when his latest cock-up in Toulon had come to light. The chaps on there used BOD as a comparison because he and Henson are of a similar age, of the same generation and came to prominence at a similar time.
Their inference that when we look back on the two of them in years to come, that only one of them will be remembered as a great player.
O’Driscoll will never win a world cup; it’s fair to say that nobody in an Ireland shirt will ever win a world cup so there’s not much point using that as a marker. He has kept himself fit (the odd injuries aside), won a Grand Slam (even if according to bullheart, it was only a “good” team), captained Leinster to Heineken Cup glory and a few recent hammerings of Munster, a team to which they’d played second fiddle in Ireland for a long time. He’s won games almost single-handedly for Ireland when they’ve struggled.
I’m not putting O’Driscoll up there with some of the legends of the game, but he’d have his position in most international teams of the last decade were he available to any of them for selection.
Labelling any player as “great” is always putting oneself on shaky ground.
He’s certainly one of the best six nations players of the professional era – probably the best centre of the last decade. He’s also a nice guy, a model professional and I’d be happy for any kid to look up to him as a model of how to be a fantastic rugby player.
