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13th November 2018
08:58am GMT

Umaga branded O'Driscoll a 'sook' following the incident, which is a 'cry-baby' in New Zealand slang, but both men claim they have buried the hatchet some 13 years after the incident.
"Myself and Tana have met on multiple occasions over the course of the last 10 years and we put to bed what happened in 2005," O'Driscoll said on Baz and Andrew's House of Rugby ahead of the Guinness series. "Yes it was something that both of us would love to change but ultimately that's been parked a long time ago but for public consumption this is probably a good thing to genuinely show that we're over it and everyone else should be too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTVhckB3juk
"It's hard because at different times with the Lions tour last year it came back up again, I get asked it at every Q&A that I've ever done. It's probably the most regularly asked question so ultimately there's no getting away from it but from our perspective we're cool."Umaga claims he was the victim of a media campaign following the illegal tackle and said in his book that O'Driscoll attacked his character in the most direct and damning terms and kept going on about the fact that he hadn't rung him to say sorry.
"Hindsight is a great thing and if we thought about it a lot earlier we would have made sure that we rang a lot of people but we connected every time we bumped into each other," the former All Blacks captain said. "We probably needed a crowd just to make it a bit more public and prove that we had put it behind us."
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