O’Driscoll Wins Award for third time!
Brian O’Driscoll has won Texaco Sportstars Rugby Award for the third time (2000, 2002 and now).
A release from the awards panel said:
“The award goes to Leinster and Ireland captain Brian O’Driscoll. During a hugely disappointing World Cup, O’Driscoll spoke about the need for players to attend to their own games and that the collective would follow. He certainly took his own words to heart, scoring Ireland’s first try in France in the game against Namibia.
“In the do-or-die battles against France and Argentina, he broached the standards he expects of himself, particular in the Argentina game when he scored one try, his 31st for his country, and made the other.
“During the Six Nations he missed one match, against France, and it was the only one that Ireland lost. He has guided his province, Leinster, and country, with distinction in the last 12 months and while the results in France will have been bitterly disappointing, he led by deed as well as by word.”
Recent winners of the Texaco rugby award have been:
2002: Brian O’Driscoll
2003: Paul O’Connell
2004: Gordon D’Arcy
2005: Trevor Brennan
2006: Denis Leamy
Congrats! again for Brian O’Driscoll. This Ireland captain has been a tremendous gift to their team. he is winning matches for them fro some time now. As you Ireland lost their only outing against France in his absence.