a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j9kHpJs1w6M/TdFkz1uokEI/AAAAAAAAFSs/fQgVlE8PTtY/s1600/brian-o%2527driscoll-chris-henry.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j9kHpJs1w6M/TdFkz1uokEI/AAAAAAAAFSs/fQgVlE8PTtY/s400/brian-o%2527driscoll-chris-henry.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607373852811759682" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Brian O'Driscoll is fairly lucky that his arms aren't an inch longer, as he appeared to swing a punch at loose forward Chris Henry in Leinster's Magners League semi final against Ulster on Friday night. /spanbr /br /Leinster, who came out 18-3 winners at the RDS, will wait to see if O'Driscoll will be available for their Heineken Cup Final against Northampton Saints this coming weekend. While he seems to have avoided a citing, there is still an injury cloud hovering over the talisman centre.br /br /O'Driscoll lashed out at Henry early in the first half as the two of them got in a bit of a tangle while competing to get to the breakdown. The Ireland captain's quick left seemed to only glance Henry, with no damage being done and play continuing.br /br /Referee George Clancy was however notified by one of his touchline assistants, and had a bit of a chat with the players, telling them too cool down and direct their energy into the game.br /br /Leinster have not heard from the citing commissioner, so O'Driscoll, injury worries aside, looks to have dodged a bullet with that one. With events taking place elsewhere this past weekend, it does make one wonder if players should be punished according to intent or outcome.br /br /His punch could easily have landed, while Manu Tuilagi's three might have been poorly aimed glancing blows with far less consequence. As it stands, Tuilagi is facing a hefty suspension, while O'Driscoll, who by all means looked like he lost his cool, is free to play.br /br /It's an interesting one. I suppose you could say that had Tuilagi swung just once, and barely connected, it would hardly have been discussed, giving the entire incident a different complexion. Maybe his good aim, landing three from three, is his worst enemy right now.br /br /Whatever the case, Leinster's fans will be breathing a sigh of relief that O'Driscoll may have actually held back at the last split second. Either that, or maybe he simply mistimed it.br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ktG2aOEwNgk?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ktG2aOEwNgk?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span0:40/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-6800287933758795533?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divpa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/o7Y67BcnOohNNXj8uYYJ4FghoLc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/o7Y67BcnOohNNXj8uYYJ4FghoLc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/o7Y67BcnOohNNXj8uYYJ4FghoLc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/o7Y67BcnOohNNXj8uYYJ4FghoLc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=LinNd2Rotuw:N60c1KYJ5zw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/LinNd2Rotuw" height="1" width="1"/ More...