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No bad blood: O'Donnell May 5, 2010
THREE years after the notorious ''wishbone'' tackle that sidelined him for 10 months, Luke O'Donnell insists there is no bad blood between him and Wests Tigers pair Bryce Gibbs and Liam Fulton, his City Origin teammates this week.
Gibbs, Fulton and former Tigers forward Bronson Harrison were the perpetrators of the tackle, which ripped most of O'Donnell's hamstring tendons from his pelvis after his foot was pulled and twisted in a tackle.
However, O'Donnell, coming off a three-match suspension sustained in a match against the Tigers last month for a grapple tackle on Beau Ryan, said ''there was no issue at all'' as he joined Gibbs and Fulton (the City 18th man) in camp in Port Macquarie.
''It doesn't do me any favours to be worrying about things that happened three years ago,'' the 29-year-old back-rower said.
''I'm back in the City side and everything has been pretty positive, aside from the little suspension I'm just coming off.''
O'Donnell scoffs at suggestions he can lose his cool against his former club.
''I got suspended for repeated infringements and I've since spoken to [referees' coach] Robert Finch and he went through a couple of things with me. I'm just focused on trying to get back in the NSW side.''
Chris Barrett
THREE years after the notorious ''wishbone'' tackle that sidelined him for 10 months, Luke O'Donnell insists there is no bad blood between him and Wests Tigers pair Bryce Gibbs and Liam Fulton, his City Origin teammates this week.
Gibbs, Fulton and former Tigers forward Bronson Harrison were the perpetrators of the tackle, which ripped most of O'Donnell's hamstring tendons from his pelvis after his foot was pulled and twisted in a tackle.
However, O'Donnell, coming off a three-match suspension sustained in a match against the Tigers last month for a grapple tackle on Beau Ryan, said ''there was no issue at all'' as he joined Gibbs and Fulton (the City 18th man) in camp in Port Macquarie.
''It doesn't do me any favours to be worrying about things that happened three years ago,'' the 29-year-old back-rower said.
''I'm back in the City side and everything has been pretty positive, aside from the little suspension I'm just coming off.''
O'Donnell scoffs at suggestions he can lose his cool against his former club.
''I got suspended for repeated infringements and I've since spoken to [referees' coach] Robert Finch and he went through a couple of things with me. I'm just focused on trying to get back in the NSW side.''
Chris Barrett