Thursday 4 July 2013 13:25, UK
Alun-Wyn Jones says he will have no problem with James Horwill when they line up as rival captains on Saturday.
O'Driscoll offered his congratulations to 27-year-old Jones after training in glorious sunshine at Noosa Dolphins Rugby Club today, with the squad departing for Sydney tomorrow. "He just congratulated me, simple as that," Jones said. "He is very professional in his manner and just got on with the job in training. Everyone has done the same. We haven't got a lot of time to waste now. "We've had a couple of days off, and we've got three days, really, that is going to set the tone in the final Test, three days which are going to give us a Test series win hopefully off the back of a seven-week tour." Jones played in all three Tests on the 2009 Lions tour to South Africa. They lost the series 2-1, but were undone by a last-gasp Morne Steyn penalty in game two that gave the Springboks an unassailable advantage. "You can't carry hangovers like that for too long in sport because it comes back to bite you on the backside," Jones added. "Don't forget, going into the third Test we had already lost the series anyway, so it's now a different timeline. We are going into the third game with everything to play for. "The way the talk has been going around the camp it doesn't feel there is necessarily a lot of pressure on us. Sometimes that's a good place to be, sometimes it's a bad place to be. We will find out on Saturday."
