Brian O'Driscoll revealed all about 'Gidley' following his side's victory over Brive © Getty Images

Brian O'Driscoll talks to David Kelly and reveals the inspiration behind Shane Horgan's amazing flip pass against Brive in The Irish Independent.

"They call it the 'Gidley'. Not quite a secret weapon but all the same a ploy requiring audacious skill and dead-eyed cohesion. Shane Horgan's sumptuous flicked pass to Brian O'Driscoll in the dying moments of Saturday's breathless finish against Brive became the latest adornment to a back-line's box of tricks which seems almost everlasting. "A tribute to Aussie rugby league star Matt Gidley - a former team-mate of Ireland's World Cup flop Brian Carney - Leinster's erstwhile backs coach David Knox introduced the trick into the squad's training drills and the star-studded back-line haven't stopped delivering since. "We have a little competition to see who can get the most in a season," revealed the Ireland captain yesterday. "Perhaps feeling the need to avoid publicising the private competitive edges which have driven his squad to the summit of the European game, O'Driscoll didn't volunteer the possessor of the 'maillot jaune' in terms of doing the 'Gidley'."