He is known for not being afraid to air his opinions, whether on the rugby field or not.
Indeed, it almost landed Johnny Sexton in a spot of bother with Richard Hibbard on a Lions tour back in the day when he upbraided the then Ospreys player in the manner of a schoolteacher telling off a disobedient child. Hibbard had made the mistake of messing up one of the plays.
For a moment, time seemed to stand still, some of those present at the incident in 2013 would later recall, with the tough, abrasive Welsh hooker unused to being publicly scalded. “It takes a brave man to do that, because Hibbs has a short fuse and could easily have knocked him out,” Adam Jones remembered in his book, Bomb. “I could see his eyes narrowing into a stare, which is a sure-fire sign that the red mist is descending.”
