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Bradley Davies has revealed he suffered a three-day memory loss after the shocking forearm smash from All Blacks hooker Andrew Hore that put him in hospital.

The Wales lock, speaking publicly for the first time since the first-minute incident at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday, admitted he cannot remember anything from the two days before the third autumn Test, let alone the day of the game itself.

Davies also revealed the under-fire New Zealander had phoned and text him to apologise over the incident, and he insisted he holds no grudges going forward.

The Blues star was taken to hospital with serious concussion following the off-the-ball incident just 30 seconds into the All Blacks’ 33-10 win at the Millennium Stadium.

On Wednesday, Hore was banned for five weeks at a disciplinary hearing in Bristol after Scottish official Professor Lorne Crerar was persuaded Hore had not intended to strike Davies in the head.

This is a punishment which was considered lenient by many especially after it emerged the hooker will only miss two competitive games, with three Super 15 pre-season friendlies taken into account during his suspension.

The initial ban was reduced from eight weeks because of Hore’s good character, guilty plea and his remorse towards Davies.

Speaking of his remarkable memory loss, Davies said: “My first reaction when I saw it on the television replays afterwards was ‘Oh, that is what has happened.

“I felt very groggy for a while afterwards.

“My last memory before the game was last Wednesday and my mind has pretty much gone blank since then.

“I was in college doing a plumbing course and I cut my finger with a hacksaw.

“That was the last thing I can remember.

“I was actually only out cold for a couple of seconds on Saturday, but when I came to, I had lost all my short-term memory.

“That was strange because that had never happened to me before.

“I have been knocked out loads of time, but nothing like this has happened.

“It is not nice waking up and not knowing what has gone on.

“It also dented my pride a bit that I lasted less than a minute!

“After the game I was gone and I did not have a clue what was going on.

“Apparently I was asking the same question over and over again!

“On Sunday I was still a bit fragile and did not make much sense.”

The Blues lock insisted he now wants closure on the incident, adding: “It was a bit naughty, but he caught me a cracker and that is rugby,” said Davies.

“I don’t think he tried to knock me out.

“It is just one of those things. I got in his way and he caught me flush on the jaw.

“I know what he is going through because I got banned last season for seven weeks and missed the Six Nations and Grand Slam for a stupid off-the-ball incident in the opening match in Ireland.

“People ask you why you do it.

“But it is hard to explain and you can’t answer them because you don’t know yourself.

“I am not sure how they branded the ban because I had a 14-week suspension that was halved to seven which I thought was harsh at the time.

“But the incident has gone and I hold no grudges.

“He has called and texted me to apologise and I would like to leave it there.”

Davies admitted he was concerned for his family and heavily-pregnant girlfriend who had to watch him lying unconscious on the Millennium Stadium turf.

“I am all right and I have my health,” he added.

“The more difficult thing is what my family had to go through.

“My girlfriend is more than 30 weeks pregnant and she was a little bit nervous in the stands.

“When people who care about you see you lying out cold on the floor like that, it is not very nice.

“I was OK because I did not know what was going on.”

Davies will miss Saturday’s showdown with Australia and is in doubt for the Blues' Heineken Cup double-header against Montpellier.

But the 25-year-old admitted he could struggle to pass the medical examination.

“Hopefully I will be back next week, but I have to keep passing these knockout tests,” he added.

“It is tough enough when you are normal, never mind when you have had a bang on the head!

“There are all different questions and you have balance and do memory tests and recite the months of the year backwards. That is difficult enough when you are fine.”

But Davies admitted he had learned an even more valuable lesson from this affair after paying the price for deliberately running in front of Hore.

“I am not running the line of opposition players anymore!” he joked.

“Our kicking coach Neil Jenkins tells us when you are running back when a kick goes up to try and follow the line of the opposition players.

“But after this, I won’t be doing that again!”