Category Archives: Schools rugby

Shorts

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

MCKENZIE TOO HOT TO TROT When you see odds of 1/2 lobbed on someone’s head you don’t so much infer a hot favourite as a race that’s already been run. And the winner is Ewen McKenzie? Eh, not so fast … Continue reading →

Posted in Australia, Autumn Internationals, Brendan Fanning, British and Irish Lions, Irish Rugby, Munster, Munster Rugby, Saracens, Schools rugby, Sports Comment, Ulster, Ulster Rugby | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

IRFU going wrong way about growing their own

Posted on December 24, 2011 by

It’s not just turkeys who get bad news in Christmas Week. If you are running professional rugby in any of Leinster, Ulster or Munster then, like the birds who live in big barns with the light on all the time, … Continue reading →

Posted in Heineken Cup, Irish Rugby, Italy rugby, Leinster Rugby, Munster, Munster Rugby, Rugby Opinion, Schools rugby, Ulster, Ulster Rugby | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Drug testers heading for the school gates

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

Back in the mid 1980s I remember being involved in coaching one of Leinster’s less serious rugby schools in a cup quarter-final against one of Leinster’s super serious schools. The result went the way you would expect. What struck me … Continue reading →

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