Category Archives: Ulster

Down the Blind Side, episode 14

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Brendan Fanning

http://downtheblindside.com/episode-14/

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Shorts

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Brendan Fanning

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 →

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Kidney call puts him in make or break territory

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Brendan Fanning

  We used to look at the decision in 2008 to run with Denis Hurley and Tomas O’Leary ahead of Shaun Payne and Peter Stringer for Munster as the high water mark for Declan Kidney’s capacity to surprise. And then … Continue reading →

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Healy not looking at lengthy sentence

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Brendan Fanning

One thing we’ve learned from ugly optics on the rugby field is that what you see is not always what you get. So the seemingly awful stamp of Cian Healy on the ankle of Dan Cole was actually not as … Continue reading →

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Bent setback needs some explaining

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Brendan Fanning

You many wonder why the storm that greeted Michael Bent’s arrival two months ago has withered to a whimper now that he has slipped off the radar. All depends on your agenda I guess. And we all have an agenda. … Continue reading →

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IRFU going wrong way about growing their own

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Brendan Fanning

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 →

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