Tom Savage

Tom Savage: Huge pressure on professional athletes to secure their future

By Tom Savage / February 5, 2021 /

When I was a teenager, I thought the world operated on a set of rules. You do well in the Leaving Cert and that means you can go to college.…

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Tom Savage: When you’re the goalkicker, the pressure hits different

By Tom Savage / January 27, 2021 /

Tom Savage looks at the scrutiny that goalkickers face and the lessons Munster and JJ Hanrahan can take from the Leinster defeat.

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Tom Savage: Leinster will be a big challenge but this Munster team can beat them

By Tom Savage / January 20, 2021 /

“Right now, this is my rival, this is the person that beat me. So it immediately makes him stand out above everyone else. Jon Jones’ been going on this whole…

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Balancing The Needs Of The Now Versus Long Term Player Development

By Tom Savage / January 13, 2021 /

I spoke last week about how Ulster needed to have a look at bridging the gap between someone they feel is their future – David McCann – and their immediate…

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Munster have the young assets to ‘rebalance’ squad and maximise performance

By Tom Savage / January 6, 2021 /

Everything is inevitable after it happens. You look back at Munster’s glorious strech from, say, the 21st of January 2006 to the 24th of May 2008 where they picked up…

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Tom Savage: Healy rumours highlight need for smart investment from Munster

By Tom Savage / December 10, 2020 /

Tom Savage of Three Red Kings looks at the young talent coming through at Munster and the need to hold onto them

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“Dumping Results On One Player’s Error Isn’t Just Cruel, It’s Not Even Analysis”

By Tom Savage / November 20, 2020 /

Being a pro rugby player is class. You get paid to train, push some iron around and then play in games where, if you’re lucky, you’ll get to do cool…

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Tom Savage: Ireland need to learn from their mistakes or face full reset

By Tom Savage / November 4, 2020 /

Ireland’s recent loss in Paris felt especially disappointing. Not just because it was an 8 point loss when a 7 point win would have secured the championship – although that…

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Personal responsibility on players to keep the show on the road

By Tom Savage / October 28, 2020 /

We’ve got a lot of rugby ahead of us over the next few months. There’s Super Saturday in the Six Nations, the PRO14, the very Pro Evolution 5 sounding Autumn…

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“Form isn’t just temporary – I don’t think it exists”-Larmour, Zebo and form

By Tom Savage / October 21, 2020 /

Even before his unfortunate dislocated shoulder suffered away to Benetton, there were rumblings about Jordan Larmour and his “form” coming into the restarted Six Nations Championship as Ireland’s incumbent fullback…

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