Tom Savage
The main moral of the story at the end of Ireland’s 27-3 brutalising of Scotland on Saturday was, in my opinion, “don’t give Joe Schmidt nine months to prepare for…
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I can’t imagine the pressure sitting on Joe Schmidt’s shoulders this week. Four years of preparation, squad building and system management boils down to 43 days of rugby and seven…
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The hiring of Graham Rowntree and Stephen Larkham is no guarantee of success. But if you were looking for a way to push Munster on from recent losses, the hiring of…
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The margins between a line break that leads to a try and a phase that ends in a ruck reset are smaller than you’d think. All it takes is one…
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Sport, like life, is a wheel that you don’t know you’re on until you get crushed at the bottom. Actually no, that isn’t quite true. Sport is actually like real…
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It’s easy to draw attention if you don’t have any standards for yourself. Don’t believe me? Just strip naked and start loudly abusing passers by in your local shopping centre…
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“Where do you see Wycherley’s future – lock or blindside? If Cloete is injured POM could move to 7 to allow him (or Botha) to 6. “If he does play…
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An interview with Niall Scannell in the Irish Independent (April 2017) featured the above little nugget of rugby advice. Scannell was detailing the chat that he had with Eusebio Guinazu…
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I was delighted to see the emergence of some young Munster players into the national rugby consciousness over the course of the U20 Six Nations. What Munster fan wouldn’t? The…
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There was one name trending on Irish Twitter during Ireland u20’s win over France and subsequent Six Nations Championship win – Craig Casey. I know Twitter tailors your trends to…
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