Just one Ireland player makes Opta’s team of the November Series
Well deserved. The well-renowned sports stats platform, Opta, have released their team of the Autumn Nations Series, based off of their Opta Index, which uses a number of key factors to objectively score a players’ performances in each game. The breakdown of the team is as follows: 4 England, 3 South Africa, 2 New Zealand, […]
4 months ago
Ryan Baird makes the most touching and personal of Peter O’Mahony tributes
“I cherish playing with him.” While the likes of Caelan Doris, Jack Conan and James Lowe were on the corporate beat, Peter O’Mahony was finishing up his captain’s media duties and the rest of the Ireland squad partied, Ryan Baird stepped forward and took one for the squad. The versatile Leinster forward started the home […]
2 years ago
The 10 brightest prospects in Irish rugby
This crop of lads will provide many of the players that feature in the next World Cup(s). Ireland went into the 2023 World Cup with a vastly experienced squad. The average age of the Irish rugby squad was 29.4 years-old with only two teams, South Africa and Samoa, boasting greater maturity. It was all going […]
2 years ago
The most fascinating player in Ireland’s World Cup training squad also has the highest ceiling
“There’s probably someone in the building here who is better than you at pretty much everything.” For the whole time Ryan Baird is talking with us, he shivers away, tries to rub some life back into his limbs and muses on all subjects from fishing, defensive lines, tennis and swapping the life of a rugby […]
2 years ago
Ryan Baird distraught as he suffers brutal shoulder injury against Leicester
LEINSTER 55-24 LEICESTER TIGERS Ryan Baird lasted just 22 minutes of Leinster’s Champions Cup quarter final clash against Leicester Tigers at Aviva Stadium. The 23-year-old had been in fantastic form. With Leinster leading 14-3 after two converted Garry Ringrose tries, met by a Tigers penalty, the home side were rollicking toward the last four. We […]
3 years ago
Ryan Baird smashing All Black legend’s Bronco record is only the beginning
“Ah, stop!” Most Leinster and Irish rugby supporters have been eagerly anticipating Ryan Baird taking his game to another level ever since he first exploded on to the scene in 2020 and announced his intentions with a hat-trick against Glasgow Warriors. Baird made his Leinster debut at the tail-end of the 2018/19 season but made […]
3 years ago