“It would look like someone has ransacked your room.” Finding the perfect roommate for away trips is not an exact science and there can be several botched experiments before a good match is found. That is why so many players opt to team up and will not be parted. Younger squad players are often roomed […]

5 years ago

Desperate news for the Leinster hooker who, at 33, is most likely competing at his last World Cup. News has emerged from Japan that Sean Cronin’s World Cup is over. The BBC is reporting that Cronin picked up an injury in training and that he is due to return home in the coming days. Cronin’s […]

6 years ago

World Cup warm-up game or not, warm weather, mild weather or cold weather training camp, heavy loading, pre-loading or simply stuck on game loading… if you concede 57 points to England there’s going to be major questions asked. Ireland were pummeled by England last weekend in their second World Cup warm-up game and missed 37 […]

7 years ago

Ireland won just 9 of 15 line-outs during the 57-15 thrashing to England on Saturday. The Irish line-out was a disaster with missed throws, stolen balls and fumbled takes leaving Joe Schmidt’s side with a lot of issues to address at the set-piece ahead of this weekend’s trip to Cardiff to play Grand Slam winners […]

7 years ago

LEINSTER 24-9 MUNSTER Munster may have landed a heavy blow, at Thomond Park back in December, but Leinster scored the knock-out when it counted. Leinster will go to Celtic Park – or Paradise, as the Celtic fans fondly call it – after they defeated Munster in the Guinness PRO14 semi-final at The RDS. A Sean […]

7 years ago

There’s been a theory surrounding Sean Cronin’s career that he’s better served off the bench. That his speed, that his dynamism, his energy is better served in the last 20 minutes when a team is tired and beginning to fall off tackles. Cronin is a very worrying sight to see coming off the Leinster bench, […]

7 years ago