“Guys, you need to get a song about where you come from!” Back when Willie Anderson was coaching at the Ulster Rugby academy – overseeing the development of players such as Michael Lowry, Stewart Moore, Nathan Doak and James Hume – he was always perplexed when it came to the sing-songs. Instilled in him from […]

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“That made him stand out as a warrior.” Back at the turn of the century, Matt Williams and Willie Anderson were tasked with accelerating Leinster’s plunge into the professional era. It was not easy by a long stretch, but having Brian O’Driscoll on the books certainly helped. It was in the latter part of the […]

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It all started with a few beers and a wild idea gone bad. Back in 1980, Willie Anderson was on a summer rugby tour of Argentina with a team known as ‘The Penguins’. The Ulster lock had been called up for a jaunt around the South American, which was under the control of military officer […]

4 years ago