IT’S SUNDAY NIGHT and the 31 players lucky enough to be in Ireland’s Rugby World Cup squad are settling in for what will hopefully be a long stint in camp.
Sunday night is evidently also squad gift night and Cian Healy has taken it upon himself to bring some inspiration from the joint most positive man in Irish sport – alongside Luke Fitzgerald of course – The Notorious Conor McGregor.
Here’s the trinket courtesy of Jamie Heaslip’s camera.
Healy has a direct line inside the McGregor camp as the Notorious’ SBG training partner Cathal Pendred remains a friend after the pair went played rugby together in their Belvedere school days.
Big Devin Toner has also unveiled his squad gift. Judging by this picture it’s a six foot pile of smoothie makers.
But Mike Ross is a clear winner so far. This is what we call inspirational.
Can’t be any joy in that for either team.
There’s a great documentary called Next Goal Wins about that American Samoa team
Is that the documentary about an irish backpacker that ended up coaching them ?
Awesome documentary,they’re a seriously loveable team.
No, a MLS coach comes down from the US to train the team!
Yeah a Dutch lad and he’s mad as a bag of shpiders
Is there a lovable fat kid in it? Like in the movies?
No doubt we would scrapea 2-0 win and the result would be hailed as a success.
still ranked higher than Ireland
Not actually true as Micronesia isn’t an official FIFA qualifying country and the team was made up mainly of under-23 as it was an Olympic qualifier. The Australia vs American Samoa match is still the biggest win.
…should have read the article first. My bad… Red thumbs welcome.
What a laugh…..qualification for the Olympics.