A FEW WEEKS ago it appeared that Heineken’s Twitter account accidentally ‘released’ Neil Back’s mobile number during a photo shoot and many angry Irish rugby fans took the opportunity to release 13-years of pent up anger in the form of a few expletive-riddled messages.
The reason for the vitriol? Oh, just Neil Back costing Munster their first ever Heineken Cup trophy in 2002.
Turns out the number release was a stunt pulled by Heineken and they picked three fans who sent Back messages and invited them to Dublin to collect two free tickets for the Leinster v Bath Champions Cup quarter-final.
Neil Back was in attendance, and really made the trio squirm.
One guy in particular seem to wither under Back’s stare.
It may have been 12 years ago, but there is definitely plenty of fans who still think that Back deserved all the stick he got.
And it will be great to see the ‘hand of Back’ addressed when the flanker and former Munster scrum-half Peter Stringer are both on TV3′s World Cup coverage in the autumn.
Even when on the bench he didn’t get game time. The coach doesn’t like or trust him. Saturday once again showed just how wrong O’connor has been all season
O’Connor is just all wrong for Leinster.
He has a very big chance next season with Leinster during the World Cup, midfield won’t be as competitive so he should get a good run of matches.
Mark if Darcy doesn’t make the World Cup squad, he’ll play 12 with t’eo at 13. Then Madigan and sexton will be back so the midfield won’t be as easy to get into as you may think
That pop pass from O’Brien
Battle between him and Madigan for the 12 jersey next season.
It’s always to easy to see who coaches ‘just like/don’t like’. When Gopperth played badly it was ignored whereas when Madigan played mediocre or even if Reid played well decisions went against them.
It creates such a poisonous culture as some players start to feel entitled to spots and others feel it doesn’t matter how well they play they won’t get picked. Cody and Fergusson were masters at disregarding players identities and judging on match performance alone. MOC is such a stink manager.