April 2009 College Tribune | 2nd 3rd February 2009
hing the Promised
could help promote the game across the country, but instead to satisfy rugby's obsessions with being a middle-class sport played in middle-class areas by middle-class boys’. Myers also ponders the ‘coincidence that rugby in the virtually autonomous province of Munster, with its class-less passion and its genuine devotion to the sport, is so often triumphant in Europe’. Finally, because I couldn’t help myself, I asked both players on their predictions of who would get Captain for the Lions tour. Mr. Wood fired back with ‘Paul O’Connell definitely. McGeechan prefers the intimidating factor, and he likes having a forward as the leader. Paul is a fantastic leader.’ So, we may indeed see a Munster man captain the Lions. Amid a national, nay global recession, we must take the bull by the horns while we have the chance and improve and expand on the development of schools participation in the Academy across the board. We are a small country, currently ranked at number four in the world of Rugby Union, we should take it into our hands now to further develop our future in it, in all sectors. Alas, has the real route to beating this recession and re-booting our economy been revealed at last? Whether a Yes or No, it doesn’t hurt to hope.
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