The sliding door moment for me in terms of my predicament was a conversation with the then Leinster coach Gary Ella, who sidled up to me on the short walk from the dressing room to the pitch in Old Belvedere to ask me if I fancied a spin in the 13 jersey for a European match away to the Sale Sharks, two weeks before the opening game of the Six Nations Championship against France in Paris. I went pretty well in Stockport and following an injury to Brian O’Driscoll played in the centre alongside Kevin Maggs in Paris. I kept my place in the team and ended up winning the first-ever player of the tournament award; it’s not to brag but to illustrate that there are plot twists in many sports people’s careers that cannot be anticipated.Ireland’s squad is reasonably settled with the obvious exception of Johnny Sexton’s successor
The sliding door moment for me in terms of my predicament was a conversation with the then Leinster coach Gary Ella, who sidled up to me on the short walk from the dressing room to the pitch in Old Belvedere to ask me if I fancied a spin in the 13 jersey for a European match away to the Sale Sharks , two weeks before the opening game of the Six Nations Championship against France in Paris .
I went pretty well in Stockport and following an injury to Brian O’Driscoll played in the centre alongside Kevin Maggs in Paris. I kept my place in the team and ended up winning the first-ever player of the tournament award; it’s not to brag but to illustrate that there are plot twists in many sports people’s careers that cannot be anticipated.Ireland’s squad is reasonably settled with the obvious exception of Johnny Sexton’s successo
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