The young Irish outhalf is labelled the ‘Peter Crouch of rugby’, while Manchester United’s new manager sees familiar failings
That’s two wins on the trot now, so is our rugby crisis over? Andrew Trimble wasn’t entirely convinced that we’d had one, “it’s not doom and gloom, we’ve been spoilt,” he’d said before Saturday’s meeting with Fiji. But for anyone who had been fretting, a 52-17 win with a liberal sprinkling of tries might have offered some reassurance that this team may not be quite done yet.
Robbie, incidentally, had had a quirky start to his day. He was met by TNT Sport when he got off the bus at the Aviva and was asked what the mood had been like on board. “Did you have a singalong?”Malachy Clerkin: Ireland can’t afford to miss the women’s Euros - once momentum is lost, it’s hard to get backTo contest or not to contest? That is the question for Ireland’s aerial game
But what of young Sam Prendergast? “The Peter Crouch of rugby,” as Brian O’Driscoll described him over on TNT, due to him being a tall but not massively bulky lad. “We’ve been here before,” Sky’s Kelly Cates said to Roy Keane of Manchester United’s latest New Messiah. Roy was quite optimistic, though, until he saw Amorim’s first starting XI, the realisation dawning that he had to work with the same shower who had left United 13th in the table before Erik ten Hag was put out of his misery.
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