The Offload: Rugby has a problem if attacking is bad for you - Ireland’s resilience pays off with WXV3 title
Clontarf hooker Dylan Donnellan made his Leinster debut in Saturday's win over the Sharks at the RDS having received a call-up just last Monday. Photograph: Ben Brady/Inpho
Donnellan eventually came back to Ireland. Now a sales rep with a laboratory supplies company, the 29-year-old finally earned an elusive first provincial cap when called in to cover for a personnel crisis at hooker. “It’s an amazing story, isn’t it?” acknowledged Leo Cullen. “Clontarf is a great club. They’re very supportive of us. We’re thankful of his employers that they were sympathetic to his and our needs.”
It’s been a long-held belief that kicking and defending well is a safer winning ploy, especially in knock-outs, than holding on to the ball. The chances of winning the territory battle are better while the likelihood of mistakes costing points in your own half diminishes.
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