There is a small window every September when every rugby team in Ireland is perfect. The new jerseys are still in their plastic and nobody has missed a tackle since June. Teams have trained well for w...

Leo Cullen was asked about Joey Carbery at Leinster’s pre-season game last Saturday, and he reached back eight years to answer it: “He should never have gone in the first place, but that’s what happen...

Looking through the teams involved in the French Top 14 table in 2009-10, there is something you will notice. Albi, Bayonne, Biarritz, Bourgoin, Brive, Castres, Clermont, Montauban, Montpellier, Perpi...

Innovation. From the Latin innovare, to renew. To make a new thing out of an old one. It gets confused with invention, and the two are not the same. Invention is making something that did not exist. I...

It’s rare in professional sport that a coach gets to leave on their terms. Most never get the chance. They are pushed, or they cling to a season too long.  Leo Cullen has given himself, and Leinster, ...

The new coach arrives at their new club. There’s a warm welcome from the chairman and a walk through the building, talking about goals and expectations for the seasons ahead. They walk onto a pitch so...

Podcast Episode · The Counter Ruck · 29 May · 20min