For the weekend that’s in it.
Saturday, 1st March, 1975.
In the centenary year of the Irish Rugby Football Union, once again, the Irish rugby team with its combination of a blatant shove in the back and a dribble up field spirit, skill and enterprise helped lift the island’s morale.
Amateur individuals subservient to the nation.
A double was on.
An almost giddy Edmund Van Esbeck wrote:
Exhilirating back movements, the deftness of the hands and the agility of the limbs of those who do their work in the tight, the ruck, the maul and the line-out. The essential ingredients were forthcoming this time that were so sadly lacking against Scotland
Meanwhile, in the crowd..
Anyone??
Previously: Frogger, 1983
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Condoms, aka French letters, were illegal here at the time. So presumably either a protest or a joke.
Jean Condom (born August 15, 1960 in Saint-André-de-Seignanx) is a retired French international rugby union player.He played as a lock for Biarritz Olympique.
He earned his first cap with the French national team on 31 October 1982 against Romania at Bucharest in 13–9 loss. He was called for the 1987 Rugby World Cup, where France was runners-up to New Zealand.
Or yes, the crowd may have been calling for a 14-year-old boy to be picked for the international squad… I’ll go with my guess though.
maybe the town of condom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condom,_Gers have a ruby team?
A really idiotic post. rugby is a way of Life. It is a world wide family of great lads having japes , banter, the craic, lemos in the pav With moggie, mickey the greek, slimer, tracker…
Condom is a town in France.
The mayor is British.
The road sign gets stolen frequently.
Willie Anderson was in our second row competing against condom at Lansdowne Road in 87. The banner at Lansdowne Road famously read “our Willie is bigger than your condom”.
Correct, I was at the game and laughed my arse off at it.
…nice Armagnac…Mary Hannafin has a holiday home there.
I remember going to internationals in the mid-1980s on a schoolboy ticket (cost about £2) when Jean Condom was playing – we were much amused. My understanding is that he changed his name to commemorate his home town in the full knowledge of its anglo meaning. I suspect he may not have been the first and that this is what the sign relates to or else just a contingent from the Gers being mischievous – a bit like Irish lads at soccer internationals with flags for their local pub (e.g. the contingent from the Submarine in Walkinstown). Condom is right in the heart of French rugby – rugby is always the first sport mentioned on the news in the region. anyone visiting the area should drop into Notre Dame de Rugby which has stained glass windows depicting rucks and scrums and the socks and boots of famous players lining the walls. (also watch out for the excelllent armagnanc, madiaran, pacherenc and of course foie gras and confit de canard)
http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/ladyofrugby.html
Tackle off the ball there? Where’s the TMO?
It’s like looking at a load of 6 year olds playing murderball in the school yard.
From memory Jean Condom was the only player that Bill McClaren ever regularly called out by both first name and surname. Helped to reduce the giggle factor of phrases such as “condom slips inside” , “condom bursts through” etc.