Seanad debates
Wednesday, 29 January 2003
Development of Rugby: Motion.
Senator Phelan made reference to the travelling blazers. I attended the game between Ireland and Italy three years ago. It was the first game we played in the Six Nations Championship. We stayed in a magnificent hotel, the Cavalieri Hilton, which overlooks the Vatican. It was a splendid place but one could not move for blazers. That has a disruptive effect on the team because all the blazers want to tell the players how they should play the game the following day when they accost them in the many hallways of hotels. I doubt that Manchester United bring all the board members and their wives and everybody else when they travel to play a European Cup match. Perhaps the union might examine this issue.
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