Connacht Signing Announcments - 2012-13
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phatguerilla wrote: Loving the optimism s4p (as well as the new avatar). Now that Bundee's super XV season is over does anyone know if there's any chance he will move north soon, or is he definitely going to play ITM?
Wasn't sure if it was Swifty or Brock 'feckin' Lesnar.....
The lad is looking ripped...
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Oisin Heffernan not included in Leinster Academy squad for this year. Maybe we could poach him back?
Stuck in Oz with no slippers
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connachtexile wrote: Oisin Heffernan not included in Leinster Academy squad for this year. Maybe we could poach him back?
No harm in askin' like...
Suspect it depends on what Leinster has said to him, they may have asked him to do another year of AIL. As a 20 year old tight head he'll probably get as much benefit from a season with Lansdowne as in the Academy. If he's studying in Dublin that'll have a bearing too.
I suspect that an offer of a development contract or better from Connacht will lure him back west at this stage.
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I suspect that an offer of a development contract or better from Connacht will lure him back west at this stage.
You'd have to think Connacht would be the better option especially when you see the likes of Tadgh Furlong and Moore and there age profiles. Furlong who is meant to be the next big thing in propping. Add to him Jack O'Connell who can prop TH and Ed Byrne in the academy and it would make sense for him to come West.
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Heffernan is still only 19 and pretty new to playing tighthead prop and is still with Leinster under-20 this upcoming season. He will be in the Leinster sub-academy next year.
Leinster have no tightheads in the academy next season, Connacht have 2. Leinster have three TH's total signed to them with Ross retiring in the very near future.
Jack O'Connell is no longer with Leinster after joining Bristol this summer. Ed Byrne is a loosehead prop and therefore not in Heffernan's way. Why would Connacht offer a unproven 19 year old prop anything other than a academy contract?
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connachtexile wrote: Oisin Heffernan not included in Leinster Academy squad for this year. Maybe we could poach him back?
How exactly was he poached? He went to a Leinster private school and played for Leinster throughout their underage teams?
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I think somebody needs a hug....
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The IMF wrote: I think somebody needs a hug....
I think Connacht need to stop relying on Leinster for players and start producing more of their own homegrown players
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Bayern wrote:
The IMF wrote: I think somebody needs a hug....
I think Connacht need to stop relying on Leinster for players and start producing more of their own homegrown players
Kind of defeating your own argument there.
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Bayern wrote:
The IMF wrote: I think somebody needs a hug....
I think Connacht need to stop relying on Leinster for players and start producing more of their own homegrown players
We don't rely on them.......
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he doesnt look to bad in a connacht top
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