All Black Fifth Column

Snickers Man

It would appear that there will be an Irishman working behind the scenes in the All Blacks camp as they prepare for the test against Ireland this June.

Reading Tom Humphries interview with Roy Keane in yesterday's Times it says that Keane has to spend some time on site with a team outside of his own sport as the final part of his professional coaching licence exams. And the team he has chosen to help out is the All Blacks!!!

What could he do to spike their guns?

Poison their breakfast?

Start a fight between the players and the team coach?

Undermine the All Blacks players by giving an interview to the papers saying that they have no ambition because they're all playing for ****e local teams and none of them play with the big money boys in Europe?

Or will he just say "Feck it, I have an exam to pass" and help them out to the best of his ability.

For which, see above.

bleg

or would he try to betray his country again

jayteecork

Roy Keane is going to be working with the All Blacks?

This can't be true, surely?

Did you read this on April Fool's Day?

That said though, Roy is a bit of a Munster fan and has been known to turn up for their games.
I remember seeing him in the crowd at the epic Munster/Wasps game in 2004.

RuggieBear

bleg wrote: »

or would he try to betray his country again

lol

bleg

heh

rockman15

" at de end of de dey, all credit tu de all blacks, bu' ireland just wanted it more"...you never know?!


imagine him trying to give the blow dryer treatment to mcCaw?! HA!

Zzippy

bleg wrote: »

or would he try to betray his country again

Oh, here we go again! I've only 2 words for you, the first is troll, the other I won't say cos it would get me banned.
Its ancient history, get over it.

Sangre

In an ideal scenario Keano would have a big game of poker with the NZ team. He'd go all in and be called a 'bluffer', a 'chancer' and a 'faker'. Not one to take such an affront to his character, over the next few weeks he would systematically take out the whole team with well placed drop kicks to the knees.

Snickers Man

jayteecork wrote: »

Roy Keane is going to be working with the All Blacks?

This can't be true, surely?

Did you read this on April Fool's Day?

That said though, Roy is a bit of a Munster fan and has been known to turn up for their games.
I remember seeing him in the crowd at the epic Munster/Wasps game in 2004.

It's only for a few days. It's basically a "work placement scheme" as part of his qualification. But it will be in the few days before the NZ Ireland game down under this summer.

And I'm not trolling or "failing to get over" the Saipan story.

It's just the idea of Keane in among the All Blacks amuses the hell out of me.

Zzippy

Snickers Man wrote: »

It's only for a few days. It's basically a "work placement scheme" as part of his qualification. But it will be in the few days before the NZ Ireland game down under this summer.

And I'm not trolling or "failing to get over" the Saipan story.

It's just the idea of Keane in among the All Blacks amuses the hell out of me.

That was actually directed at bleg for his comment, unless of course you're also bleg and using multiple accounts...!

Pinetree Boy

He will spend a whole 3 days with the ABs before the Irish test.

Snickers Man

Zzippy wrote: »

That was actually directed at bleg for his comment, unless of course you're also bleg and using multiple accounts...!

Multiple accounts!!! The very idea!!!

No I'm not bleg. Whoever he or she is.

Pinetree Boy wrote:

He will spend a whole 3 days with the ABs before the Irish test.

To paraphrase one of Keane's former managers: "It only takes a few seconds to give somebody the hair dryer treatment in the dressing room".

If Keane tries to bawl out somebody like McCaw or Collins in the dressing room, how I wish somebody would have a handycam ready to record that one!!

Could be worth checking up on Youtube in the days after.