Blue Blood - by Bernard Jackman

Sheep Shagger

Saw this came out last week, anyone picked up a copy and read any of it yet?

CatFromHue

i just finished reading it

its more a diary of his last year with leinster with some bits about his past then an auto biography to be honest.

he spends alot of time giving out about cheika and talking about munster where i would have liked to have heard more about his sale days or more about connacht.

"blue blood" - Love it

Digifriendly

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"blue blood" - Love it

Does this mean Bernard is upper class?:)

irishbucsfan

Wonder which name came first? Birch's or Quinlan's?

phog

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Wonder which name came first? Birch's or Quinlan's?

I think they had the same co-writer and or publisher.

bamboozle

finished it over the weekend, as a Clontarf and AIL fan i was a bit disappointed as it focused more on his time at Leinster in a diary format and just touched on his journey from clontarf to connacht to sale to clontarf and back to connacht.

agree with the poster above it certainly focuses a lot of time on Cheika & Gibbs and also on munster.

As autobiography's go its brutally honest which is refreshing and a few of his former playing colleagues may take umbrage with some comments.

i'd recommend.

I heard Quinlan being interviewed on the last word last night. I'd say his book will be your typical sit on the fence autobiography judging from the juicy bits Matt Cooper was trying to get out of him.

sleepyman

I heard Quinlan being interviewed on the last word last night. I'd say his book will be your typical sit on the fence autobiography judging from the juicy bits Matt Cooper was trying to get out of him.[/QUOTE]

As a Limerick & Munster man I fell he's been/is a great servant to Munster & Irish rugby.
But I hope he doesn't consider going into punditry.
I just feel him & Frankie don't really say anything particularly insightful, almost like they don't want to offend their buddies in Munster.
Nothing against Frankie but he doesn't say anything of note when he's on for Magners League games or even on Sky.
I'd like if rte considered bringing matt Williams on board.
Seems to have a great amount of knowledge on the game & can articulate his thoughts well.

Digifriendly

Digifriendly wrote: »

Does this mean Bernard is upper class?:)

Just being true to his roots. /swirls brandy and puffs on expensive cigar.

Sheep Shagger

I see Jackman himself is in the new supporters bar (in the RDS) before the Dragons game on Friday night - selling and signing copies.

Hippo

bamboozle wrote: »

finished it over the weekend, as a Clontarf and AIL fan i was a bit disappointed as it focused more on his time at Leinster in a diary format and just touched on his journey from clontarf to connacht to sale to clontarf and back to connacht.

In fairness to Jackman and the publisher, describing his time at Leinster was obviously going to be the major selling point. From a wider angle, his highlighting of the concussion problem was very interesting, and is clearly a timebomb for current players given how hard they're pushed in the modern game. He, and John Fogarty (in his Independent piece) may have done a real service to the game by bringing this debate to the fore.

bamboozle

Hippo wrote: »

In fairness to Jackman and the publisher, describing his time at Leinster was obviously going to be the major selling point. From a wider angle, his highlighting of the concussion problem was very interesting, and is clearly a timebomb for current players given how hard they're pushed in the modern game. He, and John Fogarty (in his Independent piece) may have done a real service to the game by bringing this debate to the fore.

completely agree on all points, the book is suprising in how little affection he shows for Connacht having spent so much time out west, probably as he's trying to big up the Leinster aspect of the book, which as you say would be the main selling point of the book.

CatFromHue

he came across as having very little affection for connacht altogther. but then he did say that losing so much was hard to deal with.

interesting what he said about bradley too. that one seemed to slip under the radar!

i would like to have heard more about how things were done at leinster in comparison to connacht and sale though. there is only so much you can take of him talking about munster and jonno gibbs!