Alan Quinlan to receive IRB Fair Play award

hefty_langer

I'm shocked at this, but can't argue with his record!
http://ninetyninecall.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/ninetyninecall-quinlan-to-receive-irb-fair-play-award/

What a day yesterday for the big man from Clanwilliam. Not long after the story broke yesterday in Cork’s Evening Echo that Quinlan was to retire in the coming weeks, the International Rugby Board called an emergency meeting in their Dublin headquarters. It was late last night when Mike Miller the CEO/Secretary General of the IRB tweeted this:

Although an unexpected accolade, this is nothing more that Quinlan deserves after a professional rugby career spanning over 16 years with Munster, in the 16years with Munster Quinlan clocked up over 210 appearances and never received a red-card in any game. This in itself is a monumental achievement that a player could go so far in the top-level of rugby and in every single appearance bend the rules to within breaking point but never get penalised.
For this Alan Quinlan, the entire rugby world salutes you! Here’s a clip of his best bits!

TheRevolution

Good effort but that is just too far fetched to ever be seriously believed.

hefty_langer

I got a chuckle out of it, although 8 YC's and no Reds in a 210 game career is pretty impressive for a flanker, especially him!

almighty1

Haha when I heard that Quinlan was to play for the Barbarians ...

Membership is by invitation and the only qualifications considered when issuing an invitation are that the player's rugby is of a high enough standard and secondly that he should behave himself on and off the field.

..... I thought it was April 1st then also.

durkadurka

This is great news. It's a finger in the eye to all the naysayers!!






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