Leinster League

There was no under-18 game and no under-17 game this weekend.

The Leinster League is starting...

the following weekend, not this weekend, the following weekend, so, I'm just, they'll, they'll be, they'll all be out again, in the next, in the next couple, then, the kids games, for this weekend, is, our under 18 boys, are away to New Ross, and, Saturday at 12 p.m. our girl the under 18 rhinos are at home they're actually playing in Tulloch and this weekend at 11 a.m. on Saturday the under 13 boys are playing Wicklow at home on Sunday 12 p.m. and the under 14 boys are away to Tulloch at half three on Sunday and we've a couple of mini blitzes coming up the minis are flying so a couple of mini blitzes coming up and as i said last week we've a whole new crew involved in minis and a new allen a new coordinator with alan nolan so where I was looking for new kids to come, and they seem to be enjoying it at the moment.

There's been a big increase in minutes this year, thank God.

Our youths, as James said there, we had good wins in 13th, 14th and 16th over Kilkenny.

a number of our teams didn't have a fixture.

So that's cranking up at the moment and the Leinster League is around the corner.

So, yeah, that's the state of play in Tullow and hoping for an upturn in fortunes.

they've probably had the best pre-season maybe not the best pre-season but the most eye-opening pre-season in the country

well one point and I want to bring Berkey on this as well because you've coached in Limerick before and you've seen it and one of the big things in Leinster is the Leinster League we just heard from the lads about the Ulster Shield obviously the rejig Munster Senior Cup that is there that you do drop down into a plate but I've been involved with Bose for over a decade, and I remember we never got the games that Bose have got this season.

What I'm talking about is, you play Middleton in the opening game, you go on, you play the Cookies the next week, and then you play Con the next week.

That you cannot ask... for 240 minutes of rugby, better tiered than that.

That they'd already put their faith in him.

Maybe it was a bit of a bargain for him for a while that he didn't shut down the Leinster League straight away.

But I think this is the best outcome for him.

I think it's the best outcome for Lars Schell.

I suppose it's nice to see it probably for yourself even doing well and great numbers and great ladies numbers and that.

I suppose do you have fond memories of growing up playing rugby there? You won a Leinster League at some stage, did you?

Yeah, I'm 19.

Look, we had a very strong team that year, particularly.