JAMIE OSBORNE WAs the subject of praise from Naas clubmate James Tracy following his selection at full-back for tomorrow’s clash against Fiji.
Tracy joined host Ciaran Kennedy and The 42’s Murray Kinsella on Wednesday’s Rugby Weekly Extra, the podcast for subscribers to The 42.
“The schools have obviously dominated in recent years in terms of numbers that get picked up, but with the likes of Jamie it just gives you hope and shows that there is a pathway there for a kid from Naas or for a kid in a club down the country,” Tracy said.
“It shows that it’s not just players who go to these perceived rugby schools which are like mini academies. It can be done; you just have to put the extra work in and play really well for your club. It’s possible then to be fast tracked into playing for Ireland and having an illustrious career.
“So, it’s an amazing story that Jamie has had.”
Tracy added: “Now that I’m on the other side of it and doing this kind of media work, something which used to piss me off was when people would big people up because they were the hot new thing. But then also how quickly they would forget the previous hot new thing and move on.”
“Like, he’s not around that long and in people’s minds he’s already seen as a stalwart. Now, there’s nothing wrong with that and it is an amazing thing, but I still think he should be appreciated for how good he has been in such a short amount of time. I think it’s exceptional,” Tracy said.
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England should keep Cleverly and always play him. It’ll be great to watch…..as an irish fan!
As u obviously support Liverpool who are an English team y wud u want England to lose when you support their league
I bet that racist wouldn’t stand in a pub in liverpool with gerrard on his back and cheer for Demark ?we love Liverpool no you Don’t news flash its in England!!!
Because supporting a team in the league and supporting the national team are not the same thing. Pretty obvious really
People in England support Ireland they don’t hate the Irish you lot who hate England are the one’s with the problem ?
David, it’s because Irish Barstoolers are often infected with a rare mental disease, known as ‘Cognitive Dissonance’. It’s very humiliating for Ireland and the Department of Health needs to do more to address this epidemic that is sweeping across our country.
How are supporting a club and supporting a country similar beliefs? Clubs have players from all nationalities so are completely different from national teams. Guarantee you if someone stood in a city pub in Manchester wearing a united jersey there would be issues regardless of which national team they were supporting. And to bring it closer to whom for the holier than though LOI lads, what would happen in a Rovers pub in Tallaght to some Irish supporter wearing a Bohs/Shelbourne jersey.
It only take one to spark it off.
Panda a Man U fan?
In fairness how cleverly is in the squad and Gareth barry isn’t is some joke
Not a fan of Cleverley. But in many ways I can’t agree with that. Barry hasn’t much to offer england anymore at this stage of his career whereas Cleverley will be around for the next ten years maybe.
“Cleverley will be around”
That quote sums up Tom Cleverly’s performance in every game he has ever been involved in.
“and man united start winning again”
you’ll be waitin a while so
10 days ! Not that long to wait …
Ahhhhhh!
Matthew I’m glad to hear that you have no ambition of winning this weekends game so, save yourselves for the visit of Liverpool.
Ted That was clearly aimed at willy , of course I would expect them to win this weekend
I honestly don’t.West Brom I think is it? Been takin points off bigger teams lately,though I suppose United aren’t considered a big team these days :)
Not a big club ? Why have they not won a league title for 20+ years or something
He mightn’t be the best player around but he’s still not the worst player. Having perditions like that and singling out one player is really unfair!