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Front Up, Rise Up: The Official Story of Connacht Rugby
Gerry Thornley
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Description for Front Up, Rise Up: The Official Story of Connacht Rugby
Paperback. Moves inside the dressing-room, week-long, bonding trek to Siberia and back for a European Challenge Cup game. This story takes in the province's troubled professional history, which had them on the brink of extinction as a professional entity in 2003. It covers their dethroning of the champions Glasgow in the Sportsground in Galway. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; WSBT; WSJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127. Weight in Grams: 368.
Front Up, Rise Up is the story of Connacht's remarkable journey to becoming the 2016 Pro12 champions. The story goes inside the dressing-room, takes in their unscheduled, week-long, bonding trek to Siberia and back for a European Challenge Cup game, and all the key twists and turns along the way. It brings us the characters in this Band of Brothers, from the locals such as captain John Muldoon from Portumna to their iconic fans' favourite Bundee Aki - who like their talismanic coach Pat Lam is a Kiwi from Auckland of Samoan descent - and their Nigerian-born ... Read more
Front Up, Rise Up is the story of Connacht's remarkable journey to becoming the 2016 Pro12 champions. The story goes inside the dressing-room, takes in their unscheduled, week-long, bonding trek to Siberia and back for a European Challenge Cup game, and all the key twists and turns along the way. It brings us the characters in this Band of Brothers, from the locals such as captain John Muldoon from Portumna to their iconic fans' favourite Bundee Aki - who like their talismanic coach Pat Lam is a Kiwi from Auckland of Samoan descent - and their Nigerian-born ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781848272392
SKU
V9781848272392
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Ref
99-99
About Gerry Thornley
Gerry Thornley has been the rugby correspondent of the Irish Times since 1997 and is a regular contributor and rugby analyst on both television and radio. He is the award winning author of Trevor Brennan: Heart and Soul which won the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year in 2007 and the Irish Book Awards Sports Book of the ... Read more
Reviews for Front Up, Rise Up: The Official Story of Connacht Rugby
A great story, brilliantly told.
Matt Cooper
The Last Word, Today FM
A hell of a yarn, told with precision and elan.
Malachy Clerkin
Books of the Year, Irish Times
A great, insightful read.
Rugby World
Matt Cooper
The Last Word, Today FM
A hell of a yarn, told with precision and elan.
Malachy Clerkin
Books of the Year, Irish Times
A great, insightful read.
Rugby World