We Now Feel Like We Own the Team ; Flannery Delighted That Fresh Approach Is Allowing Ireland's Players to Have Their Say [Eire Region Edition 2]

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IT WAS a query that invoked a memory last Wednesday in Dublin that Jerry Flannery could well have done without. The group media session he was at the focus of was trundling along nicely enough, the hooker telling it as it was last weekend when France were defeated at Croke Park.

But then came the momentum-stopping question that temporarily took the wind out of the exchanges. Someone unwittingly asked Flannery to give his insight on how refreshing the atmosphere in the Ireland camp is this February compared to this time last year.

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We Now Feel Like We Own the Team ; Flannery Delighted That Fresh Approach Is Allowing Ireland's Players to Have Their Say [Eire Region Edition 2]

It was a cringeworthy moment, the sort of sloppy entreaty that gives any rugby player ammunition to believe that those reporting on their sport often aren't that clued-in to what is actually going on.

You couldn't blame Flannery for thinking that way if he did. How could anyone forget that at this very juncture in 2008 the Munster pla...

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