Imagine trying to tag this guy at full flight?
Leinster, Ireland and Lions’ flanker Sean O’Brien is one of the most fearsome ball-carriers in world rugby and even the hardest of men find him hard to take down.
Could you imagine then, how you’d react if the Tullow Tank was running at you at full flight in a game of tag rugby? Would it involve having to change your shorts? Most likely.
That’s a prospect that a Division Three tag rugby team in Carlow faced a month ago when the opposition team didn’t show up, forcing them into an encounter with a Division One side known as the Tullow Vikings.
If that wasn’t intimidating enough, the Vikings line-up happened to include one Sean O’Brien, who looked in fairly fearsome shape when captured at full flight on the night.
The person who sent the picture this way, who wishes to remain anonymous, said that he “cropped out the trail of scour” coming from his colleague on the left of the picture.
That’s a gross exaggeration, of course, but at the same time, we wouldn’t blame him if that was actually the case.
Sean, of course, is in Ireland camp at the moment putting in preparations ahead of the Rugby World Cup and having to put up with slagging from Brian O’Driscoll over how snug he looks in the new Irish rugby jersey.
He was obviously playing a bit of tag to keep the fitness up before Ireland camp this month (as he has done with a local GAA team in the past) but if he can be just as intimidating when the serious business starts in September, then we’ll all be happy enough.
