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Thu 03 Mar 2010Clongowes' early blitz sets the tone for victory
SCHOOLS RUGBY LEINSTER MUNSTER ULSTER SENIOR CUP FINAL/Clongowes 38 St Michael’s 20:THE PERFECT feast after a 10-year famine. The history of rugby has shown that a team with an expansive philosophy can be suffocated by superior physicality. Clongowes Wood reiterated this point yesterday before ripping St Michael’s asunder late on.
Right out of the traps the bigger pack turned the screw. Granted, the quickest try ever seen in a Leinster schools final came via two St Michael’s errors and, while they admirably fought back, ultimately they were outclassed in the North Kildare boarding school’s relentless march to a seventh title.
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