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Ireland light up the Six Nations 2008
That’s the Women’s Six Nations, as they play all their home games on Friday nights at Templeville Road.John O’Sullivan believes this will prove to be beneficial:
“For a lot of reasons moving the Women’s games to Friday nights will be a positive thing. The girls will have to take more time off work for sure, which is hard, but it gets us into a routine.
“It also means they get to go to see the Men’s games and we have a better shot at getting a good crowd. St. Mary’s is a good venue for games under lights.”
It will be O’Sullivan’s second Six Nations tournament with Ireland but this year’s build-up has no comparison with that of twelve months ago.
“I was appointed Irish coach last year in November with just one Interpro game to play so I didn’t get much preparation time. We didn’t have the November sessions which we do now so that will make a huge difference I feel.
“A week in Spain with the squad, where we hope to play two games, will be another boost and we have three home games this year against Italy, Wales and Scotland which will benefit us, as opposed to a lot of travelling,” O’Sullivan added.
In terms of preparation, O’Sullivan is also pleased with how events are being organised. “Things have also changed for us in an organisation capacity with the IRFU coming on board and taking over planning issues such as hotel bookings and flight details and that really makes a massive difference to our preparation.”