Front Up, Rise Up Front Up, Rise Up

Front Up, Rise Up

The Official Story of Connacht Rugby

    • $14.99
    • $14.99

Publisher Description

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 and Dublin-raised match-winner Niyi Adeolokun.

The story takes in the province’s troubled professional history, which had them on the brink of extinction as a professional entity in 2003 and led to Connacht and their supporters marching to the IRFU offices in a successful bid to keep them afloat.

It covers their dethroning of the champions Glasgow in the Sportsground in Galway and their stunning performance in the final against Leinster in Edinburgh. In more than two decades of professional rugby, there has been no story quite like it.

GENRE
Sports & Recreation
RELEASED
2016
3 November
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
368
Pages
PUBLISHER
Transworld
SELLER
The Random House Group Limited
SIZE
25.7
MB

More Books Like This

The Pressure Game The Pressure Game
2019
My Autobiography My Autobiography
2020
Rob Kearney Rob Kearney
2020
Bernard Brogan Bernard Brogan
2020
Refuse to be Denied: My Grand Slam Year Refuse to be Denied: My Grand Slam Year
2012
Dublin: The Chaos Years Dublin: The Chaos Years
2018

More Books by Gerry Thornley