In what has been heralded as an act of desperation for Y.I. the club have been forced to fly back to Sydney two of the clubs recently retired corner forwards for the remainder of the season.
With the departure of Pat Dunlea,Paul Maher and James Walsh for sunnier pastures and a number of injuries among the starting XV,the Young Ireland backroom staff have had to take the drastic measures of bringing two of our most prolific attacking forwards out from stud.
Manager Aidan Coleman was kind enough to be interviewed just after the Penrith game "well we dont see this as a step back for the club more a leap toward the future as the two boys bushes and buddy proved themselves last year to be great clubmen and all round nice fellas" but when this reporter pushed Coleman on the actual footballing abilities of the pair all he could do was offer us a curt "no comment" before being bundled into Lolly's awaiting car.
This turn of events doesn't sit too well with the vast Young Irelands supporters club who's chairman Niall 'Noca' O Callaghan gave us one of his regular unsolicited soundbites "He's (coleman) a langer if he thinks he can fob us couple of hundred y.i. supporters who turn up to Auburn every sunday off with two dublin whores it would be more in his best interests to go get....." at this point in his rant match security had to lead Noca away from the field such was the barrage of abuse and expletives being thrown the way of the Young Ireland management team.
Well this reporter can only hope that the inclusion of the two Dublin boys aka The Blues Brothers bring the club the same lift in fortunes as Peter Canavan's return to the Tyrone panel last year
