Drico leaves team mates to coldly go
No doubt, visions of a scantily-clad “Drico” adopting poses normally associated with his model girlfriend, Glenda Gilsen, would have provided plenty of festive cheer to lunchtime shoppers of the fairer sex.
Sadly, the Irish captain chose cold feet over the risk of freezing other parts of his anatomy as he cried off attending a planned photo-shoot at Arnott’s store in Henry Street yesterday.
Complaints by some rugby commentators that Drico is adopting too many popstar-style habits might be one possible explanation for his non-attendance. However, rumours he is officially acting as a body double for Fred Durst, lead singer with US band Limp Bizkit, were also dismissed, despite their shared fondness of facial hair on the chin.
Rugger huggers hoping for sight of some rugby tackle were largely disappointed as the players who braved the cold air confined their modelling skills to showing off a new type of upper-body underwear.
Armourfit is a new range of body-hugging clothing by sportswear manufacturer, Canterbury, which uses a revolutionary “moisture transport system” that actively regulates one’s body temperature.
Somewhat confusingly, the Cold Armourfit keeps you warm in wintry weather while the “Hot” version keeps you cool in tropical conditions.
In the absence of Drico, it was left to his Leinster team-mates, Denis Hickie, Gordon D’Arcy and Ben Gissing to abandon the training ground for the catwalk.
The trio posed happily for photographs outside the department store on Middle Abbey Street in their new armour of the Cold variety.
However, the greatest danger posed to the players was not so much frostbite as a Luas tackle, when one of the trams came perilously close to the media scrum that had developed around the play. One hopes they will be on fire for the forthcoming Six Nations with or without their Cold armour-plating.
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