Rocky: A Leinster blockbuster

IT’S CRYING out to be made, box office written all over it.

Already the outline has been scripted, the plot finalised, and the story surely writes itself. All we need now is a title. It could be called The Season, this unforgettable campaign when Rocky Elsom came to Leinster and in less than a year, turned the province from underdogs to top dogs. Well, perhaps not underdogs, but under-performers certainly.

The Leinster players railed against such collective insult of course, and given the kind of abrasion so many of their players brought to the game down the years, they had every right – it was unfair. All that was before Elsom touched down in Dublin, however.