Ford playing it cool as high-flying Dolphin set for Shannon showdown

DOLPHIN will view today’s AIB clash with champions Shannon at Musgrave Park (2.30pm) as one of the biggest matches in the history of the club.

It’s not an unusually difficult assignment; there have been head-to-head confrontations on many occasions in the past, some good, some bad, from Dolphin’s point of view; except to say that after two rounds of the current campaign Dolphin stand on the cusp of something special as, they plunder their way through this section of Division One.

But Dolphin’s Welsh coach Steve Ford has been around Munster and Irish club rugby long enough to know that two wins against two losses between opponents in the opening sequences of matches means absolutely nothing.