Roscrea out to buck tradition again

Leinster Schools Senior Cup Semi-Final

It’s three weeks since Dylan Murphy’s late, late try hauled Cistercian College Roscrea past Blackrock College in an epic Leinster Senior Schools Cup quarter-final, but the full magnitude of that shock has yet to be calibrated.

Lose to Newbridge College today, or in the final later this month, and that defeat of the perennial bigwigs that were aiming for a ‘threepeat’ in this competition will amount to little or nothing to the country college still seeking its maiden title.