Be in no doubt the catalyst for change happened quite a few years ago, the competitive edge that we have shown in Ulster has not gone unnoticed, it is testament to the leadership we have shown and those who came here to help us have shown and our willingness to be open to change and to embrace what was at the beginning just a hope of a better future that then before our eyes happened in a great upswelling of good sense and optimism. The confidence to sit here and write this is mirrored across rugby clubs and schools with young and old stepping up and out of the past and saying, we can do, this lets have a go, we are worthy and we will go into and do whatever it takes to be better. Getting ever more fitter and smarter and freeing ourselves once again to know that not only are we allowed to win this game but we are also good enough to win this game, through our graft, and dogged spirit!
Its an incredible feeling to make the leap of faith and discover so many obstacles mental and physical where sometimes not even real, but have all been surmountable, totally surmountable! To discover that everyone is actually the same, and we only excel through hard work and we would only be bothered to it if we cared. WE DO, thats the amazing thing that has driven all of this.
Making the strides forward in how we cope pyschologically with gains, unbelievable gains knowing that that was only the beginning has caught the ever growing attention of the media who are now keen to cover this game. Yes it sells Newspapers and viewers and yes it leads to hits on websites and so on and so forth, but without a shadow of a doubt having felt the pain of failure for so many years and been in a deep state of confusion about how to get out of that one thing amongst all the countless other pieces of support that are growing all the time, one thing that is the true goodness of this is the belief that a growing number of people can forge out of this sometimes messy place that we live, that out of all the years of that, can come a better future.
Doing the training, getting the nutrition right, introducing tech into the environment, going indoors or outdoors, getting on 3g/4g surfaces, listening to new coaching ideas, dare we say it coming up with our own, training, working, working, working, growing, practicing, and getting better at this game, better and better and better, learning to control our minds, learning how to arrive at the game, dogged, determined, obeying the game plan, doing it, ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Being absorbed in the game and going with the hunger for success has brought us to a very very good place, knowing all the while that the work is never done, for those who are in the race, other nations and provinces and clubs and schools are also working very hard to find the way forward. But knowing what we know about how it feels to live here in this province, we know that this place that we are in now is better than its been in a long time, healthier mentally than its been in a long time. And really when all is said and done thats the secret to happiness! We are no better or no worse than anyone else, we welcome everyone into the fraternity. We still suffer the agony of failure and have also now tasted the SUCCESS.
Always it is into the future knowing that all around us are those who would see all this undone, and would have fear and oppression rear its head once again, profiting from it, so this desire to win and to be in charge of our own destiny is precious, and will so easily slip away unless the hard work continues. Now that we are so close to the goal, it will continue and we must communicate at times how this change happened and the goodness that was realeased and allowed to be.
HUMANS! AMAZING Creatures, capable of such evil acts but also and now more so, capable of great acts and good acts.
Every new team that forms works at it and works at it to achieve their goals and objectives. Just look around you at all the new faces on many sides, THAT IS EVOLUTION, THAT IS NORMAL, only by going for it to move to the next level. Look at all the guys now playing overseas or at Ulster look at the growth of the schools and clubs. There is hardly a week goes by that new school is not taking up the game in all communities. SO PRECIOUS AND GOOD – BEYOND OUR WILDEST DREAMS!
Hard Work and lots of it. ITs brilliant and its happening here and its happening right now!
