{"id":77023,"date":"2014-11-26T19:06:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T19:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=77023"},"modified":"2014-11-26T19:06:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T19:06:18","slug":"size-matter-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/size-matter-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Size does matter, but how much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Moynihan<br \/>\nIn the aftermath you may have missed it, but the remarks bear revisiting.<\/p>\n<p>Paul O\u2019Connell, speaking before Ireland played South Africa last weekend, had an observation or two about physical presence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no doubt about it, the physical part of the game is suited to the South Africans,\u201d said O\u2019Connell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no doubt having big athletic men helps you be successful in rugby . . . we have some great athletes but we could be bigger as well, we could be more physical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connell chose his comparison well, says Dr Liam Hennessy of Setanta College, who spent ten years as the IRFU Director of Fitness.<\/p>\n<p>The Tipperary native points out that you don\u2019t need scientific evidence to recognise how imposing the South African physique can be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you go and stand on a street corner for ten minutes somewhere like Stellenbosch, you soon realise how big the South Africans are physically,\u201d says Hennessy&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; see more at :- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/rugby\/size-does-matter-but-how-much-297934.html\">http:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/rugby\/size-does-matter-but-how-much-297934.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Moynihan In the aftermath you may have missed it, but the remarks bear revisiting. Paul O\u2019Connell, speaking before Ireland played South Africa last weekend, had an observation or two about physical presence. \u201cThere is no doubt about it, the physical part of the game is suited to the South Africans,\u201d said O\u2019Connell. \u201cThere is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6469,15491,6052,15492,9097,15465],"class_list":["post-77023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-but","tag-does","tag-how","tag-matter","tag-much","tag-size"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77025,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77023\/revisions\/77025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}