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Munster confirm the signing of an Irish rugby legend's son

Munster's Gordon Wood during the pre-season friendly match versus Gloucester in September (Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

The Wood name has been synonymous with Irish rugby over the years, hooker Keith Wood following in the footsteps of his prop father Gordon and also becoming an Ireland and British and Irish Lions Test player.

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Now, Gordon Wood, Keith’s 20-year-old midfield-playing son, has been signed by Munster after a first-team breakthrough in a pre-season friendly against Gloucester in September.

A statement read: “Munster can confirm that 20-year-old centre Gordon Wood has joined the academy. Gordon started out his rugby career with Ballina-Killaloe RFC, playing his age-grade rugby at the club until he began his schools rugby with St Munchin’s College in Limerick.

“Gordon, who is the son of former Munster, Ireland and British and Irish Lion Keith, played in both the Munster schools boys junior and senior cup for St Munchin’s College and has represented Munster U18 Schools and Munster U19s.

“Wood made his senior AIL debut for Garryowen against Highfield at the beginning of the 2023/24 season and made a further 13 AIL appearances for the Limerick club in his debut season, including scoring a try in the play-off final which saw Garryowen promoted to Division 1A. In the current AIL campaign, Gordon has started all six games for Garryowen.

Team Form

Last 5 Games

2
Wins
2
0
Streak
1
17
Tries Scored
17
19
Points Difference
-16
3/5
First Try
2/5
4/5
First Points
3/5
1/5
Race To 10 Points
2/5

“Wood has trained regularly with the Munster senior squad in recent times and has also been involved in Munster A and Munster development games over the past 12 months. In September, Gordon made his first senior appearance against Gloucester in a pre-season friendly at Virgin Media Park.”

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Jesus PR that’s another great conclusion. I can definitely see it as blocker to bringing through new talent in time for the WC. NZ underwent a lot of change in 2018 following the Lions tour, in part thanks to key injuries. Despite the revenue spending Aaron Cruden (getting frail even at his young age then) and Lima Sopoaga (along with Julien Savea), 2 of the 3 1st5s in the Lions squad, both left before the 2019 WC for example. But when we apply your logic, their delayed departure prevented Richie Mounga and Damien McKenzie (the 15 who got injured and threw a spanner in the works) from brought through in what would possible now be considered the preferred WC preparation. Ditto on the win with a scramble of constant change their all the way through to their WC 3rd/4th playoff.


Theres certainly cause to account for certain circumstances eventuating being influenced by a Lions tour. But as both nations here select from domestic players only, theres also cause to put similar emphasis on the contracting model in general, as sometimes you can hold on too long. Ireland has a similar model, talking to another irishman here he suggests it has lead to selecting based on contracts, money being spent on a player centrally contracted. So I would not so much worry about fatigue (in part because some incomplete analysis I had done on all.rugby shows the Irish contingent have low minutes this year) but continuing to select underperforming and aging players. When in a pure context of building for a WC, one would normally want to move on an develop the future.

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