As an aside. I was told the other day thay the Jenkins deal wasnât a certainty to complete that still some kick back at IRFU level
Also⌠All the saffers at munster are 100% paid for privately⌠By fellas who would be well versed in payment mechanics
Private or not its beyond a joke. Is the same private investor paying some of zebos wages?
Donât know thay
I donât think its irrelevant really, a lock making his debut when he is 28 is unlikely to ever get up to speed properly at international level. Iâm never sure about the idea of a late bloomer, how much of that is due to not being given an opportunity earlier. I canât think of many players outside the front row who start that late and make any sort of impression.
I think your missing the point here. His club coaches didnât think he was good enough for a pro 14 game when he was at leinster.
Iâm only drawing lines. Zeebs coming back is great. Should never gave been let go
When he was 22. He done the brave thing by going to NZ, and has been at Connacht the last 4 years, often watching on as Quin Roux played ahead of him. Its only since Roux started missing most games through injury that he has been given his chance, and he has been very good.
Well he clearly blocked someone.
So we are agreed he wasnât great when he was young and he is a late bloomer. You didnât believe in that concept a few posts ago.
There is about 10 different reasons why Thornberry is now in the reckoning for an Irish cap and wasnt deemed good enough for a leinster cap when he was in his early 20s.roux is one, small, element in that.
A fella who was denied many caps by kleyn and Roux was Billy Holland, nobody crying about him because in reality everyone knows he wasnât international standard either
Well you wouldnât know really, whoâs to know who may have emerged if the saffer mercenaries werenât in? Somebody would have done a serviceable job
Youâre better than that surely. Sure Tom Aherne is nearly the same age and hasnât made much impression in Munster, he is hardly considered a late bloomer yet is he? A 22 year old lock is still very young.
Iâd say a lock these days is only hitting his straps in his mid to late twenties.
Ah come on, loads of project players have blocked loads of Irish players.
Peter OâMahony galloping down the wing 
Davy Tweed won his first cap when he was 35 and he turned out grand.
He had played for his country many times before that though
Coughlan
Harry Wilson for the Reds is going to be world player of the year in coming years. He is something else both with and without the ball.
Super he is.
Didnât realise that his loan spell under Big Mick at Cardiff was going so well!
Ah this is class