NEWseason launches tend to be tedious exercises: a stream of coaches and players trotting out a stream of banalities, clichés and statements of the obvious. At least one player has seen all that for what it is and actually said what he really thinks.
Take a bow, Andrew Trimble. Ulster’s Ireland wing has been around long enough to see through the flim-flam, aware that his native province has promised much in recent seasons and achieved precious little.
“A lot of people are sick of hearing our intentions, our goals, our aspirations,” he said at the midweek launch of t...