Speaking to Johnny Waterson in the Irish Times, USA coach Eddie O'Sullivan admitted he has experienced something of a culture shock since his days with Ireland.
There was moment in Eddie O’Sullivan’s rugby life during the USA rugby team’s camp in Colorado this summer when the realisation that he was now in a very different place was hammered home.
In the build-up to the USA’s match against Georgia in June, Alec Parker, the Eagles lock, informed his head coach, O’Sullivan, that on their day off on the Wednesday in the week of the match, he had to travel back to Aspen to save the hay.
Not only was Parker making the trip to his farm but he was taking three members of the US squad with him.
“Yeah, one of our locks is a farmer in Aspen. He’d no hay cut,” says O’Sullivan stoically.
“We were in camp so on the down day we sent three players with him to knock his hay. We’ve a lot of amateurs and even the professional players in the squad are division one in England or Italy.”
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