RUGBY MATTERSBRENDAN GALLAGHER

I WAS struck by an interesting tweet this week from respected New Zealand rugby journo Jim Keyes who calculated that of the top seven try scorers for the All Blacks in all games five had been right wings, a list headed by Dougie Howlett with John Kirwan not far behind.The only interlopers were flanker Ian Kirkpatrick and Christian Cullen who played in three positions behind the scrum.The moot point was that all rugby convention suggests in a world full of right-handed people (70 per cent is the official estimate) passing left to right is generally co...