3 days ago
Ryan Baird: I've learnt to be like Bruce Lee and go with the flow
An hour after the game ended at the Mikheil Meskhi Stadium last Saturday night, Ryan Baird strode from the Ireland dressing room towards the team bus, kit-bag in one hand, bluetooth speaker in the other. The tune was familiar: Days Like This, Van Morrison's sweet, optimistic jazz ballad. Not very Gen Z but appropriate to the night that was in it.
When it's not always raining, there'll be days like this.
When there's no one complaining, there'll be days like this.
Days like when you create a try for Craig Casey with a deliciously delayed Snymanesque offload. Days like when you pinch three Georgian balls at the front of the lineout and disrupt another. Had there been a man-of-the-match award, there was every chance that Baird would have pinched that, too.
