London Irish

|- | colspan=" 2" style=" text-align: center; padding: 0.5em; " bgcolor=" white" | |- | Club founded in | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| 1898 |- | Colors | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Green and Navy |- | Stage | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Madejski Stadium
(24 000 places) |- | Seat | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| The Avenue
Sunbury-on-Thames
TW16 5EQ Middlesex |}

London Irish RFC is a club of Rugby English which evolves/moves in the Guinness Premiership. The London club, founded in 1898, plays Madejski Stadium . It is the club of Irish of London.

History

Origins

The London Irish , also called Exiled the , is a club based in 1898 by young Irish of London on the already existing model of the clubs of the London Welsh and London Scottish.

London Irish suffered during the First World War and the Irish civil war. It is only starting from 1923 with the creation of the free State of Ireland and the return to peace that the club could again regularly accommodate players from Ireland.

The first international Irish of the club, between 1925 and 1929, was S J " Caggs" Cagney with 13 courses. Starting from 1931, the club settles with The Avenue with Sunbury, which is today the seat and the spiritual house of club, although the club plays from now on Madejski Stadium .

Its development

The club knew various fortunes during the the Fifties with great victories but also much of defeats, in spite of the presence of talented players like Mike Gibson, Tony O' Reilly and Ollie Waldron. It is one period when the club started to play of the meetings of qualities, such as for example vis-a-vis Coventry.

This rise of the level of the meetings continued in the the Sixties, and obliged the club to change method of drive like its way of playing.

The the Seventies were records for the club, which under the control of its emblematic talonnor Ken Kennedy and helps it exceptional players such Mick Molloy and Barry Bresnihan, became a fortified town of British Rugby. At the time of the season 1976-77, London Irish finish in the first place of the classification for the District of London with six victories out of seven matches.

The the Eighties will be as for them quite as irregular as the the Fifties, with in particular a final of Coupe of lost England.

Since the years 1990

It is at the time of season 1990-91 that the club obtains its ticket to go up in the elite of English Rugby, namely the recent whole Championnat of England of the first division. The team consequently continued to accommodate international Irish of which Simon Geoghegan, Jim Staples, David Curtis and Rob Saunders (the youngest captain of the history of the Équipe of Ireland at 22 years).

The heavy financial and sporting requirements of high level Rugby had important consequences on the club. At the financial level, Exiled the knew several overdrawn exercises filled by generous Irish benefactors. In the same way at the sporting level, the club went down in the second division at the end of the season 1993-94 to go up only two years later.

The beginning of the millennium proves more prosperous with a fourth place in championship, the best classification of the history of the club, at the time of the season 2001-02 and especially a victory in Coupe of England this same year.

Manpower 2006-07

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Trainers

Famous players

Prize list

  • Victorious of the Cut of England: 2002

Cut of England

External bond

  • Official site

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