Tom Court was the last player in the Irish squad to tweet before No Craic Kidney imposed his Twitter blackout today, which will last from the days before a match to 24 hours after final whistle. Court had some inspirational words to offer the world about his ... optometrist. Seeing as all Irish players used Twitter for was posting photos of their dog, slagging Will Carling and communicating whether they ate in Nando's or Wagamama's, this just seems like a pretty pointless power play by management.
Apparently there was some disquiet within in the camp over critical tweets by the masses. A word of advice to the players: Twitter includes both a 'block' and 'unfollow' function. Far more worrying is Paul McNaughton's revelation about what's driving this blackout, which he says is just a trial run before the World Cup.
“We are developing the policy anyway because it will have to be a fairly rigid one in terms of the World Cup. Not so much in what they say to fans but in terms of commercial arrangements."
