‘Maybe the opportunity is there, and it is… Tommy Bbboooowwwwwweee!’
Irish fans may have been screaming so much, in 2009, that they failed to fully drink in the supreme, excitable, definitely biased RTE commentary of Tommy Bowe’s sensational try against Wales.
Looking back, six years on, Ryle Nugent’s description, as Bowe scampers onto a Ronan O’Gara chip to leave Shane Williams & co. in his wake, is ingrained in our psyche.
Andrew Trimble has declared Bowe’s memorable score as his favourite ever in the Six Nations. Trimble, however, prefers to think of the try with the “iconic” commentary of the BBC’s Jim Neely in his head.
Neely’s voice-over goes as such: ‘Bowe gathers, Bowe gathers, Bowe gathers! Shane Williams is getting… he’s not going to get the Ulsterman. Bowe is in underneath the red posts. Holy God in Heaven! What a try by Tommy Bowe.’
Each to their own, but we still prefer Ryle:
You can listen to the Neely commentary here.
