Marcus Horan

Marcus Horan.

Age/Date of birth – 31 – 7th Sept 1977
Position – Prop
Height – 1.85m
Weight – 105kg
Test caps – 61
Test debut – 10th June 2000 v USA as replacement
Test points – 30 – 6 Tries
Current club/Playing history – Shannon, Munster
Strengths – A blueprint for a modern day prop, Horan works like a fourth back-row forward as demonstrated by his 6 tries in 54 games.
Weaknesses – There have been dark mutterings about his competitiveness in the tight, but he's improved greatly and is a far better scrummager than originally credited, especially when working with his Munster team-mates, Hayes and Flannery.
Likely headline(s) – Horan it up!
Honours in the game – Munster:- European Champions 2006, 2008, Celtic League 2003, Triple Crown 2004, 2006, 2007,
Did you know? – Marcus waited two years between his first two caps. And he described his European Cup win with Munster thus :- “The bus journey to the stadium was very special. We hit the city centre and we saw a sea of red in front of us. There were guys with their fists in the air and tears in their eyes. Grown men crying right in front of us. It suddenly hit me what I was about to experience, because the injury had been the only thing in my head all week. Missing that day, when I'd been involved all season, would have broken my heart.”