The bandwagon is rolling: Kildare 4 Sam poster pops up at a rugby game in the Far East

It was a couple of years ago that the 'Mayo 4 Sam' bandwagon really got rolling as the Green and Red became constantly involved at the business end of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, and there were numerous pop-up posters, spray painting jobs and images of celebrities wearing Mayo jerseys at the time.

Kildare fans haven't really had the opportunity to hop on such a bandwagon with great haste in the last five years, and they still remain massive longshots to even win the Leinster title this year, but it seems that some fans are getting properly giddy.

The image of a Irish rugby supporter holding a 172-KE-Sam poster in the Ajinomoto Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, earlier this morning was certainly not one that we expected to see. The seemingly avid Kildare GAA fan was at Ireland's final test match of their Summer Tour to the Far East where they were taking on Japan.

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Whoever the lad cheering on Kildare in the crowd was, he was also likely to be shouting for Kill native James Tracy who was starting his first game in a green jersey. The Leinster hooker played 51 minutes of Ireland's 35-13 win over Japan, with Garry Ringrose, Josh Van Der Flier, Rhys Ruddock, Kieran Marmion and Sean Reidy all scoring tries for Joe Schmidt's side.