A Team for Saturday

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15. Denis Hurley

14. Mark McCrea

13. Darren Cave

12. Keith Earls

11. Brian Tuohy

10. Johnny Sexton

9. Frank Murphy

1. Cian Healey

2. Denis Fogarty

3. Mike Ross

4. Donnacha Ryan

5. Bob Casey (captain)

6. Neil Best

7. Johnny O’Connor

8. Roger Wilson

Replacements

16. Tom Court

17. Sean Cronin

18. Trevor Hogan

19. David Pollock

20. Paul Marshall

21. Ian Keatley

22. Fergus McFadden


Interesting, no place for TOL, Lewis or Cauldwell in the 22.

Stev_o

Why Frank Murphy is only being started now is beyond me TOL has ****e for the whole tournament and we only improved when Murphy came on

zAbbo

Yeah, O'Leary was woeful, Murphy outshined him each time he came on.

Murphy really should have started the England game.

irishbucsfan

Whose Fergus McFadden and why did he get a place on the tour ahead of the likes of Fionn Carr or Felix Jones?

Malmedicine

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Whose Fergus McFadden and why did he get a place on the tour ahead of the likes of Fionn Carr or Felix Jones?

Leinster centre highly rated, injured in preseason missed the whole thing, ended up playing 1 AIL match with UCD last season, think Fionn Carr is injured and Fergus is IMHO a much better prospect than Jones

remus808

Nice, that 10-12-13 combo looks like an awesome attacking force, certainly better than what the senior side have been fielding! Good to see Murphy start aswell.. Those fellas will be lethal with quick ball

d-gal

Fionn Carr not injured. Don't know why he is not there. Croinin should be starting, one of our few prospects at hooker so should be developed. Hope keatley gets a full half at least, looks an interesting player. Thank god o'leary isn't playing, shocking

Crash

What times this on at?

Robbo

crash_000 wrote: »

What times this on at?

5:45 kickoff on Sky Sports 2.

Inquitus

I notice they played the National Anthem before this Argie game, whats with that? Are the A's not subject to the same rules as the national side re. the use of that tuneless dirge Ireland's Call when away?

dc69

They played amhran na bhfiann instead of Irelands call

Inquitus it was a mistake,they obviously couldnt find Irelands call cd.

Crash

Protocol mix up on the part of the organisers i'd say. Anyone mind keeping the updates going?

Inquitus

3-0

Sexton nearly created a try with some great play sucked in a couple of defenders and a really late offload.

Penalty, lineout - maul drives over for the score.

8-0

Inquitus

Sextons break led to the peno and the try, he also misses the conversion to leave it 8-0

madds

Conversion missed. Great start from Ireland though. Our pack are working very well together. Young Earls did very well in the lead up to the try.

Sparky14

Is there a link to this match? Am abroad and don't have sky or setanta.

Inquitus

lovely 3/4 move makes 60yds, shame about a forward pass a few phases later

Stev_o

Hint top Ulster sign Brian Tuohy and you have yourselves a very good winger with a actual prospect after preforming in the CC

dc69

Ire 21 arg 0

Inquitus

21-0 Halftime nearly

madds

Unfair to pick out one player, but Sexton's kicking and passing game have been top notch so far.

Edit - great tackle and steal from Best just at the break there.

dc69

Cian healy laying down the law at 20,Id say he would have killed both of them tbh lol

Nothingcompares

How do people rate Keatley? I met him recently in a club on leeson street. He's quite short, shorter than me and I'm 5'9" I would have thought not "big enough" for top level rugby.

madds

dc69 wrote: »

Cian healy laying down the law at 20,Id say he would have killed both of them tbh lol

Yeah - the 2 Argies turned round to see who had a hold of both their collars...then decided against taking action when they saw it was CH. Good to see an Irish taking the game to an Arg team for once, and rattling them.

dc69

Nothingcompares wrote: »

How do people rate Keatley? I met him recently in a club on leeson street. He's quite short, shorter than me and I'm 5'9" I would have thought not "big enough" for top level rugby.

I dont think it would matter that much tbh.Once your well built and strong your grand.I dont think his size would affect his chances.

His Leinster profile says he is 5'10 and 87 kg's?I see not reason they would lie in the profile.Maybe you are just alot taller than you thought?

http://www.leinsterrugby.ie/members/index.asp?locID=41&docID=1199

dc69

Dennis hurley is a grade A tool.If he had passed it was a try and he had about 4 seconds to do it,selfishness.

Edit,what a try.Keith Earls does the hard work,offloads to tuohy who passes to sexton who walks it.

Earls is brilliant and also very fast.If Munster dont want to play him ,he is more than welcome at Leinster:D

jamieh

Great to see Sexton crossing the line...well deserved!

dc69

who is the dwarf we have on?
Actual dwarf.

dc69

Keatley scores,what a try.Earls ran the pitch.Magnificent!

Ire 33 Arg 8

Final score

Inquitus

still time for more

Nothingcompares

he is in his bollox 5.10 and 87kg he's about 5 8 and about 80. good to see he scored and is doing well.

remus808

Is it just me or has Hurley been DIRE?

I guess we were all premature in touting him as a rival to Kearney after that QF.

RuggieBear

karmabass wrote: »

Is it just me or has Hurley been DIRE?

I guess we were all premature in touting him as a rival to Kearney after that QF.

to be fair to him he has been great running but just having a mare at catching. Kearny had a few shockers early on trying to catch the ball and he has improved. I expect hurley to do the same.