Ireland Summer 2009

TarfHead

The penny just dropped with me that Ireland play Canada on the same day as the HEC final. What 'genius' agreed to that one :rolleyes: ?

Ireland play Canada & USA on May 23 & May 30. Wales play them May 30 & June 06. Could we not have scheduled our games for the same 2 dates ?

I haven't found any detail for this year's Churchill Cup. Anyone know if it is not being held this year ? If Canada & USA are hosting Ireland & Wales, does that precluse the CC ?

Podge_irl

The Churchill Cup is going ahead this year after the summer tests. Ireland A, Canada, USA, England A, Argentina A and Georgia I think are in it.
The scheduling is not ideal (the first Lions tour game suffers from a similar problem I think), but it will be largely a shadow side anyway. I imagine the summer tour squad and Churchill Cup squad will have a reasonable amount of overlap. Thankfully from Kidney's point of view, at least one of Leinster or Munster won't be in the final.

Macsimus

TarfHead wrote: »

The penny just dropped with me that Ireland play Canada on the same day as the HEC final. What 'genius' agreed to that one :rolleyes: ?

Ireland play Canada & USA on May 23 & May 30. Wales play them May 30 & June 06. Could we not have scheduled our games for the same 2 dates ?

I haven't found any detail for this year's Churchill Cup. Anyone know if it is not being held this year ? If Canada & USA are hosting Ireland & Wales, does that precluse the CC ?

I dont know, if times are complementary it means were in for HC final and international development match one after the other, souns like Super Saturday to me - Hopefully just enough time for a bbq between games :cool:

JohnMc1

Sorry for bumping an old thread but does anyone know if the Ireland vs USA Eagles match will be televised here by any chance?

sock puppet

JohnMc1 wrote: »

Sorry for bumping an old thread but does anyone know if the Ireland vs USA Eagles match will be televised here by any chance?

Yeah Setanta are showing it.

Moncti48

Summer Internations
Ireland v Canada 23rd of May @ 15.00
Ireland V US 31st of May @ 13.00

Church hill Cup
Ireland A v Canada 10th of June @ 16.30
Ireland A v Georgia 14th of June @ 15.30

Challenge Cup
Final 22nd of May

Heineken Final
Final 23rd of may

Lions Tour Starts on the 30th of May and Ends on the 4th july

JohnMc1

sock puppet wrote: »

Yeah Setanta are showing it.

Thanks sock puppet.

danthefan

Ireland will be missing in excess of 35 players for this tour.

Gelio

danthefan wrote: »

Ireland will be missing in excess of 35 players for this tour.

I wouldn't get too worried, it will probably just be used as a chance to try out players such as cave on an international field

chupacabra

The welsh squad is being announced this week, any news when the irish squad will be named?

Stealdo

ajeffares wrote: »

I wouldn't get too worried, it will probably just be used as a chance to try out players such as cave on an international field

Bit crazy handing out international caps for it all the same. With so many front line players missing.

Serenity Now!

danthefan wrote: »

Ireland will be missing in excess of 35 players for this tour.

Where did you figure this 35 absentees from? 13 (probably back to 14 if d'Arcy goes with the Lions) with how many injuries? What about the rest?

danthefan

Stealdo wrote: »

Bit crazy handing out international caps for it all the same. With so many front line players missing.

Does cheapen the caps a bit imo, you'll get a few players there who'll never get near an Irish shirt again imo. Terrible scheduling is to blame anyway and that's it.

anonymous_joe

Serenity Now! wrote: »

Where did you figure this 35 absentees from? 13 (probably back to 14 if d'Arcy goes with the Lions) with how many injuries? What about the rest?

12 Lions, Leinster squad, 2 Tigers, 2 Northampton Saints. That's all I can think of.

danthefan

anonymous_joe wrote: »

12 Lions, Leinster squad, 2 Tigers, 2 Northampton Saints. That's all I can think of.

There's more than 2 at Northampton I think. But the entire Leinster squad + 7 Munster Lions is the bulk of it. Leinster will possibly bring players outside of the matchday 22 along too just in case.

Edit - list of players unavailable for seniour tour to North America (very much open to correction so don't hang me if there's a mistake!)

Bowe, O'Connell, O'Callaghan, O'Driscoll, Kearney, Fitzgerald, Ferris, Quinlan, D Wallace, O'Gara, Heaslip, Flannery, Earls, O'Kelly, Dempsey, Horgan, D'Arcy, Cullen, Jackman, Jennings, Hogan, Sexton, Healy, O'Brien, J Fogarty, Toner, McFadden (??), G Murphy, J Murphy, N Best, Wilson, Downey, Everitt, O'Leary, Trimble, Pollock (think he's injured).

Hell of a lot more than 14 anyway.

Serenity Now!

anonymous_joe wrote: »

12 Lions, Leinster squad, 2 Tigers, 2 Northampton Saints. That's all I can think of.

Ah yes. I see now.

It will be an ideal chance for rest of Irish playerbase to impress Dec, Gert and Les though before the Lions tour sets where they will no doubt be watching the Irish contingent play there too.
The reason the caps are awarded I'd say would be because fair is fair re.respect to the teams they play.

Depp

Are Munster Playing The Usa This Summer Again?