Ireland A vs Georgia sunday june 14th 10.30pm

chupacabra

Team announced:

IRELAND 'A' TEAM & REPLACEMENTS (v Georgia, 2009 Churchill Cup, Infinity Park, Glendale, Colorado, Sunday, June 14, kick-off 3.30pm local time/10.30pm Irish time):

15 - Felix Jones (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
14 - Simon Keogh (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
13 - Fergus McFadden (UCD/Leinster)
12 - James Downey (Northampton Saints)
11 - Johne Murphy (Leicester)
10 - Niall O'Connor (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster)
9 - Frank Murphy (Buccaneers/Connacht)
1 - Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster)
2 - Denis Fogarty (Cork Constitution/Munster)
3 - Tony Buckley (Shannon/Munster)
4 - Trevor Hogan (Blackrock College/Leinster)
5 - Donnacha Ryan (Shannon/Munster)
6 - Neil Best (Northampton Saints)
7 - Niall Ronan (Shannon/Munster)
8 - John Muldoon (Galwegians/Connacht) (capt)

Replacements:

16 - Sean Cronin (Buccaneers/Connacht)
17 - Bryan Young (Ballymena/Ulster)
18 - Devin Toner (Lansdowne/Leinster)
19 - Chris Henry (Ballymena/Ulster)
20 - Isaac Boss (Ballymena/Ulster)
21 - Jonathan Sexton (St. Mary's College/Leinster)
22 - Keith Matthews (Buccaneers/Connacht)

Looks a strong selection but again, why persist with Niall O'Connor when Sexton was clearly playing with alot of confidence and made an impact when he came on against canada. Also looking forward to seeing Felix Jones.
The game is being shown on Sky Sports 2.

Stev_o

chupacabra wrote: »

Team announced:

IRELAND 'A' TEAM & REPLACEMENTS (v Georgia, 2009 Churchill Cup, Infinity Park, Glendale, Colorado, Sunday, June 14, kick-off 3.30pm local time/10.30pm Irish time):

15 - Felix Jones (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
14 - Simon Keogh (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
13 - Fergus McFadden (UCD/Leinster)
12 - James Downey (Northampton Saints)
11 - Johne Murphy (Leicester)
10 - Niall O'Connor (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster)
9 - Frank Murphy (Buccaneers/Connacht)
1 - Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster)
2 - Denis Fogarty (Cork Constitution/Munster)
3 - Tony Buckley (Shannon/Munster)
4 - Trevor Hogan (Blackrock College/Leinster)
5 - Donnacha Ryan (Shannon/Munster)
6 - Neil Best (Northampton Saints)
7 - Niall Ronan (Shannon/Munster)
8 - John Muldoon (Galwegians/Connacht) (capt)

Replacements:

16 - Sean Cronin (Buccaneers/Connacht)
17 - Bryan Young (Ballymena/Ulster)
18 - Devin Toner (Lansdowne/Leinster)
19 - Chris Henry (Ballymena/Ulster)
20 - Isaac Boss (Ballymena/Ulster)
21 - Jonathan Sexton (St. Mary's College/Leinster)
22 - Keith Matthews (Buccaneers/Connacht)

Looks a strong selection but again, why persist with Niall O'Connor when Sexton was clearly playing with alot of confidence and made an impact when he came on against canada. Also looking forward to seeing Felix Jones.
The game is being shown on Sky Sports 2.

Sexton has bigger things to come maybe? It is a development tour i think Kidney feels he already knows everything he wants to about Sexton from the HC possibly and is trying to develop other players while having him there to make sure it doesn't go to shit? Great to see Downey get a run and thank you God Hurley is nowhere to be seen

Is Jones the one that's going to Munster in September or is it a different guy?

[Jackass]

Stev_o wrote: »

Sexton has bigger things to come maybe? It is a development tour i think Kidney feels he already knows everything he wants to about Sexton from the HC possibly and is trying to develop other players while having him there to make sure it doesn't go to shit? Great to see Downey get a run and thank you God Hurley is nowhere to be seen

Is Jones the one that's going to Munster in September or is it a different guy?

Same guy. He's class, and a Munster player now

In fairness though, how many players do Leinster have at their disposal in the back 3? Especially full back. He was never going to get his chance.

I think that's sh*t about Sexton. Develop your best players.....especially if you want to ease them into international rugby with Ireland A first.

O'Connor has been very average all season, shocking that Sexton isn't getting game time as first choice for the A's.

funky penguin

Excellent to see Healy starting. Really excited about his international career. Pity about Sexton, but I'm sure he'll get 80 mins soon enough!

GymJim

Stev_o wrote: »

Sexton has bigger things to come maybe? It is a development tour i think Kidney feels he already knows everything he wants to about Sexton from the HC possibly and is trying to develop other players while having him there to make sure it doesn't go to shit? Great to see Downey get a run and thank you God Hurley is nowhere to be seen

Is Jones the one that's going to Munster in September or is it a different guy?

Same Jones yes. Good player actually.

Agree re Sexton. We know we have 2 viable OH's so might aswell see if we have another potential option for the future by giving him gametime now. Sexton will be in 22 for AI's anyway.

Downey is a good player and while I don't trust Hurley have to be fair and he say he wasn't so bad last week. Bit of credit but still defo not an international FB...would question if he'll be with Munster beyond this season anyway as it looks like Jones signing will push him back to playing for Con each week and not even in ML 22's.

Stev_o

[Jackass] wrote: »

Same guy. He's class, and a Munster player now

In fairness though, how many players do Leinster have at their disposal in the back 3? Especially full back. He was never going to get his chance.

I think that's sh*t about Sexton. Develop your best players.....especially if you want to ease them into international rugby with Ireland A first.

O'Connor has been very average all season, shocking that Sexton isn't getting game time as first choice for the A's.

Kidney has given two games to Kealtley now two games to NOC and will probably finish with giving the rest to Sexton.

I don't see what the problem is OH is a major worry position for us so why not try out all the viable options and see if we discover a jem. Plus it's Georgia ffs it's going to be a handy victory playing Sexton is pointless, this allows NOC to get alot of confidence which will help him in his development.

funky penguin

Thought something was weird, no O'Brien. Seems he's gone home with a knee injury. Very tough for him.

danthefan

funky penguin wrote: »

Thought something was weird, no O'Brien. Seems he's gone home with a knee injury. Very tough for him.

Yeah he's back home. Hope it's not serious.

thebaz

remember the last time we played Georgia, we were lucky to win with a full strength team

funky penguin

Ugh, don't remind us! :P

To be fair, was 2 years ago and a completely different set of circumstances and coaching staff. Completely different team as well!

Although, Georgia will remember!

bleg

deccie knows what he's doing with out half building competition between these three up and coming players can only be a good thing

accensi0n

Anyone know of a stream for this? Cheers.

thomond2006

Georgia +40 at 10/11 seems a decent wager tbh.

They can't be that bad. Are they missing their French based players?

dreamer_ire

accensi0n wrote: »

Anyone know of a stream for this? Cheers.

http://www.justin.tv/kostaz007/popout

Stev_o

Could be called off, a tornado warning is going around.

chupacabra

Stev_o wrote: »

Could be called off, a tornado warning is going around.

Lightning storm Wednesday... tornadoes today, the Irish have bad luck with the weather don't we?

Junior

Looks like it's going ahead, they've just said they've had 4 Tornado warnings.

Stev_o

Excuse me while i cut my ears off.

Irjudge1

If anything will rob the passion from the team it was that horrible rendition of irelands call.

Stev_o

Man Georgia's scrum is something else sent us back at a rate of knots there

conf101

Bad miss there from O'Connor!

Look at how small the Georgian no. 6 is! He's tall but not very bulky!!

duckysauce

whats flannery doing there?

Stev_o

duckysauce wrote: »

whats flannery doing there?

rehab

Stev_o

Murphy your a legend keep it up son

Stev_o

Fadden certainly knows how to get to the try line 18-0

Stev_o

Healy is being destroyed in the scrums =/

Results in a try for Georgia

anonymous_joe

Stev_o wrote: »

Healy is being destroyed in the scrums =/

So's Buckley... So are Ireland in general.

Georgia doing what they do best.

Stev_o

anonymous_joe wrote: »

So's Buckley... So are Ireland in general.

Georgia doing what they do best.

Pressue came on healy though that lead to that try he popped up due to the pressure. Funny how someone can survive White and Castraogivania and then gets completely man handled by a semi pro

thomond2006

Why do they have to have the Churchill Cup in North America?

It would be cool to have it in Ireland and have all the Ireland A games at TP.

Stev_o

thomond2006 wrote: »

Why do they have to have the Churchill Cup in North America?

It would be cool to have it in Ireland and have all the Ireland A games at TP.

The whole idea is to develop rugby in the US and Canada and to get it more exposure.

conf101

Great try for Jones, well worked!

thomond2006

We've just signed Keith Earls II. :)

Thanks Leinster.

conf101

Lads O'Connor's kicking is terrible again, sexton to come on at half time!

corny

conf101 wrote: »

Lads O'Connor's kicking is terrible again

Its a shame too because he's moving the backs around quite well.

Stev_o

When you look up the word verbal diarrhea you'll see a picture of Mark Robson.

chupacabra

Decent first half. I would maybe have liked to see McFadden take the last few kicks as O'Connor is having a really bad day with the boot. Sexton on in the second half and it should be done and dusted.

yoursaviour1989

can they not let mcfadden kick, o'connor just doesnt seem up to goal kicking, last effort was terrible

anonymous_joe

Stev_o wrote: »

Pressue came on healy though that lead to that try he popped up due to the pressure. Funny how someone can survive White and Castraogivania and then gets completely man handled by a semi pro

Georgian semi-pros. Doing better than the first team did in 07. :pac:

Wonder what a full Georgian team could do?

Stev_o

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Georgian semi-pros. Doing better than the first team did in 07. :pac:

Wonder what a full Georgian team could do?

Scrum and maul some more. They have some handy players who are quaility id say they could match the likes of the USA Tonga Canada etc but wouldn't pose a threat against us UNLESS the team suddenly shrank and decided they didn't like playing against big teams.

thomond2006

Jaysus, Ulster have two really sh!te fly halves.

bigbadben

Whats the score lads?

Stev_o

Id like to see NOC bring his wings into the game Murphy and Keogh have hardly seen the ball despite us having all the possesion

conf101

bigbadben wrote: »

Whats the score lads?

33-5 conversion to come

McFadden converts, 35-5

conf101

Ha, funny stuff there from Thomás O'Leary

Stev_o

conf101 wrote: »

Ha, funny stuff there from Thomás O'Leary

Missed it what did he do?

kmart6

Stev_o wrote: »

Missed it what did he do?

Held a sign over Flannery's head saying ''Flan wears girls glasses!''....Gas!!!

Robbo

Stev_o wrote: »

Missed it what did he do?

Wrote "Fla wears girls glasses" on a piece of paper and held it in shot beside Flannery's head.

Stev_o

Ha legend.

anonymous_joe

Stev_o wrote: »

Scrum and maul some more. They have some handy players who are quaility id say they could match the likes of the USA Tonga Canada etc but wouldn't pose a threat against us UNLESS the team suddenly shrank and decided they didn't like playing against big teams.

True that. Hopefully they'll see some improvement soon. Doing wlel in the cup below the 6N aren't they?

Nothingcompares

never mind

dreamer_ire

Who is the idiot commentating? He's woeful