Ireland vs Fiji. 5:15pm Sat 21 Nov 2009, RDS, Pre/Post/During Match Thread

thomond2006

Ireland:
R Kearney; S Horgan, B O'Driscoll, capt, G D'Arcy, K Earls; J Sexton, E Reddan; T Court, J Flannery, J Hayes, L Cullen, P O'Connell, S Ferris, D Leamy, J Heaslip.

Replacements: S Cronin, T Buckley, D O'Callaghan, S O'Brien, T O'Leary, P Wallace, A Trimble.

Fiji:
N Ligairi; V Goneva, G Lovobalavu, S Baikeinuku, N Roko; N Little, M Rauluni; A Tarogi, V Veikoso, V Seuseu; W Lewaravu, I Rawaqa; A Satala, A Qera, A Boko.

Replacements: I Ledua, G Dewes, L Nakarawa, S Bola, W Vatuvoka, J Matavesi, T Nagusa.

LIVE ON RTÉ2 and BBC (red button).

Opportunity knocks for some of our up and coming stars to stake a place in Irish XVs of the future.

Let's be honest though, this game focuses on one player, and his quest to seize the Irish jersey from He Who Must Not Be Named. Let's hope he gets good service from the pack and fellow halfback Eoin Reddan so he run the show. Good luck to him and let's pray he takes his chance.

Ireland by 25.

boru05

Is Healy badly injured?

Stev_o

What broadcaster is showing this?

stephen_n

thomond2006 wrote: »

Let's be honest though, this game focuses on one player, and his quest to seize the Irish jersey from He Who Must Not Be Named. Let's hope he gets good service from the pack and fellow halfback Eoin Reddan so he run the show. Good luck to him and let's pray he takes his chance.

Ireland by 25.

Game focuses on a lot more than just the ten spot, think by including Leamy we are loosing out on a oppertunity to look at our future prospects at 7, Don't get me wrong I like Leamy as a player and he has always performed well in the past for Ireland but he is not and never will be a 7. Same goes for Shaggy think there were better options on the wing. I'm surprised we played so many of the first choice team and think BOD should have been rested. Having said that will be interesting to see how the 9-13 axis works as it may determine who gets the 12 between darcy and Wallace for the saffer game!

thomond2006

stephen_n wrote: »

Game focuses on a lot more than just the ten spot, think by including Leamy we are loosing out on a oppertunity to look at our future prospects at 7, Don't get me wrong I like Leamy as a player and he has always performed well in the past for Ireland but he is not and never will be a 7. Same goes for Shaggy think there were better options on the wing. I'm surprised we played so many of the first choice team and think BOD should have been rested. Having said that will be interesting to see how the 9-13 axis works as it may determine who gets the 12 between darcy and Wallace for the saffer game!

All true

Mothman

This is on tomorrow the 21st isn't it?
Might be idea to edit title....

tolosenc

This is tomorrow, yeah?

ScrubsfanChris

Stev_o wrote: »

What broadcaster is showing this?

RTE TWO and on the BBC Sport website.

anonymous_joe

Cannot wait. Have my ticket ready and waiting.

danthefan

boru05 wrote: »

Is Healy badly injured?

He'll be ok for the SA game apparently.

conf101

Seems like this is gonna be a very wet one.....

phog

stephen_n wrote: »

Game focuses on a lot more than just the ten spot, think by including Leamy we are loosing out on a oppertunity to look at our future prospects at 7, Don't get me wrong I like Leamy as a player and he has always performed well in the past for Ireland but he is not and never will be a 7. Same goes for Shaggy think there were better options on the wing. I'm surprised we played so many of the first choice team and think BOD should have been rested. Having said that will be interesting to see how the 9-13 axis works as it may determine who gets the 12 between darcy and Wallace for the saffer game!

Kidney is a very clever manager and my reading is BOD is there as support for Sexton, Leamy is being tried at 7 so that he would have cover on the bench for a 6, 7 and 8 if he ever has Leamy on the bench. Shaggy is only a few months older than BOD and is in way better form than last year so I wouldn't rule him just yet. He is a very strong winger and is possibly getting his chance to lay a stake on the wing against SA.

stephen_n

phog wrote: »

Kidney is a very clever manager and my reading is BOD is there as support for Sexton, Leamy is being tried at 7 so that he would have cover on the bench for a 6, 7 and 8 if he ever has Leamy on the bench. Shaggy is only a few months older than BOD and is in way better form than last year so I wouldn't rule him just yet. He is a very strong winger and is possibly getting his chance to lay a stake on the wing against SA.

Shaggy's form is great and has been since the middle of last year but bar several injuries I can't see him coming back into the side for the 6N

Podge_irl

stephen_n wrote: »

Shaggy's form is great and has been since the middle of last year but bar several injuries I can't see him coming back into the side for the 6N

If either Bowe or BOD get injured I think we'll see Horgan back in the side - he'll drop right in to replace Bowe or take Bowe's slot with Bowe going to OC if BOD is injured. So really not all that unlikely.

Eoin

News reports indicate it's going to be very bad conditions tomorrow - hope it won't take away from the game too much.

icdg

thomond2006 wrote: »

LIVE ON RTÉ2 and BBC (red button).

BBC Two Northern Ireland (version most of us in the Republic have) will also have the match live 17:00 - 19:15.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/programmes/schedules/ni/2009/11/21

Hopefully the weather won't be too bad.

DBraithwaite

danthefan wrote: »

He'll be ok for the SA game apparently.

boru05 wrote: »

Is Healy badly injured?

No, minor shoulder problem. Just a precaution really.

KELTICKNIGHTT

they should win this,

DBraithwaite

KELTICKNIGHTT wrote: »

they should win this,

A well thought out post. You must have been fine tuning that for days. Delighted to get it off your chest, were you?

And to sum it all up a wonderful observation!

KELTICKNIGHTT

DBraithwaite wrote: »

A well thought out post. You must have been fine tuning that for days. Delighted to get it off your chest, were you?

And to sum it all up a wonderful observation![/QUOT
smart mouth as usual

KELTICKNIGHTT

DBraithwaite wrote: »

A well thought out post. You must have been fine tuning that for days. Delighted to get it off your chest, were you?

And to sum it all up a wonderful observation![/QUOT


smart mouth as usual

fifth

Anyway back on topic. I've slight concerns for the weather, we'll still win but the margin depends on weather. I'd say Ireland by 20.

Grimebox

is this being played in the rds? is it sold out does anyone know?

i cant help but find it funny that you edited your post to include a red and larger font but failed the fix the quote bracket!

eyeball kid

Yeah, been played in the RDS. First international play there I think.

Not sure about the tickets. I would be surprised if they were all sold out though.

chupacabra

Look at the RTE preview picture they are using for their match preview:



Honestly.... why do media outlets always pick the absolute worst photograph to accompany their articles?

chupacabra

chupacabra wrote: »

Honestly.... why do media outlets always pick the absolute worst photograph to accompany their articles?

Its funny

damselnat

chupacabra wrote: »

Look at the RTE preview picture they are using for their match preview:



Honestly.... why do media outlets always pick the absolute worst photograph to accompany their articles?

irishbucsfan

damselnat wrote: »

OldJay

damselnat wrote: »

Lol!
Now I cant get that song out of my head. Thanks!

Judgement Day

There are definitely some advantages to being an old fart as I don't have a clue who the three boyos are! Are they famous?

Sangre

You've never heard of Jim Carey, Chris Kattan or Will Farrell?

anonymous_joe

Judgement Day wrote: »

There are definitely some advantages to being an old fart as I don't have a clue who the three boyos are! Are they famous?

:eek:

'It's a nightclub that looks like the inside of a nightclub on the outside, and the outside of a nightclub on the inside.'

gcgirl

D/P

gcgirl

I hate posting youtube vids here !!argh

Chucky the tree

gcgirl wrote: »

D/P

You just forgot the forward slash for the second youtube tag.

OldJay

Judgement Day wrote: »

There are definitely some advantages to being an old fart as I don't have a clue who the three boyos are! Are they famous?

Song is 'What is Love' by Haddaway (silly Euro dance track).
The pic is from a brilliant regular Saturday Night Live sketch (later made into a bad bad movie however - called 'Night at the Roxbury'?) where Chris Kattan and Will Ferrell and that week's guest hit the town.
It was so funny. From around 1991-1992.
Used to show the whole lot on Arena channel in Australia. Had the lot on video til a work mate bloody lost it on me.

SNL patrol the internet to shut down any clips from their shows so I couldn't find an original clip that didn't have any overdub by the person posting it unfortunately.

peterako

Decided to visit the Fiji Rugby website and came across this blog note:

http://www.fijirugby.com/pages.cfm/fru-news?newsid=europe-diary-day-14--sean-hurler

Cannot help but warm to the guys!

I have a few small regrets in life, one was turning down ain invitation to travel to Fiji.

Was overwelmed by the Fijian's:

- Generosity
- SIZE!

I felt like a baby shaking hands with giants

Looking forward to the match today....though I'll probably look like a prune after

Peter B

Kidney is a Genius. Giving Sexton his first cap against a weaker international opposition in Leinsters home graound the RDS, surrounded by his Leinster team mates. No excuse now!

Heard a rumour that this might be called off? Can anyone shed some light on this?

PhatPiggins

peterako wrote: »

Decided to visit the Fiji Rugby website and came across this blog note:

http://www.fijirugby.com/pages.cfm/fru-news?newsid=europe-diary-day-14--sean-hurler

Cannot help but warm to the guys!

I have a few small regrets in life, one was turning down ain invitation to travel to Fiji.

Was overwelmed by the Fijian's:

- Generosity
- SIZE!

I felt like a baby shaking hands with giants

Looking forward to the match today....though I'll probably look like a prune after

You didn't miss anything its by and large a dump. Lots of poverty,crime and racial tension with the Indian population. Images of an Island paradise are wide of the mark.

I lived in NZ for a few years and the Fijians are great neighbours but if you want a living example of a tribal culture unable to embrace the modern world its Fiji. Some of the smaller remote islands are nice though.

fifth

Deleted User wrote: »

Heard a rumour that this might be called off? Can anyone shed some light on this?

Haven't heard anything, where you hear this? Hope it's not true.

Weather in RDS looks fine now where mcgurk is.

seandugg

has anyone else lost tv reception on rte 2?

thomond2006

A bit of reception trouble a few minutes ago.

Seems fine now.

Spore

Man, their forwards are ugly!

Munster Blogger

seandugg wrote: »

has anyone else lost tv reception on rte 2?

Mine is ok in Limerick

efb

Bump and Grind match!

Munster Blogger

If you listen to enough of Hook you get relly angry :mad:.

Spore

Munster Blogger wrote: »

If you listen to enough of Hook you get relly angry :mad:.

yep, the man does virtually no analysis, relies on what he thinks are really clever metaphors, will tell you black is white just for arguing's sake.

Spore

C'mon Ireland!

Spore

Weather's just turned, mightn't be the try fest we hoped for now

Munster Blogger

Spore wrote: »

yep, the man does virtually no analysis, relies on what he thinks are really clever metaphors, will tell you black is white just for arguing's sake.

I would love to see him coach Ireland for a season. Get some great selection and tactics.