Ireland u20 2013 6 nations and junior world cup

Hagz

irb junior player nominees

Jack Clifford (England)

Sam Davies (Wales)

Ardie Savea (New Zealand)

RobbieRuns

If England win Clifford will get it.

Hagz

Darren Sweetnam has been banned for 3 weeks for a spear tackle in the France game, so Adam Byrne will likely start on the right wing.

.ak

Hagz wrote: »

Darren Sweetnam has been banned for 3 weeks for a spear tackle in the France game, so Adam Byrne will likely start on the right wing.

What? But Sweetnam is tiny. The guy he lifted must've weighed nothing!

Lelantos

.ak wrote: »

What? But Sweetnam is tiny. The guy he lifted must've weighed nothing!

He's not that small, he's 6'1 or 6'2 & weighs 13.5-14 stone I think. Haven't seen the yellow card incident, but I'm guessing if it's a 3 week ban, he must barely have lifted him beyond horizontal.

.ak

Lelantos wrote: »

He's not that small, he's 6'1 or 6'2 & weighs 13.5-14 stone I think. Haven't seen the yellow card incident, but I'm guessing if it's a 3 week ban, he must barely have lifted him beyond horizontal.

Really? He looks about 11-12st!

Podge_irl

Lelantos wrote: »

He's not that small, he's 6'1 or 6'2 & weighs 13.5-14 stone I think. Haven't seen the yellow card incident, but I'm guessing if it's a 3 week ban, he must barely have lifted him beyond horizontal.

I think U20 bans are a bit lower anyway. The worst tip tackle I've ever seen only got about 8 weeks at that level.

the baby bull elephant

.ak wrote: »

Really? He looks about 11-12st!

Think you're getting mixed up. Darren Sweetman is the former hurler playing on the wing, Shanahan is the 15 year old scrumhalf.

Rightwing

the baby bull elephant wrote: »

Think you're getting mixed up. Darren Sweetman is the former hurler playing on the wing, Shanahan is the 15 year old scrumhalf.

Big loss to cork hurling by all accounts.

Fireball07

Rightwing wrote: »

Big loss to cork hurling by all accounts.

Serious hurler. He looked massive playing hurling, that's all I'll say.

backgreen

.ak wrote: »

What? But Sweetnam is tiny. The guy he lifted must've weighed nothing!

a tip tackle not a spear tackle..the tackle is one of sweetnam weak areas

Hagz

He's defended fantastically in the tournament so far (at least in the games that were televised).

thebaz

Hagz wrote: »

He's defended fantastically in the tournament so far (at least in the games that were televised).

he must good, if kept Adam Byrne of team

Fireball07

thebaz wrote: »

he must good, if kept Adam Byrne of team

In fairness, I think Byrne ruled himself out of the team with a pretty shocking defensive display..... he would have been ahead of him otherwise.

Hagz

1. Edward Byrne
2. Bryan Byrne
3. Chris Taylor
4. Gavin Thornbury
5. John Donnan
6. Dan Leavy
7. Josh Van der Flier
8. Conor Joyce
9. Luke McGrath
10. Steve Crosbie
11. Alex Wootton
12. Rory Scannell
13. Tom Farrell
14. Adam Byrne
15. Rory Scholes

16. George McGuigan
17. Ryan Furniss
18. Adam Boland
19. Sean McCarthy
20. Peadar Timmins
21. David Shanahan
22. Mark Roche
23. David Panter

Hagz

Game will not be televised idt:(

shuffol

I thought every squad member had to start a game in the JWC.

lurtz

has dave panter played a minute yet?

ormond lad

shuffol wrote: »

I thought every squad member had to start a game in the JWC.

That's brought up every year but don't think that's the case. Nearly all players are used due to close proximity of the 5 games we play in the competition but sometimes players not used

Lightbulb Sun

What's the deal with the scheduling for the JWC? Seems a bit silly to me having 5/7/9/11 place playoffs. Any reason behind it?

Tox56

Lightbulb Sun wrote: »

What's the deal with the scheduling for the JWC? Seems a bit silly to me having 5/7/9/11 place playoffs. Any reason behind it?

It's a development tournament, every team gets the same number of games regardless of results. It's primary function is to develop young talent rather than determine the best team, as is the case for most tournaments. The playoffs for lowest ranked team also determine who drops down to the lower level tournament next year

ormond lad

Lightbulb Sun wrote: »

What's the deal with the scheduling for the JWC? Seems a bit silly to me having 5/7/9/11 place playoffs. Any reason behind it?

To give games and more time for player development. Underage competition therefore I don't mind all teams getting plenty of games.
seedings decide the draw for group stage for following years competition so playoffs decide that.
also playoffs decide who is relegated to world trophy for the following year

ormond lad

Ireland losing 13-0. half an hour gone

Buer

20-0.

ormond lad

23-11 with 20mins left
Rory Scholes with the try

Hagz

28-17, Ireland wearing black

ormond lad

28-17 to Australia now

Buer

Would have been interesting to see what this team could have done with a good kicker. Australia have been 5/6 today. Ireland have been 4/7. We have consistently been very poor off the tee in this tournament with several kickers.

matthew8

Could they have hidden Ringrose on the wing or something? Would have been a drastic improvement in quality.

Hagz

matthew8 wrote: »

Could they have hidden Ringrose on the wing or something? Would have been a drastic improvement in quality.

Haha, no, I don't think so. I'm surprised that McGrath hasn't been kicking given how good he was off the tee at u-18 level.

Looking ahead to next year I don't know how strong we are in that are either. I presume Conor McKeon will be the goal-kicker.