Rugby World Cup Warmups IRE vs ITA

connemara man

You cant play your way onto the plane to Japan but you definitely can play your way off it.
Form is temporary class is permanent
anther cliché bandied about

Ireland
15. Jordan Larmour
14. Andrew Conway
13. Garry Ringrose
12. Chris Farrell
11. Dave Kearney
10. Joey Carbery
9. Luke McGrath
1. Jack McGrath
2. Rob Herring
3. Andrew Porter
4. Devin Toner
5. Jean Kleyn
6. Rhys Ruddock (C)
7. Tommy O'Donnell
8. Jordi Murphy
Replacements
16. Niall Scannell
17. Cian Healy
18. John Ryan
19. Iain Henderson
20. Tadhg Beirne
21. Kieran Marmion
22. Jack Carty
23. Mike Haley

Italy
Edoardo Padovani
Angelo Esposito
Tomasso Benvenuti
Marco Zanon
Giulio Besigni
Carlo Canna
Giuglielmo Palazzani
Nicola Quaglio
Olivero Fabiani
Marco Riccioni
Allessandro Zanni
Dean Budd
Giovanni Licata
Maxime Mbanda
Jimmy Tuivaiti
Replacements:
Federico Zani
Andrea Lovotti
Simone Ferrari
Marco Lazzardni
Renato Giammarioli
Calum Bradley
Ian McKinley
Mateo Minozz

randomname2005

Hopefully McKinley will get on for a good bit of the game. Delighted for him if he can make a WC squad.

sydthebeat

Callum Braley*

Digifriendly

Obviously a lot of interest in this match given the no. of posts so far.
Don't expect a sell out.

mfceiling

Can anyone recommend a bar in Catania that will be showing the game.

*Absolutely shameless post to show I'm on holidays*

swiwi_

Digifriendly wrote: »

Obviously a lot of interest in this match given the no. of posts so far.

Strikes me that it’s been a while since the forum has had a Rhys Ruddock discussion. I’m sort of wondering whether he can play lock and what conclusions can be drawn from his Leinster and Irish appearances to date.

Yeah_Right

mfceiling wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a bar in Catania that will be showing the game.

*Absolutely shameless post to show I'm on holidays*

Pretty sure that the Farkofandie Pub will be showing it

Former Former

Digifriendly wrote: »

Obviously a lot of interest in this match given the no. of posts so far.
Don't expect a sell out.

The number of tickets available on Ticketmaster is looking embarrassing

sydthebeat

Former Former wrote: »

The number of tickets available on Ticketmaster is looking embarrassing

Pricing structure is ridiculous.

If 2 parents and a child want to go tomorrow your looking at about €120.

Yet over half the stadium will be empty.

Legion2008

Yup .... looked at bringing the kids earlier in the week but for what is a pre season friendly it’s over priced.

The Welsh game in a few weeks is even more expensive.

Given the forecasted weather tomorrow there’ll be few walk ups.

Former Former

sydthebeat wrote: »

Pricing structure is ridiculous.

If 2 parents and a child want to go tomorrow your looking at about €120.

Yet over half the stadium will be empty.

And all the event junkies will be across town at the GAA. I know I will.

Podge_irl

I'm relatively sure I went to the England preseason game where Wallace got injured for a tenner a pop.

Shefwedfan

Lack of capital letters in the title is concerning to me :-)

Great to have rugby back, too many weekends with the kids recently

The Lost Sheep

sydthebeat wrote: »

Pricing structure is ridiculous.

If 2 parents and a child want to go tomorrow your looking at about €120.

Yet over half the stadium will be empty.

school kid tickets for a tenner and what price would you set

Legion2008 wrote: »

Yup .... looked at bringing the kids earlier in the week but for what is a pre season friendly it’s over priced.

The Welsh game in a few weeks is even more expensive.

Given the forecasted weather tomorrow there’ll be few walk ups.

school boy/girl tickets are a tenner so not overpriced at all and what price would you see as ok for an adult?

sydthebeat

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

school kid tickets for a tenner and what price would you set

I know they are.

Two adults @€;50 with one child @€;10 + fees is approx €120 like I said.

There was feck all €30 adult tickets, and those were in the restricted view sections.

I would have set the price in the best manner to fill the stadium. So from that point of view I'd have priced all the 500 sections at €30.

Kids tenner tickets cannot be purchased without an adult ticket accompanying.

Squidgy Black

RDS horse show is on tomorrow as well as the semifinal in croke park too. Could be a dismal turnout. And I don't hold high hopes for the rugby being a spectacle either.

prinzeugen

sydthebeat wrote: »

Kids tenner tickets cannot be purchased without an adult ticket accompanying.

Standard procedure. Kids must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Circa 35,000 tickets sold as of last week according to the info I got so it won't be "half empty".

KevIRL

Is this on tv? What channel?

Shefwedfan

sydthebeat wrote: »

I know they are.

Two adults @€;50 with one child @€;10 + fees is approx €120 like I said.

There was feck all €30 adult tickets, and those were in the restricted view sections.

I would have set the price in the best manner to fill the stadium. So from that point of view I'd have priced all the 500 sections at €30.

Kids tenner tickets cannot be purchased without an adult ticket accompanying.

It’s Italy and that’s the problem...they should have reduced more but they lose run of themselves every few years.....they should have sold them off in 10 hours or something...stupid

icdg

KevIRL wrote: »

Is this on tv? What channel?

RTE2 and Channel 4. Afaik RTE are showing both home tests (not sure about Wales v Ireland though), Channel 4 showing the Italy game and both games involving Wales. The England game is on Sky, of course.

mfceiling

Yeah_Right wrote: »

Pretty sure that the Farkofandie Pub will be showing it

It's closed...

eagle eye

Why would anybody be interested in this?
What's the point of this match looking at it from an Irish point of view?

Squidgy Black

eagle eye wrote: »

Why would anybody be interested in this?
What's the point of this match looking at it from an Irish point of view?

To see how some of our 2nd/3rd/4th string players get on I suppose, and if anyone fighting for a spot puts their hand up for inclusion.

bilston

eagle eye wrote: »

Why would anybody be interested in this?
What's the point of this match looking at it from an Irish point of view?

To prepare for the WC.

To finalise the squad

It serves the same purpose as any pre season friendly.

They are a necessary evil.

Mind you whether we need 4 of them and whether we need to be playing so early is another matter.

eagle eye

eagle eye wrote: »

Why would anybody be interested in this?
What's the point of this match looking at it from an Irish point of view?

It's not the main course but should be an entertaining appetiser.

The squad isn't going to go from warm up mode to match fitness without playing a few games. I think Italy are the optimal team to face first up, we can physically outmatch them but they'll be well drilled and won't roll over.

It won't be much of a spectacle, but from a preparation point of view I think it's ideal.

Going from cold into a full intensity match against either Wales, England or France would increase the risk of injury imo. We obviously won't play Scotland as they are in our pool.

eagle eye

Squidgy Black wrote:

To see how some of our 2nd/3rd/4th string players get on I suppose, and if anyone fighting for a spot puts their hand up for inclusion.

What does a performance against Italy tell you? Not much imo.

bilston wrote:

Mind you whether we need 4 of them and whether we need to be playing so early is another matter.

Yes, playing this early seems crazy to me. Playing a poor Northern Hemisphere who we already know very well seems pointless.

Going to be a red here.

Shefwedfan

Deleted User wrote: »

Going to be a red here.

This would be really freaky if a red card happens in match later


You could claim you can see into the future

Digifriendly

Detect minimal interest in this game up north here. More talk about GAA semi final. Fact that we don't usually have rugby here in summer probably has something to do with it.

Digifriendly

Digifriendly wrote: »

Detect minimal interest in this game up north here. More talk about GAA semi final. Fact that we don't usually have rugby here in summer probably has something to do with it.

There's minimal interest anywhere. Stadium apparently will struggle to be half full.

Exclamation Marc

I'm looking forward to it.

A lot of last chance saloons and single chance saloons (Kleyn) for the WC spots so should be competitive and a lot of players going full pelt.

Rain pelting down now here at the stadium. Think we're in that odd alternate jersey today.

COYBIW?

dublinman1990

Peter Stringer & Fiona Coughlan are on C4. Lee McKenzie is not on duty today. She will be hosting W Series from Brand's Hatch tomorrow.

Have to wonder if the ticket prices were the smartest move, getting a big turnout behind the team for the first game would have been better optics.

That's the worst ad I've ever seen.

dublinman1990

Is today's match a sell out at the Aviva?

RugbyLover123

That’s a shocking turnout. Not surprised with ticket prices and Dublin game though.

Exclamation Marc

dublinman1990 wrote: »

Is today's match a sell out at the Aviva?

No. Looks 50% capacity from in here. Just.

Maybe 40%

Mantis Toboggan

Mickey D turning up for a challenge match!

Squidgy Black

dublinman1990 wrote: »

Is today's match a sell out at the Aviva?

Far from it. Plenty of tickets were up on Ticketmaster yesterday.

Hobosan

RTE Player wouldn't work with Ad Blockers disabled on Firefox. Had to uninstall them.

The bastards.

Hobosan

Hobosan wrote: »

RTE Player wouldn't work with Ad Blockers disabled on Firefox. Had to uninstall them.

The bastards.

Can you not pause them on specific sites ?

errlloyd

Deleted User wrote: »

Hobosan wrote: »

RTE Player wouldn't work with Ad Blockers disabled on Firefox. Had to uninstall them.

The bastards.

Can you not pause them on specific sites ?

I think that's what he means by disabled. Rte still detects and just won't run.

Larbre34

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Far from it. Plenty of tickets were up on Ticketmaster yesterday.

They priced it so wrong, a mate tried to get me to take 2 for face value of €135, sorry but no.

They should've copped the All Ireland semis clash and filled the place with young fans for a tenner and their parents for 20.

gally74

Larbre34 wrote: »

They priced it so wrong, a mate tried to get me to take 2 for face value of €135, sorry but no.

They should've copped the All Ireland semis clash and filled the place with young fans for a tenner and their parents for 20.

Correct 5 for the semis for kids under 16. Got the
Marketing / prices all wrong. More like 33%

Mantis Toboggan

Attendance seems unusually abysmal

mfceiling

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Attendance seems unusually abysmal

IRFU..."It seems we got our pricing structures wrong for this game. This is something we will address in the future".

Translation "won't be another 4 years til we've a dead rubber like this again so with a bit of luck the dopes will have forgotten this shambles and it'll be business as usual".

Clareman

Kearney should have done better there.

Cosmo Kramer

Dreadful from Dave Kearney.

dublinman1990

Oh. Dave Kearney was close there for a try.

Clareman

mfceiling wrote: »

IRFU..."It seems we got our pricing structures wrong for this game. This is something we will address in the future".

Translation "won't be another 4 years til we've a dead rubber like this again so with a bit of luck the dopes will have forgotten this shambles and it'll be business as usual".

Translation "hopefully we'll have a match against England lined up and then we'll make people buy tickets for both games"

Clareman

Good reffing