Ireland vs Japan, Sat 3rd July 1pm

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Match Programmme: http://newcentury.uberflip.com/i/1389689-ire-v-jpn-vodafone-summer-series-2021/0?

IRELAND:
Hugo Keenan (UCD/Leinster); Jordan Larmour (St. Mary's College/Leinster), Chris Farrell (Young Munster/Munster), Stuart McCloskey (Bangor/Ulster), Jacob Stockdale (Lurgan/Ulster); Joey Carbery (Clontarf/Munster), Jamison Gibson-Park (Leinster);
Dave Kilcoyne (UL Bohemians/Munster), Ronan Kelleher (Lansdowne/Leinster), Finlay Bealham (Buccaneers/Connacht), Ultan Dillane (Galway Corinthians/Connacht), James Ryan (UCD/Leinster) (capt), Peter O'Mahony (Cork Constitution/Munster), Josh van der Flier (UCD/Leinster), Caelan Doris (UCD/Leinster).

Replacements: Rob Herring (Ballynahinch/Ulster), Ed Byrne (UCD/Leinster), John Ryan (Cork Constitution/Munster), Ryan Baird (Dublin University/Leinster), Gavin Coombes (Young Munster/Munster), Craig Casey (/Shannon/Munster), Billy Burns (Ulster), Shane Daly (Cork Constitution/Munster).

JAPAN:
Kotaro Matsushima (Clermont Auvergne); Semisi Masirewa (Kintetsu Liners), Timothy Lafaele (Kobelco Steelers), Ryoto Nakamura (Suntory Sungoliath), Siosaia Fifita (Tenri University/Kintetsu Liners); Yu Tamura (Canon Eagles), Naoto Saito (Suntory Sungoliath);
Keita Inagaki (Panasonic Wild Knights), Atsushi Sakate (Panasonic Wild Knights), Jiwon Koo (Honda Heat), Wimpie van der Walt (NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes), James Moore (Munakata Sanix Blues), Michael Leitch (Toshiba Brave Lupus) (capt), Lappies Labuschagné (Kubota Spears), Kazuki Himeno (Toyota Verblitz/Highlanders).

Replacements: Kosuke Horikoshi (Suntory Sungoliath), Craig Millar (Panasonic Wild Knights), Asaeli Ai Valu (Panasonic Wild Knights), Jack Cornelsen (Panasonic Wild Knights), Tevita Tatafu (Suntory Sungoliath), Kaito Shigeno (Toyota Verblitz), Rikiya Matsuda (Panasonic Wild Knights), Shane Gates (NTT Communications Shining Arcs).

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TRC10

Himeno ruled out. Huge loss for Japan.

Dave_The_Sheep

Who do we have commentating on this one? Have to go find a stream, see which one to avoid.

I'm looking forward to McCloskey & Farrell together in the centre, if they click they will make yardage and hopefully give good ball to the wingers.

I see the ref won himself some front row tickets to the gun show.

eigrod

Stupid from Ryan

What a kick from Carbery. He didn't put much on it but it was perfect

Burkie1203

This has been an utter rubbish 6 minutes

Clegg

Well that's one of the most directionless pieces of play I've seen in a while.

Around 5 Irish players offside there right in front of ref...

Clegg

Clegg wrote: »

Well that's one of the most directionless pieces of play I've seen in a while.

what do you mean? they went backwards. the direction was pretty clear :P

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

What a kick from Carbery. He didn't put much on it but it was perfect

Followed by a lateral gary owen...

Clegg

Great carry from Doris off that lineout.

Think the TMO will call it back as VDF probably knocked that on.

eigrod

Great try

Patience and power.. Lovely try

salmocab

JGP has a had a good start

Director could undo this by showing the line-out again....

Burkie1203

POM being a d1ckhead shocker

Burkie1203

Way too easy

theVersatile

Oof

Beechwoodspark

Very soft try

Why do we seem to struggle so much with restarts internationaly I feel like it's been an issue semi consistently for years now

Dillane & Ryan were both pulled out of that maul far too easily

Strumms

Dickson was way too fast to penalize us prior to the Japan try

I’m actually happy here! For the team that was picked this is what I expected. Vs picking players with form, or a few new caps

Clegg

Perfect opportunity to attack in Japan's 22.

That's very sloppy from the front row.

KH25

Joey just fell off there.

Clegg

KH25 wrote: »

Joey just fell off there.

That's par for the course though. We know he's not a strong tackler and that teams will target his channel. You make a gamble that his creative game outweighs his poor tackling.

lawrencesummers

Yellow card coming shortly if we don’t cop on

banie01

The Japs are doing a great job of sucking in tackles, taking 2-3 Irish into contact and offloading into space.

Ireland are conceding far too many penalties and have no discipline in their line

starkid

Woeful performance. Farrell didn't have the balls to back form so its deserved. We're going nowhere with this coaching ticket

Clegg

We're in big trouble.

Can't get our hands on the ball at the breakdown and Japan's handling us too quick for us to set our defence.

clsmooth

What a try. Excellent by Japan.

Burkie1203

WTF is this garbage

KH25

Japan are running us ragged.

clsmooth

Clegg wrote: »

We're crap.

I blame Jack Carty.

ScissorPaperRock

Well this is going well

starkid

Getting outfought and outskilled by Japan. One or the other...but both? Time for AF to go

Sabre0001

Japan play a great brand of rugby

It won't stand

That's a forward pass

KH25

If this is pulled back we’ve got away with one.

Larbre34

Try going to be chalked off.

Nevertheless, we are indeed shyte.

Clegg

Clegg wrote: »

We're in big trouble.

Can't get our hands on the ball at the breakdown and Japan's handling us too quick for us to set our defence.

Japan are fantastic to be fair they are the most fun team to watch in world rugby

Clegg

Very jammy.

That move deserved a try.

pickarooney

Lovely to watch Japan, hard to feel bad about losing to a team playing this way.

FrancieBrady

Brilliantly kept alive. But Ireland need to be better organised.

lawrencesummers

That saved Doris a lot of blushing there.

It didn't need to go forward, we opened up for them.

Japan look the better team. Better coached so far anyway.

theVersatile

Two lovely shots from Stockdale and Keenan during that defensive set. Hopefully we'll start getting some parity at the breakdown and slowing down their ball. POMs been doing an okay job at it up to now.