Irish Under-20's 2023

Dubinusa

Is Oji even in the squad?

snotboogie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120332014#Comment_120332014

No idea what the squad is now but he wasn’t named in the initial 6 nations squad but then neither were Osbourne or Moloney.

Ciaran

Game already over after 8 minutes.

Prendergast running the show here

pickarooney

Is there any free live stream?

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120342251#Comment_120342251

RTÉ player have it for free if you're on the go.

Scotland are a shambles. Ireland can only destroy whats in front of them, but it'd be nice to get a decent game out of them ahead of the Grand Slam game versus England.

Clegg

Prendergast plays very casual, but in the most positive sense. Seems utterly unbothered in his execution and decision making.

Waesfjord

Rte player

Clegg

Jaysus.

This is an utter mismatch between the two sides, not only in physicality but also in technique. Ireland are dominant.

Clegg

Prendergast is playing a different game to everyone else

Lost Ormond

Missed first half hour. This could be a huge score built up tonight

Clegg

Another dynamic hooker that hangs on the wing and barrels through tackles?

This is getting a bit ridiculous now.

Tigerandahalf

Bit of a non game this. Hard to know how good Ireland are when Scotland are so poor.

Clegg

Really hope the Scotland 9 is ok. Been completely immobilized by the physios and is receiving oxygen.

Scotland's breakdown is appalling. They have no idea what they are doing.

Hard to enjoy this slightly. Never really enjoy seeing young non pros shipping these sorts of losses. I really can't remember ever seeing a half time score this high.

theVersatile

Maybe we could've/should've rotated a *little* bit more for this game ...

Cosmo Kramer

Decided to go along to this as a warm up for Sunday and to have a look at Sam Prendergast - fair to say he's living up to his reputation here. The first thing that jumped out during the anthems though was the sheer size difference between the two teams.

Really hope the Scotland 9 is OK. It's literally men against boys here, and in the circumstances an injury like that was always a realistic possibility unfortunately.

Thrashssacre

Wonder if they could move the final game to thomond these lads deserve a big crowd for their final match, they've been fantastic.

Poorside

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120342397#Comment_120342397

Should just unload the bench now

stephen_n

Scotland are poor but it’s great watching young lads play so freely and make consistent good decisions. Prendergast is pretty good at rugby.

Lost Ormond

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120342441#Comment_120342441

No.. Everything based around playing on 3g and would it really get that much more than 10k/12k in thomond? A completely full musgrave far better than maybe 50% at best thomond

All_in_Flynn

This is the 3rd time I've watched Predergast now and you can't help but be excited by his talent.

Is it just me or does he have a bit of a funny/odd gait when running? It's as if his legs haven't caught up to his body size yet. Some cannon of a boot on him all the same.

Inquitus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120342476#Comment_120342476

Musgrave is already sold out, they could perhaps get Thomond fairly full?

CIARAN_BOYLE

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120342476#Comment_120342476

Especially when Musgrave is already sold out. If you moved the venue to Thomond you would need to refund all the tickets in Musgrave and hope that they would buy tickets for thomond.

A big portion of the support is that Cork has come behind the 20s over a number of years. The Cork support won't all travel to Limerick. The Limerick support won't instantly buy into the U20s imo.

I wonder if Scotland will win the JRWT this summer. If they are still in the second tier U20 RWC they will stay the 6 nations whipping boys.

Lost Ormond

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120342518#Comment_120342518

8000 who have tickets who would have to be refunded and not all would necessarily go to Limerick for this and theres plenty of munster pro14 games that arent fairly full in thomond. so would a 20s game even if going for a grand slam get more? extremely unlikely.

Ciaran

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120342476#Comment_120342476

It'd be a kick in the teeth for Cork fans too who've been great for the team the last few years.

Podge_irl

Only 7-7 in 20 minutes in the second half. Not good enough and a bit worrying.

(am I doing this right?)

stephen_n

Gunne reminds me a lot of McGrath, good rugby player. Pass is a bit dodgy though.

Inquitus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120342537#Comment_120342537

Its 7-5 Scotland, sound the alarm!