Delighted for Jamie Osborne. He's been in great form this season and deserves inclusion. It's a big blow that Henshaw is out however.
Earls and Stockdale being in is a big surprise to me. Neither have the form.
No Carbery is bizarre.
No Joey Carbery 😲
That's earlier than I had anticipated.
No Joey, presumably injured (which leaves the door open for Crowley to start vs Toulouse this weekend).
Coombes back in, well deserved. Earls maybe on the lucky side to still be there.
Hype filled Grand Slam followed by meek quarter final exit. It's the only way
Pretty sure Carbery was pictured in training as recently as yesterday.
Wow just noticed Carbery not there. I refuse to believe that's not due to injury until confirmed otherwise, would be properly mental otherwise.
Good squad overall. Do we really not have improvements over Earls and Stockdale at the moment in the back 3?
Delighted for Joe McCarthy and Jordan Larmour as well. The former is the biggest prospect in Leinster/Irish rugby right now alongside Osborne.
Just happy for Larmour that he's hit a good run of form so quickly after injury. He was injured for a lot of last season, came back, played well and was selected for the NZ tour only to get injured again in the first game.
Ross Byrne possibly jumped to second choice Irish out half
No Henshaw. Keith Earls will hopefully get to 100. Ross Byrne and Crowley in. Stockdale in. No Joey Carbery. Is he injured?
Possibly Munster have said that they cannot afford to lose three out halves, so IRFU make a choice.
IRFU chose Crowley??
No Timoney or Treadwell either.
Don't get Earls inclusion at all
Surely it doesn't work that way? I would have thought the IRFU can take as many players as they want. Call up from the AIL if they're stuck
Is Treadwell injured? He has been a selected pretty consistently by Farrell for a while now so I'm a bit surprised he isn't included.
Treadwell unlucky to miss out
Absolutely not
Explain carbery omission then?
It worked that way for the emerging Ireland tour
Joey has been out of form for a long time. I'm just surprised Farrell would drop him. Harsh call but probably the right one. Murray and Earls very lucky. Coombes making it is the right decision, good to see Farrell reward his form.
Carbery wasn't listed as injured in this weeks Munster squad update, so it has to be a selection choice.
Which was outside an international window. This isn't.
The more likely explanation is that 1) Carbery's injured or maybe 2) Farrell's favoured RB and Crowley. Which would be a big change to previous selection, but not unthinkable.
Occam's razor.
Nick Timoney isn't in the squad either. There's no cover for openside at all in the event VDF picks up an injury. It's not an issue selecting a replacement in that event, but I would have thought we'd have brought another 7.
Has to be injured.
Have heard numerous times that Earls is very good to have around camp, not sure I see him making the 23 but might make the bench. Delighted for Stockdale after the negative headlines during the week and good to see Coombes's form rewarded.
Anyone know when Loughman is due back - he's a loss.
There's 2 possible explanations:
That's it really.
It'd be POM; played at 7 before for us, and is entirely possible he'd be seledcted there ahead of Timoney anyways, even if he was in the squad.
I know endless ROG v Sexton debates are frowned upon on here. But the mods haven't said sh!t about endless Byrne v Crowley debates...
Presumably earls is included for experience because its not on form.
Stockdale hasnt shown his form of old in any game either, but its not as if he has played in a game Ulster have done well in that he could shine either.
Delighted for prendergast and Coombes, hopefully they see game time at some stage.
Im not really surprised about Carbery, he has played a good few games and hasnt been anything above ordinary also because byrne can do everything he does. The only problem is that he can cover FB as a bench option better than Byrne.
All the talk of Carbery aside, genuinely delighted for Ross Byrne. Imo he absolutely deserves this call-up, he's been excellent this season. He's come from a place where the Irish coaches just had no interest in him at all (picking H.Byrne who had barely played or done anything, Frawley who'd spent a season playing 12, Crowley who again looked promising but hadn't really done anything) ahead of him and he's forced his way back in.
If Carbery is actually fit, I just can't understand it. He's been in far, far worse form at various points in his career and still was always picked. He's been playing fine recently I thought.
This is a weird selection to me.
I’d honestly say Carbery has been playing better recently than ever. I would have understood dropping him several times over the years but now is hard to understand.
Earls and Stockdale are not in form at all. Like at all.
Kilcoyne was not playing better than loughman when both fit. Its my understanding that loughman is back soon.
The only two rewards for form are Byrne and Osborne, and honestly I have no idea what people are seeing that’s different about Byrne. He’s always been good but apparently not the type of good they liked. But now he is?
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