Yeah surprised by that. It’s very unusual a guy does press and isn’t selected. Not sure I can remember it happening before tbh.
Oh I’m not at all worried about crappy takes. There’s no shortage of them here at the moment it would seem. I’ll just blend right in.
The Team for Saturday's Game
15. Hugo Keenan (UCD/Leinster)(39)
14. Calvin Nash (Young Munster/Munster)(5)
13. Robbie Henshaw (Buccaneers/Leinster)(71)
12. Bundee Aki (Galwegians/Connacht)(55)
11. James Lowe (Leinster)(30)
10. Jack Crowley (Cork Constitution/Munster)(13)
9. Jamison Gibson-Park (Leinster)(34)
1. Andrew Porter (UCD/Leinster)(63)
2. Dan Sheehan (Lansdowne/Leinster)(25)
3. Tadhg Furlong (Clontarf/Leinster)(75)
4. Joe McCarthy (Dublin University/Leinster)(9)
5. Tadhg Beirne (Lansdowne/Munster)(49)
6. Peter O’Mahony (Cork Constitution/Munster)(captain)(104)
7. Josh van der Flier (UCD/Leinster)(61)
8. Caelan Doris (St Mary’s College/Leinster)(40)
Replacements:
16. Rónan Kelleher (Lansdowne/Leinster)(30)
17. Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster)(128)
18. Finlay Bealham (Buccaneers/Connacht)(39)
19. Ryan Baird (Dublin University/Leinster)(19)
20. Jack Conan (Old Belvedere/Leinster)(45)
21. Conor Murray (Garryowen/Munster)(115)
22. Harry Byrne (UCD/Leinster)(3)
23. Garry Ringrose (UCD/Leinster)(57).
Welcome back. Crappy take on what I asked though.
Where have is said, implied, suggested that they have a Leinster bias.?
Wasn't Henderson doing media during the week? Seems an odd way to go about things though I assume he knew the story himself.
Plenty to get the job done.
5 3 bench
Just for the record, my responses are exactly at the level they should be to some of the absolute hilarity being posted here. I’ve given up trying to post in good faith with people who have no interest.
Nope don't think so
Not even sure Farrell has a valid passport for outside the Pale.
They don’t go to games outside of Dublin. All of them being born and raised in Dublin means they have a natural and unashamed Leinster bias. They don’t even try to hide it, the scoundrels.
There was a centre in the Munster schools cup final there who looked pretty handy, get him in camp ASAP.
Eh, nooooo. Jack Crowley has single handedly fixed the broken Irish coaches and praise be that he has!
What an unusual take on a question on whether our national rugby coaches attend a provincial rugby game.
I wouldn't say no idea.
I mean all provincial games are televised and I can't recall ever seeing Farrell, Catt (while he was around) or Easterby at one of the games that are played outside of Dublin.
Maybe they go in disguise or the TV directors only pick them out of the crowd during games in the Aviva.
It wasn't unusual to see Schmidt, Kidney or O'Sullivan at Thomond Park.
No, he's just rarely picked
Like, who would track this sort of thing? Seems a bit stalkery.
Tom Ahern and Jamie Osborne were both in the Irish squad as development players a few years back with less game time than Sam Prendergast had.
It's something they've done in the past and I'm sure they'll do in the future. I doubt they've changed their approach at all and it will be based on the needs of the team and on a case by case basis.
Is Ben Healy injured ?
You're insinuating it doesn't happen but in reality you haven't a clue if it does or doesn't, correct? Like we're talking no idea, yes?
Scotland make two changes for Six Nations finale against Ireland
The 26-year-old, who made his debut against Italy in a World Cup warm-up match last summer, takes the place of Cam Redpath as one of two changes to the starting XV from the team that kicked off last weekend’s damaging defeat to Italy in Rome.
The other alteration sees first-choice scrum-half Ben White return in place of George Horne after being rested for the trip to Rome.
Horne and Redpath both drop to the bench, where they are joined by veteran prop Rory Sutherland, who was a late addition to the Six Nations squad in the week leading up to the Italy game.
Scotland: B Kinghorn, K Steyn, H Jones, S McDowall, D van der Merwe, F Russell, B White, P Schoeman, G Turner, Z Fagerson, G Gilchrist, S Cummings, A Christie, R Darge, J Dempsey.
Replacements: E Ashman, R Sutherland, E Millar-Mills, S Skinner, M Fagerson, G Horne, C Redpath, K Rowe.
When was the last provincial game that an Irish coach (other than POC at a Munster game) attended that wasn't played in Dublin.
Sssssh, where are you going with facts like that.
They kind of have. Sam prendergast was in the training panel
Ireland have lost so infrequently that there should be no issues if Farrell selects the same side for the Scotland game. Picking as close to an unchanged team as possible with the view to redeeming themselves after a loss is a tried and tested motivator.
That might have been true of previous world cups but not the 2023, we had depth but Farrell chose not to use that depth to rotate players.
At last, someone with a balanced, sensible approach that's absolutely guaranteed to work.
We should throw the baby out with the bath water everyone. Get rid of the whole lot of them. And I hope the coaches have given personalised training plans for the next 3 years to the U20s squad so that they can be called up tomorrow. And then we’ll win the RWC because we’ll have reacted just right and regularly. Recipe for success.
Our depth wasn't what cost us at the RWC. You're replies are so predictable now that they just make me yawn.
In the short term it worked out but ultimately our lack of depth cost us dearly at the World Cup so I'd argue it turned out to be the wrong decision. Winning that 3rd test was good but I'd much rather we beat them in the quarter final.
It's exactly what Andy Farrell did after the 1st test loss to NZL in 2022 and they came back to win the series. It's backing the players to fix their errors.
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