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The Academies

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List of every player currently in one of the four Irish academies.

Loosehead Ed Byrne
Loosehead Jack O'Connell
Loosehead Kyle McCall
Loosehead Finlay Bealham
Loosehead James Cronin
Loosehead/Hooker James Treacy
Hooker Niall Scannell
Hooker Brian Byrne
Hooker David Doyle
Hooker Jonny Murphy
Hooker Kevin O'Byrne
Hooker Duncan Casey
Hooker James Rael
Tighthead Martin Moore
Tighthead Tadhg Furlong
Tighthead Conor Carey
Tighthead Jake Caulfield
Tighthead Jamie Dever
Tighthead Peter Reilly
Lock Cathal O'Flaherty
Lock Tadhg Beirne
Lock Gavin Thornbury
Lock Alan O'Connor
Lock James Simpson
Lock Daniel Qualter
Lock Ultan Dilane
Lock Philip Donnellan
Lock Brian Hayes
Flanker/Lock Ben Marshall
Flanker Dan Leavy
Flanker Conor Gilsenan
Flanker Josh Van Der Flier
Flanker Jordi Murphy
Flanker Conor Joyce
Flanker Neil Faloon
Flanker Aaron Conneely
Flanker David Heffernan
Flanker Jonathan Gardiner
Flanker Shane Buckley
Flanker Ryan Murphy
Eight Jack Conan
Eight Sean O'Connell
Eight Jack O'Donoghue
Scrum Half Luke McGrath
Scrum Half Marcus Walsh
Scrum Half Kieran Marmion(may have signed a non academy contract recently)
Scrum Half Brian Haugh
Outhalf Cathal Marsh
Outhalf Noel Reid
Outhalf Stuart Olding
Outhalf Jack Carty
Outhalf Tadgh Leader
Outhalf Johnny Holland
Centre Cian Bohane
Centre Jordan Coughlan
Centre Colm O'Shea
Centre Chris Farrell
Centre Corey Hircock
Centre Harry McNulty
Centre/Fullback Robbie Henshaw(may have signed a non academy contract recently)
Wing Andrew Boyle
Wing Sam Coughlan Murray
Wing Conor Finn
Wing Steve Macauley
Wing Ronan O'Mahony
Wing/Fullback Darren Hudson
Wing/Fullback Darren Moroney
Fullback Mikey Sherlock*(not sure about his status)
Fullback Rory Scholes
Fullback Peter Nelson
Fullback Ricky Andrew
Fullback Shane Layden
Fullback Darragh Leader
Fullback Darren Sweetnam

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Tox56

ormond lad wrote: »

Good to see 3 youths players join the Leinster academy. With the work being put into the youths system that number will only keep on going up
Usually is end of May/June before Munster announce their academy. Will be interesting to see how many Munster add considering there is only 3 in final year this season

Leinster U18 clubs team looked good this year too, maybe more to come

opinionatedfan

5 youth products in total in the academy.

10 players from Dublin(Boyle(21), Coghlan(20), Crosbie(20), Doyle(22), Leavy(18), Marsh(20), McGrath(19), Molony(18), O'Shea(22), Thornbury(19))
5 players from Kildare(Beirne(20), Byrne(18), Dardis(17-18), SCM(21), Tracy(22))
3 players from Carlow(Byrne(19), Byrne(19), Daly(19))
2 players from Wicklow(Conan(20), JVDF(19))
1 player from Wexford(Furlong(20))
1 player from Offaly(Dooley(18))
1 player from Westmeath(Gilsenan(20))

shuffol

Would Moloneys absence be due to there already been a number of backrows, specifically opensides already in the academy, you'd imagine other provinces would be looking at him.

opinionatedfan

shuffol wrote: »

Would Moloneys absence be due to there already been a number of backrows, specifically opensides already in the academy, you'd imagine other provinces would be looking at him.

yeah, seems like the most obvious thing to me. Very talented kid but we have tons of backrows in the academy and he is still pretty young.

Maybe a year in the sub-academy and then in. Depends where he ends up going to college.

CGD

shuffol wrote: »

Would Moloneys absence be due to there already been a number of backrows, specifically opensides already in the academy, you'd imagine other provinces would be looking at him.

Yeah plenty of very good proven backrows in Leinster at the moment. If he develops well next season he is likely to get in next year when contract situation with other backrows will be more clear

schools rugby

opinionatedfan wrote: »

no need to apologize, the confusion caused by Molony/Moloney is frequent.

good news on SCM, he missed a lot of time with that illness.

3 schools products and 3 youths products.

Peter Dooley(LH Prop/Youth-Offaly)
Ross Molony(Lock/St.Michaels-Dublin)
Steve Crosbie(Outhalf/St.Gerrards-Dublin)
Tom Daly(Centre/Youth-Carlow)
Adam Byrne(Wing/Youth-Kildare)
Billy Dardis(Fullback/Terenure-Kildare)

Dardis and Molony are the only two schools ?

opinionatedfan

schools rugby wrote: »

Dardis and Molony are the only two schools ?

Crosbie is a schools product.

schools rugby

opinionatedfan wrote: »

Crosbie is a schools product.

When did he leave school?

FellasFellas

schools rugby wrote: »

When did he leave school?

2011.

opinionatedfan

schools rugby wrote: »

When did he leave school?

2011.

Creeby

schools rugby wrote: »

When did he leave school?

2011.

Hagz

schools rugby wrote: »

When did he leave school?

2011.

Tox56

schools rugby wrote: »

When did he leave school?

1982

.ak

Tox56 wrote: »

1982

Nuh-uh, as the posters above said it's clearly 2012.

ormond lad

Dolphin RFC tweeted a few hours ago that Darren O Shea and John Madigan have been added to Munster academy

opinionatedfan

ormond lad wrote: »

Dolphin RFC tweeted a few hours ago that Darren O Shea and John Madigan have been added to Munster academy

both are second rows right?

Madigan being under-20 next year, not sure about O'Shea.

ormond lad

opinionatedfan wrote: »

both are second rows right?

Madigan being under-20 next year, not sure about O'Shea.

Yes both are second rows. O Shea is same age group as JJ Hanrahan. ie 92

opinionatedfan

ormond lad wrote: »

Yes both are second rows. O Shea is same age group as JJ Hanrahan. ie 92

Pretty old to be going into the academy, what's his story?

Obviously second rows develop later so it's not necessarily a bad thing.

shuffol

Munster like their 2nd rows, that'll be 4 in the academy next year. There's 3 in there atm but think Hayes is in his final year.

ormond lad

opinionatedfan wrote: »

Pretty old to be going into the academy, what's his story?

Obviously second rows develop later so it's not necessarily a bad thing.

Not that old. Philly Donnellan from Nenagh was 23 at end of last season when he joined the academy.
No idea what Darren o Shea's story is. He played underage for various munster sides. just kept on playing AIL after school. He is from Crosshaven origianlly and played youths with them before going into dolphin when in college i imagine

opinionatedfan

thanks, would be pretty surprising if Sean McCarthy didn't make the academy aswell right?

Also what height would you put either O'Shea or Madigan at?

backgreen

opinionatedfan wrote: »

thanks, would be pretty surprising if Sean McCarthy didn't make the academy aswell right?

Also what height would you put either O'Shea or Madigan at?[/QUOTE
McCarthy is about 6' 4'' have't seen madigan for a few years

opinionatedfan

backgreen wrote: »

opinionatedfan wrote: »

thanks, would be pretty surprising if Sean McCarthy didn't make the academy aswell right?

Also what height would you put either O'Shea or Madigan at?

McCarthy is about 6' 4'' have't seen madigan for a few years

McCarthy is listed at 6'6 here.

http://www.irishrugby.ie/squads/ireland_u20.php?player=110511&includeref=dynamic

lurtz

Madigan is very tall these days I hear,6'6 or so

Stanza2

Madigan is about 6'7" a great talent, was an Irish youth player last year. He has a great future in the game.

backgreen

opinionatedfan wrote: »

McCarthy is listed at 6'6 here.

http://www.irishrugby.ie/squads/ireland_u20.php?player=110511&includeref=dynamic

maybe on his tip/toes

backgreen

niall horan also in academy

opinionatedfan

backgreen wrote: »

niall horan also in academy

new outside centre?

BallHandling Hooker

FellasFellas wrote: »

Looks like we'll be needing a scrumhalf fairly soon.

There doesn't "need" to be a -player in each position.

I assume someone like Charlie Rock or the Ireland 18s captain Nick McCarthy will get a academy place in the next year or two anyway

CIARAN_BOYLE

BallHandling Hooker wrote: »

There doesn't "need" to be a -player in each position.

I assume someone like Charlie Rock or the Ireland 18s captain Nick McCarthy will get a academy place in the next year or two anyway

If we don't make a signing at SH in a couple of years we will just have Cooney and McGrath which is fine since I have hope for the both of them to come through. That said we should be looking at someone to enter the academy (either for 2013/2014 or 2014/2015) so that someone with a bit of development will be coming through as 3rd choice when Reddan/Boss retire.