Irish Rugby and Sevens

Kiwi_knock

Confirmed as qualifying for the World Cup after Portugal beat Spain. Great news.

Mushy

connachta wrote: »

blackcard wrote: »

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Great second half by ireland, come from behind to win 24 - 7

I thought Ireland weren't as impressive as yesterday, passing wasn't as crisp with too many passes at head height or not in front of the receiver. Clinical at the end  however.

I've said a morning game against the home team was tricky.
wasn't confident until the 3rd try.
Russia Ireland is the decider to win the Europe trophy,
too bad it's not in the final, as we would have won already (+55 points difference)

Ireland play Wales or Germany in semi final so it could well still happen

FrannoFan

Mushy wrote: »

Ireland play Wales or Germany in semi final so it could well still happen

What time Ireland on again?

connachta

Mushy wrote: »

connachta wrote: »

blackcard wrote: »

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Great second half by ireland, come from behind to win 24 - 7

I thought Ireland weren't as impressive as yesterday, passing wasn't as crisp with too many passes at head height or not in front of the receiver. Clinical at the end  however.

I've said a morning game against the home team was tricky.
wasn't confident until the 3rd try.
Russia Ireland is the decider to win the Europe trophy,
too bad it's not in the final, as we would have won already (+55 points difference)

Ireland play Wales or Germany in semi final so it could well still happen

Oh I thought the 1st teams to play the morning would face each other!
Great, we will win the Grand Prix series then (assuming we beat Wales which seems likely):D

Mushy

FrannoFan wrote: »

Mushy wrote: »

Ireland play Wales or Germany in semi final so it could well still happen

What time Ireland on again?

Just before 3.30. I thought it would be against winner of qf2 but not to be

connachta

Mushy wrote: »

FrannoFan wrote: »

Mushy wrote: »

Ireland play Wales or Germany in semi final so it could well still happen

What time Ireland on again?

Just before 3.30. I thought it would be against winner of qf2 but not to be

We both make that mistake. Wales is the weaker team of the 4 on the paper and on the past games, including this morning.

ScissorPaperRock

Wales spoiling the line outs

connachta

We lost. Russia 1st
Shame

ScissorPaperRock

Strange decision at the end to take the conversion instead of going direct to restart

Mushy

connachta wrote: »

We lost. Russia 1st
Shame

Unless Portugal beat Russia

Mushy

Ah God sake so close

connachta

9.B.2 Declining a conversion kick
(a)
The decision to decline the conversion must be relayed by the try scorer to the referee, by saying “No kick” after the award of the try and before the time reaches 00.00.
(b)
Once the decision is made to decline the conversion, the referee will award a restart kick. The restart kick will take place regardless of whether or not players were ready at 00.00.

There were 3 secs on the clock. Wonder if the ref induced us into error as we asked him...
Forward pass on the making of the try though

connachta

I've a doubt : Are we qualified for the Hong-Kong qualifier, still?
Then we lost nothing but the European trophy today?

connachta

Yes that's ok...
For the final no Russian anthem but another music.  Correction was made after the Welsh one..
Hope the first track wasn't the Georgian one, or it would be a diplomatic incident...

RichieRich89

connachta wrote: »

Yes that's ok...
For the final no Russian anthem but another music.  Correction was made after the Welsh one..
Hope the first track wasn't the Georgian one, or it would be a diplomatic incident...

Where are you from?

The Lost Sheep

Draw made for the Silicon Valley 7's, which is in San Jose on Saturday, November 4th and Sunday, November 5th.

Pool A: England, Ireland, Canada, Samoa
Pool B: Fiji, Australia, Japan, China
Pool C: USA, New Zealand, Tonga, Chile.

The Lost Sheep

Mens squad for Elche 7s, Spain on October 28th/29th has been named.
Jordan Conroy (Buccaneers/Connacht)
Shane Daly (Cork Constitution/Munster)
Ian Fitzpatrick (Lansdowne/Leinster)
Foster Horan (Lansdowne)
Hugo Keenan (UCD/Leinster)
Terry Kennedy (St. Mary's College/Leinster)
Alex McHenry (Cork Constitution/Munster)
Jimmy O'Brien (UCD/Leinster)
James O'Donovan (Old Wesley)
John O'Donnell (Lansdowne)
Mark Roche (Blackrock College)
Michael Stronge (Ballymena/Ulster)

IRELAND MEN'S SEVENS Fixtures -
Elche 7s:
Saturday, October 28:
Spain v Ireland, Estadio Martinez Valero, 11.20am local time/10.20am Irish time
Ireland v Wales, Estadio Martinez Valero, 1.40pm local time/12.40pm Irish time
Russia v Ireland, Estadio Martinez Valero, 3.40pm local time/2.40pm Irish time

Sunday, October 29:
Ireland v France, Estadio Martinez Valero, 11am local time/10am Irish time
Ireland v Viator Barbarians, Estadio Martinez Valero, 1.10pm local time/12.10pm Irish time
Final, Estadio Martinez Valero, 2.35pm local time/1.35pm Irish time

2017/2018 Tournament Schedule -
Oktoberfest 7s, Munich, Germany - September 29-30 (Seventh Place)
Elche 7s, Elche, Spain - October 28-29
Silicon Valley 7s, San Jose, USA - November 4-5
Dubai 7s, Dubai, UAE - December 1-2
Hong Kong 7s (World Series Repechage), Hong Kong - April 7-8
Amsterdam 7s, Amsterdam, Netherlands - June 9-10
Rugby World Cup Sevens, San Francisco, USA - July 20-22

CIARAN_BOYLE

How did we do in the Elche 7s does anyone know. There's more hype about the squad being named then about how they did

Here's the squad for silicon valley

IRELAND SEVENS SQUAD: W Connors (UCD/Leinster), J Conroy (Buccaneers/Connacht), S Daly (Cork Constitution /Munster), B Dardis(UCD), I Fitzpatrick (Lansdowne/Leinster), T Kennedy (St Mary’s College/Leinster), H McNulty (UCD), B Mollen (Dublin University), J O’Donnell (Lansdowne), Greg O’Shea (Shannon), M Roche (Blackrock College), T Schmidt (Terenure College).

Rigor Mortis

Lost to Wales 14 -10 in the final

Bazzo

https://twitter.com/IrishRugby/status/927311390184038400

Fair play to the lads.

CIARAN_BOYLE

Bazzo wrote: »

https://twitter.com/IrishRugby/status/927311390184038400

Fair play to the lads.

5 matches over the weekend, three wins, two against Canada and one against China and losses to England and Samoa.

Rigor Mortis

narrow loss to Samoa too. In fairness, they seem to be able to hold their own pretty well.

CIARAN_BOYLE

Rigor Mortis wrote: »

narrow loss to Samoa too. In fairness, they seem to be able to hold their own pretty well.

these are warm ups for qualifiers for the world series in Hong Kong next year aren't they. do we have a realistic chance of winning the qualifiers and becoming a core team for 2018/2019.

The Lost Sheep

Jamaica qualified for 7s world cup which is in San Fran next July
There will be 24 teams in the mens tournament and nearly all spots are decided with 3 more from inter continental championships

Teams qualified so far are: Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe, USA, Canada, Jamaica, Argentina, Hong Kong, Japan
England, France, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Russia, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Samoa,
Papua New Guinea


Dubai 7s next week. Ladies team are in world series which is first leg of new season while we also have an irish ladies development team competing in the womens invitational open and are in pool B with WR Ravens, who are American i think, Belgian national side, and a side from Almaty

Mens squad are in the invitational tournament and will play Friday and Saturday
Sean Cribbon (Suttonians RFC)
Billy Dardis (UCD RFC)
Ian Fitzpatrick (Lansdowne FC/Leinster)
High Keenan (UCD RFC/Leinster)
Terry Kennedy (St. Mary's College RFC/Leinster)
Alex McHenry (Cork Constitution FC/Munster)
Harry McNulty (UCD RFC)
Bryan Mollen (Dublin University FC)
Jimmy O'Brien (UCD RFC/Leinster)
John O'Donnell (Lansdowne FC)
Greg O'Shea (Shannon RFC)
Mark Roche (Blackrock College RFC)

Fixtures - Pool C
Friday 1st December 2017
Ireland v Germany - 3:40pm (local time)/11:40am (Irish time)
Ireland v Old Georgians RFC - 7:06pm (local time)/3:06pm (Irish time)
Ireland v France Development - 9:00pm (local time)/5.00pm Sun (Irish time)

Womens squad for world series
Ashleigh Baxter (Cooke/Ulster)
Claire Boles (Railway Union/Ulster)
Aoife Doyle (Shannon/Railway Union/Munster)
Katie Fitzhenry (Blackrock/Leinster)
Stacey Flood (Railway Union/Leinster)
Louise Galvin (UL Bohemians/Munster)
Eve Higgins (Railway Union/Leinster) *
Lucy Mulhall (Rathdrum) (capt)
Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe (Railway Union/Munster)
Derbhile Nic a Bhaird (UL Bohemians/Munster) *
Audrey O'Flynn (Ireland Sevens)
Hannah Tyrrell (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
* Denotes uncapped player at this level

IRELAND WOMEN'S SEVENS FIXTURES - DUBAI 7s:
Thursday, November 30 -
Pool C:
Fiji v Ireland, 12pm local time/8am Irish time
Canada v Ireland, 3.18pm local time/11.18am Irish time
Ireland v Spain, 5.53pm local time/1.53pm Irish time
Friday, December 1 -
Play-Offs

Bridge93

Women live in the trophy final on sky sports action right now

The Lost Sheep

Ireland won trophy final
http://www.irishrugby.ie/news/41001.php#.WiHVktKDPIU
Pool C:
Fiji 12 Ireland 20
Canada 31 Ireland 0
Ireland 7 Spain 17
Friday, December 1 -
Challenge Trophy Semi-Final: Ireland 38 Japan 5
Challenge Trophy Final: Ireland 24 South Africa 7

CIARAN_BOYLE

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

Ireland won trophy final
http://www.irishrugby.ie/news/41001.php#.WiHVktKDPIU
Pool C:
Fiji 12 Ireland 20
Canada 31 Ireland 0
Ireland 7 Spain 17
Friday, December 1 -
Challenge Trophy Semi-Final: Ireland 38 Japan 5
Challenge Trophy Final: Ireland 24 South Africa 7

Any word on the women's development team that was in Dubai as well?

The Lost Sheep

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

Any word on the women's development team that was in Dubai as well?

Got to final. Lost to Randwick 15-10

Mens team results
Beat Germany 26-12
Old Georgians 31-10 and lost to France Development 21-10

Play South African Development side in quarters tomorrow

The Lost Sheep

Ireland Men's 7s beat France Development 40-7 to finish in 5th Place at the Dubai 7's, beat The Royals (England Development) 24-5 in 5-8th semi final after losing to South Africa Development 22-12

nerd69

So how far are the men from World Series at this point? what would they have to do to get there?