Ireland Team Talk/Gossip/Rumour Thread

.ak

Probably a good indication that Court will be playing in Italy on Sunday.

Fishooks12

Tox56 wrote: »

Is Court not in the squad?

I thought he wasn't, open to correction though

.ak

McFadden will do fine on the wing against Fiji, but hopefully he gets moved to 12 inside Cave at some point, and Zebo will come onto the wing.

bamboozle

Fishooks12 wrote: »

Only two looseheads in the squad so no choice really. Although I agree on Ross

Is Court injured?

Fishooks12

JF100 wrote: »

PS: As an aside; I've heard (on good authority) that DK "has lost the changing room.." (after Test I in NZ...)

Sigh.....

shuffol

Cant have too many complaints with that side, Hurley and Muldoon are stop gaps due to injury. Not happy with Murray starting though, its almost like Kidneys afraid to start somebody else in case they force his hand by putting in a strong performance. I think its fair to say that at this stage the 9 jersey is not open to competition.

JustinDee

JF100 wrote: »

PS: As an aside; I've heard (on good authority) that DK "has lost the changing room.." (after Test I in NZ...)

Utter rubbish.

Teferi

Think its a bit mad to be starting Ross. Why not give Bent a good run with Ross to steady the ship if we need it?

Tox56

Given what happened to the Fiji scrum at Twickenham, if we started Bent but needed Ross to come on to "steady the ship" there's a good chance Bent would never be playing for Ireland again. You would hope he would be well able to handle it.

justsomebloke

meh, same sh1te different day

@14

good to see Marshall on the bench.

Good team.

Basically the team I would have picked except
Zebo for Hurley
O'Halloran @ 11
Gilroy @14
POM @ 7
Muldoon @ 6
Henderson in 2nd row for DOC.

So a couple of movements and a fresh face away from being spot on.

Not Bad Kidders!

Scioch

Backline of P Marshall, Sexton, Gilroy, L Marshall, Cave, McFadden and Zebo late in the game would be fun to watch I'd say.

death1234567

Teferi wrote: »

Think its a bit mad to be starting Ross. Why not give Bent a good run with Ross to steady the ship if we need it?

+1. Mike Ross seems to have to play every game. Maybe they are trying to help him lose weight by playing him in every international.

Cpt_Blackbeard

shuffol wrote: »

Cant have too many complaints with that side, Hurley and Muldoon are stop gaps due to injury. Not happy with Murray starting though, its almost like Kidneys afraid to start somebody else in case they force his hand by putting in a strong performance. I think its fair to say that at this stage the 9 jersey is not open to competition.

It might have more to so with an extremely inexperienced 10/11/12/13, but jumping to inane conclusions is probably the easiest thing to do.

Surprised there has been no mention of Kidney's sickening Ulster bias. Five Ulster players to be capped in the space of a week...

Cpt_Blackbeard

Cpt_Blackbeard wrote: »

Surprised there has been no mention of Kidney's sickening Ulster bias. Five Ulster players to be capped in the space of a week...

About ****ing Time

postitnote

Capped in an 'A' Game?

.ak

Cpt_Blackbeard wrote: »

It might have more to so with an extremely inexperienced 10/11/12/13, but jumping to inane conclusions is probably the easiest thing to do.

Surprised there has been no mention of Kidney's sickening Ulster bias. Five Ulster players to be capped in the space of a week...

This is an uncapped game.

CatFromHue

This is a strange game as originally it was billed as an A game but relatively quick after it was changed to an Ireland XV game.

Cpt_Blackbeard

.ak wrote: »

This is an uncapped game.

bilston

Cpt_Blackbeard wrote: »

It might have more to so with an extremely inexperienced 10/11/12/13, but jumping to inane conclusions is probably the easiest thing to do.

Surprised there has been no mention of Kidney's sickening Ulster bias. Five Ulster players to be capped in the space of a week...

Except Henderson's cap is the only one that counts!

Fireball07

I'd have played Paul Marshall...give him a go. But at least he's the type of player who should make an impact from the bench.

Excited about Jackson, Marshall, Cave, Henderson, Kilcoyne...all good selections.

People criticising the Hurley selection...I'd have picked Henshaw, but he wasn't in the squad so what can ya do.

I'd have probably gone with TOH ahead of McFadden.


And why is Ross playing?? We're going to end up ****ing him up by playing him when we don't need to.

Really can't wait to see what Jackson can do at 10 though.

Fishooks12

justsomebloke wrote: »

meh, same sh1te different day

In what sense, there's not much wrong with that selection

bilston

Scioch wrote: »

Backline of P Marshall, Sexton, Gilroy, L Marshall, Cave, McFadden and Zebo late in the game would be fun to watch I'd say.

As much as I'm looking forward to seeing PJ in an Ireland XV I must admit I would like to see Sexton and Marshall linking up in midfield, I think that could be quite a creative 10/12 pairing and it may well be our 10-12 axis by the time the 2013 AIs come around.

jm08

death1234567 wrote: »

+1. Mike Ross seems to have to play every game. Maybe they are trying to help him lose weight by playing him in every international.

Helps to have one experienced player in the front row. Thats why Hayes was used a lot in the early part of Healy's career with Ireland.

Munster do that the whole time - usually starting BJ with Kilcoyne & Wian with Archer.

Pudsy33

Why isn't this a full international? It's kinda insulting to Fiji that we're not awarding caps is it not?

shuffol

Cpt_Blackbeard wrote: »

It might have more to so with an extremely inexperienced 10/11/12/13, but jumping to inane conclusions is probably the easiest thing to do.

Surprised there has been no mention of Kidney's sickening Ulster bias. Five Ulster players to be capped in the space of a week...

Who mentioned a Munster bias, and I'm sure that Murrays dozen or so caps of experience(most of them poor in an Ireland shirt) will prove invaluable in a non cap international against a very poor Fiji side.

Fishooks12

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Why isn't this a full international? It's kinda insulting to Fiji that we're not awarding caps is it not?

Full internationals can only take place in the avivia

Tox56

jm08 wrote: »

Helps to have one experienced player in the front row. Thats why Hayes was used a lot in the early part of Healy's career with Ireland.

Munster do that the whole time - usually starting BJ with Kilcoyne & Wian with Archer.

And if Ross picks up a knock that keeps him out of the Argentina game we have the prospect of Archer on the bench??

Fiji were really really poor in the scrum against England, if Bent is in any way decent he should be able to handle them.

bamboozle

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Why isn't this a full international? It's kinda insulting to Fiji that we're not awarding caps is it not?

Aviva Stadium sponsorship deal requires all irish based international matches to be at the Aviva Stadium.

Given the alarming rate the national team is going backwards and the lack of interest in watching them they had to switch this stadium to TP.

Pudsy33

Fishooks12 wrote: »

Full internationals can only take place in the avivia

I wasn't aware of that, seems like a bizarre rule to me.

Edit: I see another poster has explained it's down to sponsorship.