Ireland u20 6 Nations and Junior World Cup 2014

The Lost Sheep · 06-09-2013 10:03pm

A small number of photo's from the Leinster Connacht game [URL="[url]http://inpho.ie/assignment/Under-20-Interprovincial-Leinster-U20-vs-Connacht-U20[/url]"][/url]http://inpho.ie/assignment/Under-20-Interprovincial-Leinster-U20-vs-Connacht-U20 and some photos from the Munster Ulster game http://inpho.ie/assignment/Under-20-Interprovincial-Ulster-U20-vs-Munster-U20

CGD · 06-09-2013 10:47pm

Looking at the photos it seems Gardiner and Heffernan For Leinster and O'Brien and O'Rourke are getting to know each other and giving it plenty! Great picture!

.ak · 06-09-2013 10:54pm

Stanza2 wrote: »

Great performance from Leinster, they just looked to have some serious backs with ball in hand and I hate saying this after a game like that...... The ref was so bad ! Can ruin a good game. Still some positives for Connacht. Some great players on both teams. Pity about the 8 yellows and 2 reds (lost count) over as a contest when Sean O'Brien was sent off

How did the centre partnership work out?

its_phil · 06-09-2013 11:10pm

There were no red cards and only two yellows.

The Lost Sheep · 07-09-2013 12:20pm

Match Report from Leinster game
http://www.leinsterrugby.ie/domestic/10307

The Lost Sheep · 12-09-2013 3:54pm

Teams for tomorrows games
Munster U20
15 David Johnston (UL Bohs)
14 Alex Wootton (Exile)
13 Ned Hodson (UCC)
12 Dan Goggin (Young Munster)
11 Adrian Enright (UL Bohs)
10 Gearoid Lyons (Shannon)
9 Ryan Foley (Cork Con)
1 Aidan Slattery (Cork Con)
2 Ben Burns (UCC)
3 Rory Burke (Cork Con)
4 John Madigan (Dolphin)
5 Darragh Moloney (Cork Con)
6 Lee Nicholas (Shannon)
7 Aidan Butler (Shannon)
8 Jack O’Donoghue (Captain) (UL Bohs)

Replacements
16 Max Abbot (Cork Con)
17 Mike Lynch (St. Senans/UL Bohs)
18 James Maxwell (Cashel)
19 Patrick Kearns (Shannon)
20 Sonny Dwyer (Cork Con)
21 Aaron Atkinson (UCC)
22 Sam Sterling (UL Bohs)
23 Greg O’Shea (Shannon)

Leinster u20
15 Billy Dardis (UCD)
14 Cian Kelleher (Lansdowne)
13 Adam Byrne (UCD)
12 Garry Ringrose (Blackrock College)
11 Ian Fitzpatrick (Lansdowne)
10 Ross Byrne (UCD)
9 Nick McCarthy (St. Michael’s College

1 Ivan Soroka (Belvedere College)
2 Dylan Donnellan (UCD)
3 Oisín Heffernan (Lansdowne RFC)
4 Ross Molony (UCD)
5 Stephen Gardiner (Lansdowne)
6 Josh Murphy (UCD)
7 Michael Triggs (Lansdowne)
8 Peader Timmins (UCD)

Replacements
16 Shane Delahunt (Lansdowne)
17 Denis Coulson (Lansdowne)
18 Craig Trenier (Terenure College)
19 Stephen Keelan (Clongowes Wood College)
20 Sean Coughlan (Blackrock College)
21 Charlie Rock (Old Belvedere)
22 Conor McKeon (Lansdowne)
23 Stephen O’Neill (Terenure College)

Leinster5 · 12-09-2013 9:49pm

Anyone else intrigued to see how many players that weren't involved in the Interpro's make it into the Ireland 20 squad. I'm already noticing several players that aren't involved due to being members of a certain teams academy, injured and not selected. I remember last year, there were several players that came from nowhere and ended up making a huge impact.

The Lost Sheep · 13-09-2013 4:48pm

Connacht made plenty of changes for tonights game v Ulster
SOB2.0 now at 8 with Boyle starting in row in his place.
Jack Dineen now on the bench as is Paul Hackett who replaces Eddie Earle.
Ben Carty moves from the bench to full back in place of Eoghan O'Reilly, who moves to the left wing in place of Mark O'Keefe who replaces Carty on the bench.

Jacob Walshe, Scott Flanagan, Saba Meunargia
Josh O’Rourke, Shane Boyle
Sam McCormack, Rory Moloney, Sean O’Brien(C)
Caolin Blade, Sean O’Hagan
Eoghan O’Reilly, Andrew McAleer, Rory Parata, Matt Mellotte
Ben Carty

Replacements:
Conor Duffy, Dan McCardle, Andrew Barr, Jack Dineen, Paul Hackett, Conor Kerins, Mark O’Keefe, Charlie Ryan

Anyone going to either game? I will be at the Munster Leinster game in Thomond where I can only see an away win

Hagz · 13-09-2013 4:54pm

Interested in seeing how SOBv2 does at 8. I think it's probably where he'll end up playing given his height.

The Lost Sheep · 13-09-2013 4:57pm

Hagz wrote: »

Interested in seeing how SOBv2 does at 8. I think it's probably where he'll end up playing given his height.

yeah. has played bits and pieces in 2nd row but not tall enough to be in the row and I don't see him as a blindside. 8 is where he'll end up imo

How do you think games will go tonight?

Hagz · 13-09-2013 5:13pm

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

yeah. has played bits and pieces in 2nd row but not tall enough to be in the row and I don't see him as a blindside. 8 is where he'll end up imo

How do you think games will go tonight?

Haven't the foggiest. Ulster changed their XV quite a lot and so there might not be a lot of continuity. And I'm hoping Connacht will be raring to make amends of their big loss, so I'm backing them to win.

A part of me also thinks Leinster will put up a convincing score tonight, but I prefer the XV Munster have out this week to last week so I dunno.

The Lost Sheep · 13-09-2013 5:31pm

Connacht Ulster game actually kicked off at 3pm and resulted in a Connacht win on score of 27-25.

jamiedav2011 · 13-09-2013 8:43pm

19-6 to Leinster at the moment in Fortress Thomond.

jamiedav2011 · 13-09-2013 9:03pm

19-18 now! Munster score two tries.
Conv hits post.

jamiedav2011 · 13-09-2013 9:13pm

Leinster win 19-18!

The Lost Sheep · 13-09-2013 10:28pm

Was at the game in Thomond tonight. Leinster players had much better skills, their awareness of space was very good.
When Leinster's backs got the ball you could see the increase In pace and that the players had seen where the space was to attack before the ball arrived and they attacked at pace making large gains
Leinster lineout is a well oiled machine with both 2nd rows very good in the air with Ross Molony a fantastic prospect.
Munster were well out of the game after first half with Madigan and Jack O D pulling the men in red back into the game as 2nd half went on.
Leinster superiority is not shown in final scoreline. Scoreline shows the hard work done by some Munster forwards to drag their side into a game that was lost after the early exchanges
On players who were very good.
For Leinster: Kelleher, Molony, R Byrne, Ringrose
Munster: Madigan, JOD, Goggin

Hagz · 13-09-2013 10:39pm

Byrne must be a good prospect if he's keeping McKeon out of the XV. I've only seen him play in the SCT, where his passing was very flat and accurate. Potentially a Leinster dominated back-line for the Ire u20s.

Stanza2 · 14-09-2013 12:54am

Hagz wrote: »

Byrne must be a good prospect if he's keeping McKeon out of the XV. I've only seen him play in the SCT, where his passing was very flat and accurate. Potentially a Leinster dominated back-line for the Ire u20s.

Although Leinster won by a comfortable scoreline last week, Byrne was average at best, easy to look good when a team is very dominant like Leinster were last week against Connacht. Byrne must have missed at least four good kicking chances in that game and handed the kicking duties to Ringrose I believe as it got so bad, who I thought kicked much better. O'Hagan got his only two kicks last week for Connacht's only scores of the game, this week he kicked five out of six from the tee as well as two good tries for a 22 point haul out of 27 scored in their win over Ulster. I would think those figures would give him a good chance of getting in the Leinster dominated back line.

Tox56 · 14-09-2013 9:42am

Hagz wrote: »

Byrne must be a good prospect if he's keeping McKeon out of the XV. I've only seen him play in the SCT, where his passing was very flat and accurate. Potentially a Leinster dominated back-line for the Ire u20s.

Thought he looked an excellent prospect in the SCT, a Sexton 2.0 in his style of play. His actual pass is good but his decision making and appreciation of space was outstanding.

Hagz · 14-09-2013 11:01am

Stanza2 wrote: »

Although Leinster won by a comfortable scoreline last week, Byrne was average at best, easy to look good when a team is very dominant like Leinster were last week against Connacht. Byrne must have missed at least four good kicking chances in that game and handed the kicking duties to Ringrose I believe as it got so bad, who I thought kicked much better. O'Hagan got his only two kicks last week for Connacht's only scores of the game, this week he kicked five out of six from the tee as well as two good tries for a 22 point haul out of 27 scored in their win over Ulster. I would think those figures would give him a good chance of getting in the Leinster dominated back line.

Oh, I was talking more about his back-play. I'm not really concerned with how a young player kicks at goal. I'd rather us play an out-half based on his attacking merits. In saying that, I know O'Hagan is a big prospect, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if he grabbed the 10 shirt.

Quint2010 · 14-09-2013 12:16pm

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

Was at the game in Thomond tonight. Leinster players had much better skills, their awareness of space was very good.
When Leinster's backs got the ball you could see the increase In pace and that the players had seen where the space was to attack before the ball arrived and they attacked at pace making large gains
Leinster lineout is a well oiled machine with both 2nd rows very good in the air with Ross Molony a fantastic prospect.
Munster were well out of the game after first half with Madigan and Jack O D pulling the men in red back into the game as 2nd half went on.
Leinster superiority is not shown in final scoreline. Scoreline shows the hard work done by some Munster forwards to drag their side into a game that was lost after the early exchanges
On players who were very good.
For Leinster: Kelleher, Molony, R Byrne, Ringrose
Munster: Madigan, JOD, Goggin

How did Dardis play?

wise7 · 14-09-2013 12:46pm

Hagz wrote: »

Oh, I was talking more about his back-play. I'm not really concerned with how a young player kicks at goal. I'd rather us play an out-half based on his attacking merits. In saying that, I know O'Hagan is a big prospect, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if he grabbed the 10 shirt.

if there is one defining aspect of Ross Byrne's play as a 10 it is that he is an out and out attacking playmaker. he seeks to put runners, backs and forwards into space. Difficult to defend against because he always seems to have numerous options and you are never sure who he is going to feed his precision passes to. A very promising tactical brain at 18 years of age.

The Lost Sheep · 14-09-2013 12:47pm

Quint2010 wrote: »

How did Dardis play?

didn't stand out in overall game but showed glimpses of real class at different stages. Footwork was lovely and creation of space and how to attack very good.

Quint2010 · 14-09-2013 1:07pm

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

didn't stand out in overall game but showed glimpses of real class at different stages. Footwork was lovely and creation of space and how to attack very good.

By all accounts Kelleher out-shone him and was MOTM.

jamiedav2011 · 14-09-2013 2:12pm

Quint2010 wrote: »

By all accounts Kelleher out-shone him and was MOTM.

Is Kelleher young or something? From the little I saw of the Schools Cup last year he was stand out.
Academy next year?

Where's he in college?

Quint2010 · 14-09-2013 2:40pm

jamiedav2011 wrote: »

Is Kelleher young or something? From the little I saw of the Schools Cup last year he was stand out.
Academy next year?

Where's he in college?

No was an U19 with Leinster last year and played full back with 'Michaels. Class player but a little too selfish at times. I think he is with Lansdowne now. Looks like it was him or Dardis for the academy but if he keeps that form up he will definitely get in next year.

Tox56 · 14-09-2013 2:47pm

jamiedav2011 wrote: »

Is Kelleher young or something? From the little I saw of the Schools Cup last year he was stand out.
Academy next year?

Where's he in college?

Great athlete with size speed + power but didn't seem to have the rugby brain to go with it, and that's putting it lightly. He was definitely stand out in the SCT but I assumed his athleticism would only get him so far at pro level. Havent changed that opinion but if he progresses like this I'll happily be proven wrong.

Hagz · 14-09-2013 3:48pm

Leinster lost Timmons in the second minute (replaced by Sean Coughlan) and Adam Byrne in the 25th minute (replaced by Stephen O'Neill). Hopefully they're long term injuries.

TheKeenMachine · 14-09-2013 3:53pm

Hagz wrote: »

Leinster lost Timmons in the second minute (replaced by Sean Coughlan) and Adam Byrne in the 25th minute (replaced by Stephen O'Neill). Hopefully they're long term injuries.

Why?

Hagz · 14-09-2013 3:55pm

TheKeenMachine wrote: »

Why?

Haha, oops. I meant to say not. I'm not a sadist :pac:

Byrne's injury isn't serious anyway so that's good.

The Lost Sheep · 14-09-2013 3:55pm

Hagz wrote: »

Leinster lost Timmons in the second minute (replaced by Sean Coughlan) and Adam Byrne in the 25th minute (replaced by Stephen O'Neill). Hopefully they're long term injuries.

I wasn't in in time to see what happened to Timmins but Byrne injury didn't look too bad.

Presume you mean hopefully they're not long term injuries..

hype101 · 14-09-2013 4:12pm

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

yeah. has played bits and pieces in 2nd row but not tall enough to be in the row and I don't see him as a blindside. 8 is where he'll end up imo

How do you think games will go tonight?

To that end, does he have the dynamism to play 8.. That's not a rhetorical question

Stanza2 · 14-09-2013 5:54pm

Hagz wrote: »

Oh, I was talking more about his back-play. I'm not really concerned with how a young player kicks at goal. I'd rather us play an out-half based on his attacking merits. In saying that, I know O'Hagan is a big prospect, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if he grabbed the 10 shirt.

Byrne is a really good player and playmaker, kicking will be a thought when it comes to tournament play tho. In fairness to Byrne, he seems to have had a better day with the boot yesterday, he is a very bright prospect as we know, he could be this years fly half. O'Hagan did have a seriously good game yesterday, his first try of the game was just top drawer and he seemed to be a real leader of the team when they went behind. Connacht have lots of options at 10 so he is showing his talents no doubt.

One strange thing that stands out for me reading these posts is that quite a lot of the lads being talked about like Byrne, O'Hagan, Dardis, Rory Maloney who was great as well, then add in James Ryan, Brewer maybe Cleary, (know they are not playing 20's this year yet and could name more) these lads are all U19 and eligible next year as well. Not starting next years tread but lots of great players playing a year up

wise7 · 19-09-2013 3:46pm

LEINSTER UNDER-20: v Ulster Donnybrook Friday 20th at 7.30
15: Billy Dardis (UCD)
14: Cian Kelleher (Lansdowne)
13: Gary Ringrose (Blackrock College)
12: Stephen O'Neill (Terenure College RFC)
11: Ian Fitzpatrick (Lansdowne)
10: Ross Byrne (UCD)
9: Nick McCarthy (St. Michael's College)
1: Ivan Soroka (Belvedere College SJ)
2: Dylan Donnellan (UCD)
3: Oisin Heffernan (Lansdowne)
4: Ross Moloney (UCD) CAPTAIN
5: Stephen Gardiner (Lansdowne)
6: Michael Triggs (Lansdowne)
7: Stephen Keelan (Clongowes Wood College SJ)
8: Josh Murphy (UCD)
REPLACEMENTS:
16: Shane Delahunt (Lansdowne)
17: Denis Coulson (Lansdowne)
18: Craig Trenier (Terenure College RFC)
19: Jack O'Neill (Lansdowne)
20: Sean Coughlan (Blackrock College)
21: Charlie Rock (Old Belvedere RFC)
22: Conor McKeon (Lansdowne)
23: Cormac Brennan (Old Belvedere RFC)

The Lost Sheep · 19-09-2013 3:49pm

Connacht team named for tomorrows game against Munster
Jacob Walshe, Scott Flanagan, Saba Meunargia
Josh O’Rourke, Shane Boyle
Sam McCormack, Sean O Brien, Rory Moloney
Caolin Blade, Sean OHagan
Eoghan O’Reilly, Andrew McAleer, Rory Parata, Mark O’Keefe
Ciaran Gaffney
subs:
Conor Duffy, Dan McCardle, Andrew Barr, Jack Dineen, Paul Hackett, Conor Kerins, Ben Carty, Charlie Ryan

The Lost Sheep · 19-09-2013 4:08pm

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

Connacht team named for tomorrows game against Munster
Jacob Walshe, Scott Flanagan, Saba Meunargia
Josh O’Rourke, Shane Boyle
Sam McCormack, Sean O Brien, Rory Moloney
Caolin Blade, Sean OHagan
Eoghan O’Reilly, Andrew McAleer, Rory Parata, Mark O’Keefe
Ciaran Gaffney
subs:
Conor Duffy, Dan McCardle, Andrew Barr, Jack Dineen, Paul Hackett, Conor Kerins, Ben Carty, Charlie Ryan

And the Munster side that will face them
David Johnston, Alex Wootton, Dan Goggin, Sam Sterling, Greg O’Shea, Gearoid Lyons, Ryan Foley; Mikey Lynch, Ben Burns, Rory Burke; John Madigan, Patrick Kearns, Lee Nicholas, Aidan Butler, Jack O’Donoghue
Replacements: Max Abbott, Sean McGee, James Maxwell, Darragh Moloney, Sonny Dwyer, Aaron Atkinson, Ned Hodson, Adrian Enright

hype101 · 19-09-2013 7:50pm

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

Connacht team named for tomorrows game against Munster
Jacob Walshe, Scott Flanagan, Saba Meunargia
Josh O’Rourke, Shane Boyle
Sam McCormack, Sean O Brien, Rory Moloney
Caolin Blade, Sean OHagan
Eoghan O’Reilly, Andrew McAleer, Rory Parata, Mark O’Keefe
Ciaran Gaffney
subs:
Conor Duffy, Dan McCardle, Andrew Barr, Jack Dineen, Paul Hackett, Conor Kerins, Ben Carty, Charlie Ryan

Could be the HB pairing for the six nations and the JWC?

The Lost Sheep · 19-09-2013 7:53pm

hype101 wrote: »

Could be the HB pairing for the six nations and the JWC?

most definitely could be. Should be at Connacht Munster tomorrow so should have good report on how they get on this time tomorrow

.ak · 20-09-2013 9:13am

wise7 wrote: »

LEINSTER UNDER-20: v Ulster Donnybrook Friday 20th at 7.30
15: Billy Dardis (UCD)
14: Cian Kelleher (Lansdowne)
13: Gary Ringrose (Blackrock College)
12: Stephen O'Neill (Terenure College RFC)
11: Ian Fitzpatrick (Lansdowne)
10: Ross Byrne (UCD)
9: Nick McCarthy (St. Michael's College)
1: Ivan Soroka (Belvedere College SJ)
2: Dylan Donnellan (UCD)
3: Oisin Heffernan (Lansdowne)
4: Ross Moloney (UCD) CAPTAIN
5: Stephen Gardiner (Lansdowne)
6: Michael Triggs (Lansdowne)
7: Stephen Keelan (Clongowes Wood College SJ)
8: Josh Murphy (UCD)
REPLACEMENTS:
16: Shane Delahunt (Lansdowne)
17: Denis Coulson (Lansdowne)
18: Craig Trenier (Terenure College RFC)
19: Jack O'Neill (Lansdowne)
20: Sean Coughlan (Blackrock College)
21: Charlie Rock (Old Belvedere RFC)
22: Conor McKeon (Lansdowne)
23: Cormac Brennan (Old Belvedere RFC)

No Adam Byrne? Injured, or travelling as cover with seniors?

wise7 · 20-09-2013 9:54am

.ak wrote: »

No Adam Byrne? Injured, or travelling as cover with seniors?

Injured last week against Munster.

The Lost Sheep · 20-09-2013 10:48am

.ak wrote: »

No Adam Byrne? Injured, or travelling as cover with seniors?

didnt look comfortable at all last week on pitch. Taken off injured.
Any predictions for tonights games? Think Munster may edge Connacht and Leinster to just hold off Ulster. Anyone any different?

student1990 · 20-09-2013 5:59pm

Connacht thrashing Munster there now. Double digit lead.

Quint2010 · 20-09-2013 6:29pm

student1990 wrote: »

Connacht thrashing Munster there now. Double digit lead.

Double-digit? 10 points?

The Lost Sheep · 20-09-2013 6:33pm

student1990 wrote: »

Connacht thrashing Munster there now. Double digit lead.

Not exactly thrashing reading reports on twitter

Quint2010 wrote: »

Double-digit? 10 points?

16-10 to Connacht. game virt over

student1990 · 20-09-2013 6:42pm

was 16-0 for a large portion of the first half, munster did well to pull it back.

student1990 · 20-09-2013 7:53pm

7-7 Leinster Ulster

Kelleher with another try

The Lost Sheep · 20-09-2013 8:36pm

12-12 halftime. Good game from reports.

porterbelly · 20-09-2013 8:46pm

student1990 wrote: »

was 16-0 for a large portion of the first half, munster did well to pull it back.

2 yellow card for Connacht in 2nd half, Rory Moloney and Rory Parara. Saba Meunargia the TH went off injured as did Sean O Brien the captain.

Ref played 12 minutes of injury time

Hagz · 20-09-2013 9:35pm

So no team gets the slam.

The Lost Sheep · 20-09-2013 9:44pm

17-17 draw between Leinster Ulster means Interpro title goes to Leinster

So with Interpros out of the way. What do people think Irish squad will look like?

Ireland u20 6 Nations and Junior World Cup 2014

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