Ireland Team Talk XII: Farrell's First Fifteen

Fredinho

Think with Uncle Warren, unless the Irish player is playing twice as well as a Welsh or English counterpart they won't be going. I'd expect to see maybe 6-8 Irish players going, possibly less. And you know what I'd have no issue with it. Give all of our front line players a full summer off. Let them rest, get surgeries, recover from long standing medical issues or just heal up.

kilns

Fredinho wrote: »

Think with Uncle Warren, unless the Irish player is playing twice as well as a Welsh or English counterpart they won't be going. I'd expect to see maybe 6-8 Irish players going, possibly less. And you know what I'd have no issue with it. Give all of our front line players a full summer off. Let them rest, get surgeries, recover from long standing medical issues or just heal up.

It would be a weird scenario if Wales win the grand slam with a group of ordinary players with not many who'd make a lions team

TRC10

Fredinho wrote: »

Think with Uncle Warren, unless the Irish player is playing twice as well as a Welsh or English counterpart they won't be going. I'd expect to see maybe 6-8 Irish players going, possibly less. And you know what I'd have no issue with it. Give all of our front line players a full summer off. Let them rest, get surgeries, recover from long standing medical issues or just heal up.

To be honest I think we'll have more. We had poor tournaments in 2013 and 2017 yet we were still very well represented. Here's who I think will go

Furlong
Porter
Henderson
Ryan
Beirne
Stander
Sexton
Henshaw
Ringrose

The way Will Connors is playing, he could be in with a shout too.

molloyjh

Sooooooo 3pm team announcement eh!?

theVersatile

Something daft going on here - reckon we're starting Craig Casey and Joey Carbery.

arsebiscuits1

TRC10 wrote: »

To be honest I think we'll have more. We had poor tournaments in 2013 and 2017 yet we were still very well represented. Here's who I think will go

Furlong
Porter
Henderson
Ryan
Beirne
Stander
Sexton
Henshaw
Ringrose

The way Will Connors is playing, he could be in with a shout too.

Would be delighted for Will to go.

But I reckon Curry, Watson and Underhill are all on the plane as 7 options.

Yes I know Underhill is injured. I just suspect he's gonna travel

bilston

I wonder if someone has pulled up in training?

awec

arsebiscuits1

Josh?

I'm surprised but delighted for the lad.

Good to see Conan come in. Hope he has a cracker

aloooof

Harsh on Connors.

Former Former Former

After all that, POM on the bench. Love it.

Big chance for Kilcoyne. Connors very unlucky.

theVersatile

15. Hugo Keenan (Leinster/UCD) 10 caps
14. Keith Earls (Munster/Young Munster) 92 caps
13. Robbie Henshaw (Leinster/Buccaneers) 51 caps
12. Bundee Aki (Connacht/Galwegians) 30 caps
11. Jacob Stockdale (Ulster/Lurgan) 33 caps
10. Jonathan Sexton (Leinster/St Mary’s College) 98 caps CAPTAIN
9. Conor Murray (Munster/Garryowen) 88 caps
1. Dave Kilcoyne (Munster/UL Bohemians) 42 caps
2. Rob Herring (Ulster/Ballynahinch) 20 caps
3. Tadhg Furlong (Leinster/Clontarf) 48 caps
4. Iain Henderson (Ulster/Academy) 62 caps
5. Tadhg Beirne (Munster/Lansdowne) 21 caps
6. CJ Stander (Munster/Shannon) 50 caps
7. Josh van der Flier (Leinster/UCD) 30 caps
8. Jack Conan (Leinster/Old Belvedere) 19 caps

Replacements
16. Ronan Kelleher (Leinster/Lansdowne) 10 caps
17. Cian Healy (Leinster/Clontarf) 108 caps
18. Andrew Porter (Leinster/UCD) 36 caps
19. Ryan Baird (Leinster/Dublin University) 2 caps
20. Peter O’Mahony (Munster/Cork Constitution) 74 caps
21. Jamison Gibson Park (Leinster) 9 caps
22. Billy Burns (Ulster) 6 caps
23. Jordan Larmour (Leinster/St Mary’s College) 28 caps

Will Connors was ruled out yesterday with a knee injury in training so Josh van der Flier comes in at openside.

yerrahbah

Healy, JGP and Lowe dropped

Connors is injured

TRC10

arsebiscuits1 wrote: »

Would be delighted for Will to go.

But I reckon Curry, Watson and Underhill are all on the plane as 7 options.

Yes I know Underhill is injured. I just suspect he's gonna travel

I think Curry will go as a 6

The Inbetween is mine

Couple of surprises there... lovely to see Killer there

Former Former Former

Should have left Henshaw at 12 too.

theVersatile

aloooof wrote: »

Harsh on Connors.

Knee injury in training per the website

TRC10

yerrahbah wrote: »

Healy, JGP and Lowe dropped

Connors is injured

They must have been waiting to see if Connors could play, hence the delay.

Josh has been playing some great stuff though so not a big drop off but Connors was unbelievable last week.

I like the back row. Conan offers something different and has been playing great.

Downlinz

Happy with most of those selections, a bit surprised to see Conan in instead of POM but I suppose that might be down to game time.

Great to see Murray, Stockdale and Aki back in along with Kilcoyne promoted, it feels like the strongest team we've been able to field this year.

Brewster

TRC10 wrote: »

They must have been waiting to see if Connors could play, hence the delay.

Josh has been playing some great stuff though so not a big dropped but Connors was unbelievable last week.

I like the back row. Conan offers something different and has been playing great.

Yes Connors was reason for team delay I heard.

yerrahbah

Big game for Stockdale

Brewster

Certainly a team capable of taking England on. Huge chance for Stockdale now, hopefully he can re establish himself. Back row is well balanced, not sure they have ever started together before?

The Inbetween is mine

yerrahbah wrote: »

Big game for Stockdale

Bigger game for Conan tbh

AdamD

Our 10/12/13 is a lot bulkier than theirs

VANG1

England will target Sexton

VANG1

Polite is TMO hope he’s awake

VANG1

VANG1 wrote: »

England will target Sexton

(team) will target (flyhalf)

kilns

Well nobody expected that team

irishbucsfan

Really interested to see how this one goes.

Hope Conan has a massive game, huge opportunity for him

Tommybojangles

I'm about as happy as I could have imagined myself being with that