Ireland Under-20 2024 Team

Never know with kids. Yes not a good performance. Maybe overconfidence.

This has been a monumentally frustrating watch

Unforced errors, sloppy penalties, missed/passive tackles and subpar set pieces. If we sneak this at the death it'll be a travesty.

But it's a travesty I'll gladly take!

Pulled it out of the bag..

heart-breaking for Georgia

Gavin's clear out on the edge when the ball went wide to Smyth was so important there - he was so isolated.

I wonder if they knew the drop goal would suffice...

That Georgian kicker will have serious nightmares about those two missed kicks...

Great belief from the Irish players to play passing rugby when a point down with time up and deserved the score at the end to clinch it.

They did deserve it, they were dominant in the first half, defended well towards the end of the second half and upped the work rate when they needed a score to win it.
They worked the ball from touchline to touchline from the half-way line and didn’t let up, could have tried a drop goal but kept it going in the forwards, sucked them in with pressure on the try line and swung it far wide to run it in the other side of the pitch.
It showed the boys believed they could do it, no panic, trusted their ability and managed to win 2 minutes into extra time.
Slotted the conversion from the side-line too.

We seem to select (in all the academies) for size and athletic dynanism over scrummaging. I personally think its a good strategy to be honest but the reason scrummaging is bad is cos it isn't a priority.

Great second half in France v New Zealand. NZ win with a penalty kick in injury time which had to be confirmed by the TMO!

French 6 is some athlete - French 9 also looks very nippy. Kiwi 11 that phonebooth sidestep.

The coverage is free and is good quality on RugbyPass from what I’ve seen. All you need is an email address, not much to complain about.

I signed up to rugby pass for this. Totally simple and easy, I'd be happy to watch all rugby this way.

Like the 4 minute highlight options as well.

Rugby pass also shows the 7 series which is great and they showed Eng v Japan last week . Great service

i honestly think we have the team to win this thing. Bring back sheahan, spicer, gleeson and murphy into the starting line up and it will make a massive difference.

To me the drop off from murphy to naughton, and sheahan to smyth is pretty big right now especially. Smyth has higher upside imo so there is an argument to play him anyway. I'f question Murphy's ceiling but he is incredibly polished for an u20s ten.

I think getting Treacy and McLaughlin back in as well, not to mention spicer and gleeson.

I think people are downplaying Georgia, they beat England a couple of wks ago. Their Pack are monsters , their outhalf has played senior internationals for Georgia. They are a very good team and we done very well to beat them.