Ireland Under-20 2024 Team

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.

Because no channel signed up and world rugby chose to show games on rugby pass which they purchased than simply on youtube

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

Italy and Argentina score at the same time

SA 0-24 Argentina

Australia 0 - 14 Italy

I've mainly been watching Italy v Australia and honestly, where was this Italy team against Ireland? Have been utterly dominant from start to finish, 14 points probably flatters Australia if anything.

EDIT - Australia score a try with basically their first attack from a maul!

And ironically SA also score a try at the same time from a penalty try!

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.

Crazy set of results, tournament is wide open, Ireland had a bad day, but with a few first teamers back, could do well, maybe today was a needed wake up.

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.

has someone done the team of the last 3 years U20? Good insights to the future

agree but the stand out guys do and I have stand out for at least half of the 15 , just interesting to see if someone else has done the hard yards . Easier of course to pick the backs as skills v bulk is easier to identify at the u20 age group

Hard to know what to make of the result today, I'm veering towards the glass half empty view, maybe there are too many options available in certain positions, but we need Faloon to make the correct calls which I think from today's game might be a bit clearer in the games ahead. The backrow didn't work and the centers defensively didnt seem to work well together either. There's more to come from Gleeson and he can be a real game changer if match fit so wouldn't blame him for backrow issues and it improved when he came on even though the balance wasn't right. Our scrums will always struggle but games are not won or lost there, and that goes for Irish teams in general

give it a try man! I’ll start with the easy bit

7 Culhane

8 Gleeson

9 Gunne

10 Prendergast

Tell me more !!

Dupont was on the bench for France u20s, some players just explode at senior rugby and others don't translate as well. If you look at the list of u20 player of the year the careers of the players vary from world class to names you haven't heard. The provinces job is to give talent with the potential the platform to fulfill il that potential.