So you are EOS whats your team for Sat?

Diamondmaker · 15-06-2006 12:34PM #1

Not been a new thread for ages and this one should generate some interest.

Heres my "radical" view:D I woyld love to see does the leinster back + Munster foprward equation add uop the way it should! Best deserves to be in there too.

15 - Girvan Dempsey
14 - Shane Horgan
13 - Brian O'Driscoll
12 - Gordon D'Arcy
11 - Denis Hickie
10 - Ronan O'Gara
9 - Peter Stringer
1 - Marcus Horan
2 - Jerry Flannery
3 - John Hayes
4 - Donncha O'Callaghan
5 - Paul O'Connell
6 - Neil Best
7 - David Wallace
8 - Denis Leamy

NO PLAYERS THAT DID NOT TRAVEL!!

Crash · 15-06-2006 12:47PM

15 - Geordan Murphy
14 - Shane Horgan
13 - Brian O'Driscoll
12 - Gordon D'arcy
11 - Andrew Trimble
10 - Ronan O'Gara
9 - Peter Stringer
1 - Marcus Horan
2 - Jerry Flannery
3 - John Hayes
4 - Donncha O'Callaghan
5 - Paul O'Connell
6 - Neil Best
7 - Gleeson
8 - Denis Leamy

you may notice this team has only one change, because i'm of the opinion that this is a damn strong team anyway. what we need to do is

1. if Murphy is looking off the ball or we need a bit more of a mover and shaker, we bring girv in.
2. keep an eye on D'arcy - come half time, if he's looking shook and holding off on contact, take him off. Trimble into centre, Hickie onto the left wing.
3. Sub Horan off between 40-60 minutes. we need him while he's fit, but he's a liability in the scrum against the AB's, so he starts to really lose pace thanks to the scrum exhausting him, we sub him off.
4. when we start losing it a bit in the second row, Mick O'Driscoll on.
5. keep gleeson in at the start (had only really had a good think of this thanks to DaveIRL mentioning it, and the more i thought about it the smarter it seemed) and have Wallace ready as an impact sub.
and my final, match winning suggestion for EOS:
6. stop being a sap. :P

Diamondmaker · 15-06-2006 01:59PM

re point 6:

crybaby · 15-06-2006 03:17PM

trimble would get targeted and be destroyed if he ever went near centre, I agree though that someone needs to give Murphy a swift kick up the hole when he is not performing.

Diamondmaker · 15-06-2006 04:32PM

fair point Trimble has not the bulk or the wile as yet for centre. Darcy can always punp a few more yards with his legs and power but trimble has not got this strength.

It would be foolish I think to break the darcy Odriscoll alignment as they know each other so well.

Amazotheamazing · 15-06-2006 04:57PM

Gleeson has no place playing for Ireland, I'd honestly have him behind Wallace, Jennings and O'Connor. In the 20 minutes he was on he showed why we were missing Wallace.

crybaby · 16-06-2006 11:32AM

yes gleeson was very poor when he came on but Wallace was in real dire shape at that point in the game, that penalty he gave away was the most ridiculous thing ive seen in awhile he literally lay there on top of the ball because he didn't have the energy to get up

carlowboy · 16-06-2006 12:07PM

I'd have Heaslip in but judging by your rules:

15. Girvan
14. Horgan
13. BOD
12. D'Arcy
11. Arnie Trimble
10. O'Gara *sigh*
9. Boss
8. Leamy
7. Gleeson
6. Wallace
5. O'Connell
4. O' Callaghan
3. Hayes
2. Flannery
1. Young

16. Horan
17. Best
18 O' Driscoll
19. Best
20. Quinlan
21. Stringer
22. Murphy

I have two back rowers on the bench and a potential 3rd. I can see Leamy lasting the game but not sure about the other two. So that leaves two backs in the subs. With Murphy and Boss, you have 2 players who can cover the entire backline.

Diamondmaker · 16-06-2006 12:12PM

I would love Jamie too, seems I have an obvious Leinster bias but I see him play a lot more than the Leamy fans possibly, as they see Leamy play a lot more. A natural bias I guess;)

But whos mister fancy naming the bench too, but is Boss not a MAJOR gamble, c'mon throw him on V the Blacks:(

( meant to be a worried face )

10. O'Gara *sigh*:D

Crash · 16-06-2006 12:29PM

Well personally I love ole Heaslip (not only is he a leinster boy, he also seems to be the only good thing to come out of a Dublin University team in god knows how long) but I have a serious serious doubt of eddie calling up anyone from the A's at the mo - so I might as well name a possible realistic team

carlowboy · 16-06-2006 04:00PM

&#231 wrote: »

Well personally I love ole Heaslip (not only is he a leinster boy, he also seems to be the only good thing to come out of a Dublin University team in god knows how long) but I have a serious serious doubt of eddie calling up anyone from the A's at the mo - so I might as well name a possible realistic team

Which is why I didn't name him in my team. Having said that, he's been carving up the Churchill cup with the As

Diamond, my main point was the bench. And Stringer was terrible last week which is why he should be dropped.Also, I don't reckon Boss will be such a gamble as you make out. Here's a player more used to playing against the New Zealand players (in Kelleher's case with) during his time with the Chiefs and the Hurricanes. He's also been Ireland's top scrum-half since New Year now.

shortys94 · 16-06-2006 04:22PM

sorry but what time is match on tomorrow 8.30 am?

carlowboy · 16-06-2006 04:31PM

8.35am

So you are EOS whats your team for Sat?

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