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2024 Guinness Six Nations
Ireland: 6 Nations plusses, minuses and where to go from here
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<blockquote data-quote="snoopy snoopy dog dog" data-source="post: 308552"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (King D'arcy @ Mar 25 2010, 08:59 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=442133" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p>I'm not certain. Perhaps it's because the international squad will miss the first 5 or so games in next year's Magners League and Declan Kidney doesn't want to **** off the provincial coaches by using their 2nd tier players (ie the likely Churchill Cup players) for an extra month during the summer.</p><p></p><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div></p><p>There are some excellent players in that squad. It wouldn't shock me if more than half of them went on to have long careers as pro players with top teams. It'll be a few years before they're ready - before Christmas the u20s lost to inexperienced Leinster and Ulster A teams. They did beat a Munster A/development team though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="snoopy snoopy dog dog, post: 308552"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (King D'arcy @ Mar 25 2010, 08:59 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=442133']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> I'm not certain. Perhaps it's because the international squad will miss the first 5 or so games in next year's Magners League and Declan Kidney doesn't want to **** off the provincial coaches by using their 2nd tier players (ie the likely Churchill Cup players) for an extra month during the summer. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div> There are some excellent players in that squad. It wouldn't shock me if more than half of them went on to have long careers as pro players with top teams. It'll be a few years before they're ready - before Christmas the u20s lost to inexperienced Leinster and Ulster A teams. They did beat a Munster A/development team though. [/QUOTE]
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