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Irish Wolfhounds vs England Saxons 30/1/15 Independent Park ko 19:45

I understood, was just making a counter point that size is far from everything and Burgess is still very raw. Probably should've been less cleverd1ck about it...!

I know D'Arcy's been past his best for a while, but he's got a lot of experience to use against a man who hasn't yet put in s truly Premiership class 80 minute performance for his club.

Ah fair enough. Yeah I'm hoping he'll show that experience alright. He's not hotstepping through defenses any more but he's still better at the breakdown than a lot of backrows out there and has underrated distribution.
 
Re Burgess vs O'Brien/henderson..... That's exactly why we need to use Sam as a decoy to create space for the likes of Daly...in the way England never worked out they could by using Tuilagi as a decoy...
You've got to engineer the right situations. Because Ireland can and will nullify Burgess.
 
Will be interesting to see how this goes.

The quality of Saxons performances have been pretty dire recently.
 
And the bad news is in. Fitz is out although it's for once not because of injury, he's got a stomach bug. Gilroy starts and Conway takes the 23 shirt.
 
Kvesic - brilliant

Edit: this game will be ruined by this ref.
 
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