Under 20's Championship

[TRF_Olyy]

Not too far off... bodes ill for Ireland.

Especially with both Englands beating both Italys by a big margin

 

[snoopy snoopy dog dog]

Snoopy, you're the only guy I've seen with anything positive to say about McIlroy. That includes ex-Windy Gappers.

I thought he played quite well yesterday behind a beaten pack. He made a couple of half decent breaks and his service to Jackson was snappy enough.

 

[snoopy snoopy dog dog]

Ireland Under - 20 v Scotland Under -20 (Friday 25th February, Kick-off 19:30. Tulloch Stadium, Inverness):

15 -Michael Sherlock (Clontarf - Leinster)
14 -Tiernan O'Halloran (Galwegians - Connacht)
13 - Alex Kelly (UCD - Leinster)
12 - JJ Hanrahan (UL Bohemian - Munster)
11 - Andrew Boyle (UCD - Leinster)
10 - Patrick Jackson (Dungannon - Ulster)
9 - Blane McIlroy (Ballymena - Ulster)
1 - James Tracy (UCD - Leinster)
2 - Niall Annett (Belfast Harlequins - Ulster) (Captain)
3 - Martin Moore (Lansdowne - Leinster)
4 - Michael Kearney (Clontarf - Leinster)
5 - Daniel Qualter (Buccaneers - Connacht)
6 - Shane Buckley (Garryowen - Munster)
7 - Aaron Conneely (Corinthians - Connacht)
8 - Jordi Murphy (Lansdowne - Leinster)

Replacements
16 - David Doyle (UCD - Leinster)
17 - Tadhg Furlong (Clontarf - Leinster)
18 - Iain Henderson (Queens - Ulster)
19 - Cathal O'Flaherty (Cork Constitution - Munster)
20 - Mark Dolan (Corinthians - Connacht)
21 - Gareth Quinn McDonogh (Shannon - Munster)
22 - Colm O'Shea (Old Belvedere - Leinster)

It appears to be a better team than the one demolished last time out by France. The coach appears to be building a squad with all the changes he's making game by game.

 

[cyRil]

What's happened to Ciaran Ruddock?

 

[snoopy snoopy dog dog]

He's overage by a couple of years.

 

[munstermuffin]

Snoop I haven't seen alot of him but I hear Murphy at 8 will be a good player.
Great to see Gareth Quinn McDonagh who always impresses me when training with Munster

 

[profitius]

Snoop I haven't seen alot of him but I hear Murphy at 8 will be a good player.
Great to see Gareth Quinn McDonagh who always impresses me when training with Munster

Watch out for Cathal O'Flaherty too. Scoring tries with Cork Con recently. I presume he'll be in the Munster academy next season.

 

[cyRil]

He's overage by a couple of years.

I thought he might not qualify for the u20s anymore, but I was asking more in general. Which club? Any prospects?

 

[Feicarsinn]

He's at Leinster aye. He hasn't featured for the Seniors this season which is a bit worrying. On the other hand, we desperately short of young locks, a position that's notorious for players developing late so there's hope for him yet.

 

[lucky number 7]

Jeepers Tadhg is subbing ...that chap is an utter monster...the amount of times he single handedly boutscrummed our front row at club level was mad..looking forward to seeing him get a run

Edit ---WOOOOHOOOOO 1,000 posts

 

[Feicarsinn]

Jeepers Tadhg is subbing ...that chap is an utter monster...the amount of times he single handedly boutscrummed our front row at club level was mad..looking forward to seeing him get a run

Edit ---WOOOOHOOOOO 1,000 posts

If that isn't a sign of the decline of this place is suffering then I don't know what is.

 

[munstermuffin]

Agreed Profitius and I expect him on academy too. I've high hopes for academy in next 2/3 years that we can get good productivity

 

[lucky number 7]

If that isn't a sign of the decline of this place is suffering then I don't know what is.

From those 1,000 posts I doubt many were at all relevant to the thread

 

[profitius]

Jeepers Tadhg is subbing ...that chap is an utter monster...the amount of times he single handedly boutscrummed our front row at club level was mad..looking forward to seeing him get a run

Edit ---WOOOOHOOOOO 1,000 posts

Ruddock is using lots of players this season for various reasons. Hopefully he'll find the best team for the world cup.

 

[profitius]

What's happened to Ciaran Ruddock?

He's not tall enough to be a lock and probably not good enough for the backrow. His brother looks like a real powerful player from what I've seen.

 

[snoopy snoopy dog dog]

Jeepers Tadhg is subbing ...that chap is an utter monster...the amount of times he single handedly boutscrummed our front row at club level was mad..looking forward to seeing him get a run

Never seen him play but heard good things about him and two years on the Ireland u18s club team shows he must have some pedigree. I hope he works out because the props dropped from the squad, Carey and Bealham, have looked nothing short of useless. I think Furlong may be eligible for this level again next year. He's in the Leinster sub academy as far as I know.

 

[munstermuffin]

Alot of credit to Ruddock though he has really thrown himself in to this job and done alot of research into players and styles etc

 

[coonor]

Alot of credit to Ruddock though he has really thrown himself in to this job and done alot of research into players and styles etc

I agree. Kidney could take a page out of his book and try to rotate the squad and give different players a chance. Ruddock knows that not winning the U-20s isn't the end of the world he wants to develop players and teams for the future and that really is what the u-20s is all about.

 

[lucky number 7]

Never seen him play but heard good things about him and two years on the Ireland u18s club team shows he must have some pedigree. I hope he works out because the props dropped from the squad, Carey and Bealham, have looked nothing short of useless. I think Furlong may be eligible for this level again next year. He's in the Leinster sub academy as far as I know.

At one stage I believe he was captaining either Leinster or Ireland 18's at the age of 16 or so the story went back in 2009

 

[profitius]

Agreed Profitius and I expect him on academy too. I've high hopes for academy in next 2/3 years that we can get good productivity

MM do you know how old is COF is? He was in school last year.