Probably the strongest team we could put out. Will be interested to see how the backrow works together. Glad to see they went with Madigan as well and the not the safe pair of hands of Jackson. I think the Madigan-Olding axis could be very exciting for Ireland.

Fair play to Robbie as well. With TOH and Griffin in the Emerging Team and Bolland doing well in the U20's Connacht is beginning to join the conveyor belt of talent that's feeding into the Irish Squads.

Big congrats to Robbie. It's been a remarkable year for him

Ireland:
Henshaw,
McFadden,
Cave,
Olding,
Zebo,
Madigan,
Boss.

Kilcoyne,
Strauss,
Ross,
McCarthy,
Toner,
Henderson,
Henry,
O'Mahony

Ireland Replacements:
Sherry,
Hagan,
Court,
Tuohy,
O'Donnell,
Marshall,
Jackson,
Jones

Thanks dude. Thankfully Máire-Treasa will make everything alright.

connachtexile wrote: When are we playing the USA? I'm paranoid about missing it.

Saturday week at half past stupid in the morning, thanks to the time differential.

www.irishrugby.ie/rugby/results_and_fixtures_ireland.php

Live on T(hank)G(od)4(Máire-Treasa).

When are we playing the USA? I'm paranoid about missing it.

Whats the story with Donnacha Ryan? Is he injured? Not in the squad but not on the irfus injured list either

Has been playing since the 6N with a busted shoulder so has being given the rest of the summer of to rehab it properly.

Girls, please!

Donnacha struggled through to the end of season with a shoulder injury so is probably being rested.

The arguement you are having is with yourself. I merely pointed out the error in your post.as for the rest of your post if you think you know best well fair enough. Good luck in the rugby management career. If you enjoy a fraction of deccies success it will be a good one.

Whats the story with Donnacha Ryan? Is he injured? Not in the squad but not on the irfus injured list either

it was you who posted incorrectly not me and POM had a good 6ns as did sob. not sure what you are on about and i dont think you do either

I'll happily concede that I was wrong that he wasn't the pinned on 7 for Ireland just Ulster. As for the rest let me clarify. Henry was injured for most of the 6N only playing 2 games because of a knee injury so I don't think that it is fair to compare how he played in the 6N as he couldn't. Also if he had being fit and we'd a manager with half a brain it would have being 6 SOB 7 Henry 8 Heaslip as our backrow. Henry is the best 7 playing in Ireland for Ireland right now (I consider SOB to be a 6 and I don't think he had a good 6N tbh carrying way to much ball and getting isolated way to many times leading to turnovers.)

POM is a decent player but is rated way more highly in Munster then he is outside Munster. I'm not saying he is a bad player, far from it he's just not as good as people think and I for one am tired of his faux-hardman routine every time there's a pushing match on the pitch. Henry on the other hand is respected by all and with a new Manager for Ireland who isn't provincially biased he'll be seeing a lot more gametime for Ireland.

We're not going to agree and we never have about Kidney or his choices so I don't see the point of continuing this argument we'll have to agree to disagree. In fact I'm not going to continue as I'm tired of rehashing this. Kidney is a divisive figure and will be for the near future. I'm never going to agree with you about his decisions and I think keeping on Kiss was the wrong choice. Hopefully Schmidt can reign him in.

As for anyone interesting my definition of Kidneyitis is this:

Kidneyitis : Two players of equal worth but one is from Munster so we'll definitely pick him like.

you have lost me now!

it was you who posted incorrectly not me and POM had a good 6ns as did sob. not sure what you are on about and i dont think you do either

Nailed down 7 for which senior team? Sean o brien is irelands nailed down 7.

I dont know what AIs and 6ns you saw but the one i watched had POM at 6 and henry on bench when sob returned from injury.

Yeah and that worked out sooooo well for Ireland.

Nailed down 7 for which senior team? Sean o brien is irelands nailed down 7.

Nailed down 7 for which senior team? Sean o brien is irelands nailed down 7.

I dont know what AIs and 6ns you saw but the ond i watched had POM at 6 and henry on bench when sob returned from injury.