Official Irish Rugby thread 2018/2019

[SunshineSupporter]

Channel 4 wins rights for Ireland's November internationals from Sky Sports

http://www.the42.ie/channel-4-ireland-november-internationals-4220064-Sep2018/

 

[Coogee]

Cooney has to start in November surely? He can't continue to be overlooked?

Connacht lost by a point but can consider themselves unlucky, Hogg clearly carried the ball over his goal line with seconds to go and the ref gave a drop out rather than a scrum pretty much under the posts. Ref was pretty poor all games.

with murray possibly out of the nov internationals Cooney will surely start either the Italy or Argentina games...Marmion and Mcgrath the only other options suppose...all three could start a game with the USA up last

 

[Coogee]

Ulster team to play Edinburgh, Guinness PRO14, Friday 7th September, Kingspan Stadium (7.35pm):
(15-9): W Addison; C Gilroy, D Cave, S McCloskey, H Speight; B Burns, J Cooney;
(1-: A Warwick, R Herring (captain), R Kane , K Treadwell, I Henderson, M Coetzee, J Murphy, N Timoney;
Replacements (16-23): A McBurney, E O'Sullivan, W Herbst, A O'Connor, S Reidy, D Shanahan, A Curtis, A Kernohan.

take Herring, Henderson and Murphy out of that pack and they are fair weak!!

 

[nelly sham]

That's a very weak bench.
Will be good to see where Edinburgh are at though, left the game behind them at the Ospreys last week, these are the games they need to be winning if they want to challenge this season.

Cockerill has recruited well too.

 

[nelly sham]

Leinster: Jordan Larmour, Fergus McFadden, Rory O'Loughlin, Robbie Henshaw, James Lowe, Ross Byrne, Jamison Gibson-Park, Cian Healy, Seán Cronin, Tadhg Furlong, Devin Toner,Ian Nagle, Josh Murphy, Rhys Ruddock, Jack Conan

Replacements: James Tracy, Peter Dooley, Andrew Porter, Mick Kearney, Max Deegan, Luke McGrath, Noel Reid, Joe Tomane.

Very strong XV for Leinster.

 

[Meridian]

News for The UK, looks like the clubs are looking for private capital funding, will this create a draw for good Irish players in the long run?

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/06/premiership-clubs-cvc-275m-takeover

 

[Coogee]

Very strong XV for Leinster.

strong side alright..will be interesting to see larmour at full back for a few games..will he get enough game time to make the irish 15 shirt his?

good to see Ruddock back and hopefully he stays injury free

 

[Coogee]

Connacht side

(15-9) Tiernan O’Halloran, Cian Kelleher, Eoin Griffin, Kyle Godwin, Matt Healy, Jack Carty, Caolin Blade, (1-8) Denis Buckley, Dave Heffernan, Finlay Bealham, Gavin Thornbury, Quinn Roux, Sean O’Brien, Jarrad Butler, Paul Boyle.
Replacements (16-23): Shane Delahunt, Conán O’Donnell, Dominic Robertson-McCoy, James Cannon, Colby Fainga’a, Kieran Marmion, Craig Ronaldson, Niyi Adeolokun.

 

[nelly sham]

Cooney winning it at the death for Ulster. Edinburgh threw away a 10 point lead from HT.

 

[nelly sham]

Bernard Jackman’s Dragon made hard work of the Kings, an awful coach yet lauded by the Irish media.

Conan not ripping out trees for Leinster either. Needs a big season.