Team Vs Scotland?

I personally think that team is very experienced the pack is very experienced minus Cronin and the two Ryans in the back line you have Fitzy,Trimble,Sexton,Earls and Boss thats fairly experienced three of them won the heiniken cup this year its not like McFadden and Jones havent played in big matches and done well.

Ireland team to play Scotland at Murrayfield on Saturday 5 August at 2.15pm:

15. Rob Kearney
14. Andrew Trimble
13. Fergus McFadden
12. Paddy Wallace
11. Luke Fitzgerald
10. Jonathan Sexton
9. Tomás O'Leary
1. Tom Court
2. Sean Cronin
3. Tony Buckley
4. Donnacha Ryan
5. Leo Cullen (captain)
6. Mike McCarthy
7. Niall Ronan
8. Denis Leamy

Replacements:

16. Jerry Flannery
17. Marcus Horan
18. John Hayes
19. Mick O'Driscoll
20. Kevin McLaughlin
21. Isaac Boss
22. Felix Jones

jesus Irish - you and monsier Kidney have some different forwards philosophies then

Good Team though? You printed it but gave no opinion?

Its the team that was announced on rte.ie

Happy to see Mike Mc get a chance, and Sean Cronin aswell. Its a decent team, but I think the front row could struggle. To be honest I'm not sure how Scotland are in the scrum with the team picked, but I know Mushy isnt the best scrummager. Good to see Dennis Leamy back aswell.

Dissapointed Geordan isnt in the squad though, and itll be interesting to see how Paddy and Fergus do in the centre!

I was expecting DK to experiment but this... WOW this is basically a BS team.

I'm far from impressed with this. In fact im bloody angry.

This is a massive cop-out and now i understand why Leamy was spouting a load of nonsense yesterday about not making the same mistakes as the last WC. Ur light Denis. Instead of those mistakes we have decided to invent a whole new list. I shall call it...
"Lets field all the journeymen and hope no one notices"
Meanwhile we will wrap drico and company in cotton wool and go into the WC totally undercooked.

Calm down mate! Its only the first game. I have faith in DK. Lets just see how it goes. Plenty of game time before the 11th and I'm sure he wants everyone to get some game time!

ye leeds, gota live with it i guess. but it is a cop-out.

really hope that we see some balls in the selections for the french and english games.

anyway, as for the scots in the scrum. We are gona get creamed.

Delighted to see Donnacha Ryan and Leo Cullen

Our back row is a worry and is desperately inexperienced at international level and facing these 3 they are in trouble.
6 - Alasdair Strokosch (Gloucester)
7 - Ross Rennie (Edinburgh)
8 - Johnnie Beattie (Glasgow Warriors)

TOL was always gona get a chance to prove himself, and if he fails DK will give him more chances. Because DK likes him. Wonderful eh... on a serious note... if he could just sharpen up his pass all other aspects of his game are very good. But the primary function of a SH is to pass the ball rapidly and accurately and every time. and he does not do any of these things.

Our wings and our centres i think should have the measure of the scots.

I worry for Kearney at the back.
Patterson will punish him with up and unders and while we know he has been a supremo at taking up and unders i the past... well he has had very little game time... so fingers crossed for him.
But deserves is chance to prove himself.

Bench: Contains 0 impact. With the possible exception of Felix Jones. Hope he gets a decent run, and hope he does well. Been playing well for munster toward the end of the season.

Im gonna stick my neck out and surprise everyone with a prediction - based on the Ireland side - and the tight games that murrayfielkd has produced between these teams over the last few years - Im gonna plump for Scotland by 3 points - that said I wish you luck

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