The IRISH RUGBY thread

[Walter Cronc]

A. Ireland Scotland Japan
B. New Zealand South Africa Italy
C. England France Argentina
D. Australia Wales Georgia

Happy days!! Great draw!

[DuffleKing]

England's group 

[Maroon Manc]

A great draw.

Do they know who they could face in a potential quarter final?

[shark]

A great draw.

Do they know who they could face in a potential quarter final?

Group B runners up, should they win the group.

[Estimator]

Someone has already tweeted that Ireland cannot play NZ or England until the final. Which given Ireland's World Cup record is a bit presumptuous.

[screenexile]

Someone has already tweeted that Ireland cannot play NZ or England until the final. Which given Ireland's World Cup record is a bit presumptuous.

Presuming NZ top Group B and SA are runner up we play SA if we top our group or NZ if we are runner up!!

[yellowcard]

It is totally bizarre to carry out a draw for a competition that is 2 1/2 years away. Why not carry it out 6 months beforehand when the seedings are current and more relevant. You ccould easily predict 7 out of the q/finalists already.

[screenexile]

It is totally bizarre to carry out a draw for a competition that is 2 1/2 years away. Why not carry it out 6 months beforehand when the seedings are current and more relevant. You ccould easily predict 7 out of the q/finalists already.

In fairness you can do that for most of the WC's!

[shark]

It is totally bizarre to carry out a draw for a competition that is 2 1/2 years away. Why not carry it out 6 months beforehand when the seedings are current and more relevant. You ccould easily predict 7 out of the q/finalists already.

In fairness you can do that for most of the WC's!

You mean football World Cup? Ah I don't think so. In 2014 Costa Rica made the last 8, after topping a group that had Italy and England knocked out from. Spain and Portugal were knocked out in the group stages. Many people would have fancied them for last 8.

I love the RWC when it rocks around, but it is very predicatable as to who the last 8 will be. It's 8 from 9 really. The group the contains the 9 is always the interesting one, and that tells its own story.

[Syferus]

Heslip talking about how awesome the draw is when we got our arses handed to the team that apparently makes it easy - Scotland - is bizarre.

Odds on for a loss to SA in the QFs. How little things change.

[Walter Cronc]

It is totally bizarre to carry out a draw for a competition that is 2 1/2 years away. Why not carry it out 6 months beforehand when the seedings are current and more relevant. You ccould easily predict 7 out of the q/finalists already.

In fairness you can do that for most of the WC's!

You mean football World Cup? Ah I don't think so. In 2014 Costa Rica made the last 8, after topping a group that had Italy and England knocked out from. Spain and Portugal were knocked out in the group stages. Many people would have fancied them for last 8.

I love the RWC when it rocks around, but it is very predicatable as to who the last 8 will be. It's 8 from 9 really. The group the contains the 9 is always the interesting one, and that tells its own story.

[Owen Brannigan]

Ireland Squad Summer Tour 2017 – USA & Japan
Finlay Bealham (Buccaneers/Connacht) 6 caps
Joey Carbery (Clontarf/Leinster) 3 caps
Jack Conan (Old Belvedere/Leinster) 1 cap
Andrew Conway (Garryowen/Munster) 1 cap
John Cooney (Connacht) uncapped
Keith Earls (Young Munster/Munster) 59 caps
Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster) 67 caps
Dave Heffernan (Connacht/Buccaneers) uncapped
Paddy Jackson (Dungannon/Ulster) 23 caps
Dave Kilcoyne (UL Bohemians/Munster) 17 caps
Dan Leavy (UCD/Leinster) 2 caps
Kieran Marmion (Corinthians/Connacht) 13 caps
Luke Marshall (Ballymena/Ulster) 9 caps
Luke McGrath (UCD/Leinster) 1 cap
Tommy O'Donnell (UL Bohemians/Munster) 12 caps
Jack O'Donoghue (UL Bohemians/Munster) 1 cap
Tiernan O'Halloran (Buccaneers/Connacht) 3 caps
Rory O'Loughlin (Old Belvedere/Leinster) uncapped
Andrew Porter (UCD/Leinster) uncapped
Garry Ringrose (UCD/Leinster) 8 caps
Rhys Ruddock (St Mary's College/Leinster) 13 caps
James Ryan (UCD/Leinster) uncapped
John Ryan (Cork Constitution/Munster) 6 caps
Niall Scannell (Dolphin/Munster) 4 caps
Rory Scannell (Dolphin/Munster) uncapped
Jacob Stockdale (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster) uncapped
Devin Toner (Lansdowne/Leinster) 47 caps
James Tracy (UCD/Leinster) 2 caps
Kieran Treadwell (Ballymena/Ulster) uncapped
Josh van der Flier (UCD/Leinster) 7 caps
Simon Zebo (Cork Constitution/Munster) 33 caps

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WTF happened to Leinster??

I didn't get watching it but they were favourites for the competition, at home and had an extra man for more than a half!!

[manfromdelmonte]

Ha ha ha

they were muck
as if they thought they could breeze into the final
yer man playing number 9 hadn't a clue what he was doing
how much money did they splurge on getting Lancaster in?

the place emptied out very quickly
bandwagon

[Capt Pat]

Scarlets were very decisive. They had 3 trips into Leinsters 22 in the first half and came away with 3 converted trys. Leinster were muck though, way too many unforced errors.