DERIBHILE NIC A BHÁIRD will miss out on Ireland’s WXV3 campaign after she picked up a knock in training game at the weekend.
Nic a Bháird, the Munster No 8, was one of Ireland’s better players during last season’s disappointing Six Nations campaign.
Ireland head coach Scott Bemand has named his squad for the upcoming tournament in Dubai.
The squad is made up of 17 forwards and 13 backs with 15 players from the inter-provincial champions Leinster. The remainder of the squad is made up of three from Munster, three from Ulster, five from Connacht and four UK-based players.
Clara Barrett, Ruth Campbell, Megan Collis, Eimear Corri, Sarah Delaney and Katie Whelan are all coming into their first senior squad and have the opportunity alongside Fiona Tuite to earn their first international cap in Dubai.
Bemand said: “Since joining the program a month ago, there has been a significant amount of work gone in to enabling this group of players to perform on the world stage.
“The playing group has been brilliant, embracing a new culture and training identity that will lay the foundations for future success. We know what we’re going after and I’m excited to see them bring it to life in WXV.”
The squad will depart for Dubai on 6 October ahead of their first game on 13 October against Kazakhstan.
Fixtures:
- 13 October versus Kazakhstan 7.30pm local time, 4.30pm Irish time
- 21 October versus Colombia 5pm local time, 2pm Irish time
- 28 October versus Spain 5pm local time, 2pm Irish time
Ireland Squad
Forwards:
- Aoife Wafer (Blackrock College/Leinster) 1
- Brittany Hogan (Old Belvedere/Ulster) 15
- Christy Haney (Blackrock College/Leinster) 10
- Dorothy Wall (Blackrock College/Munster) 20
- Edel McMahon (Exeter Chiefs) 21
- Eimear Corri (Blackrock College/Leinster)*
- Fiona Tuite (Old Belvedere/Ulster)*
- Grace Moore (Saracens/IQ Rugby) 10
- Linda Djougang (Old Belvedere/Leinster) 29
- Maeve Óg O’Leary (Blackrock College/Munster) 4
- Megan Collis (Railway Union/Leinster)*
- Neve Jones (Gloucester-Hartpury) 18
- Niamh O’Dowd (Old Belvedere/Leinster) 1
- Ruth Campbell (MU Barnhall/Leinster)*
- Sadhbh McGrath (City of Derry/Cooke/Ulster) 5
- Sam Monaghan (Gloucester-Hartpury/IQ Rugby) 15
- Sarah Delaney (Cill Dara/Leinster)*
Backs:
- Aoibheann Reilly (Blackrock College/Connacht) 4
- Aoife Dalton (Old Belvedere/Leinster) 7
- Aoife Doyle (Railway Union/Munster) 17
- Béibhinn Parsons (Blackrock College/Connacht) 18
- Clara Barrett (Ballina/Connacht)*
- Dannah O’Brien (Old Belvedere/Leinster) 7
- Eve Higgins (Railway Union/Leinster) 9
- Katie Whelan (Old Belvedere/Leinster)*
- Leah Tarpey (Railway Union/Leinster) 2
- Méabh Deely (Blackrock College/Connacht) 7
- Molly Scuffil-McCabe (Railway Union/Leinster) 9
- Nicole Fowley (Galwegians/Connacht) 8
- Natasja Behan (Blackrock College/Leinster) 7
*Denotes uncapped
“upset the natural flow of the game”. can’t agree with that. you have lads throwing themselves on the ground left, right and centre which is far more disruptive in my opinion, especially in the bigger knockout games when they’re a goal up. sure they had water breaks in some matches in the last World Cup which went by almost unnoticed. time for the video ref.
Also it should be easy enough to moderate the use of video techology. I.e limit the number of times it can be referred to in a game…. each coach can call for a video replay three times and no more!
About time but I would rather see it use for cheating and simulation
You can nearly tell by looking up that Barcaloni19 page on youtube that you would get 9/11 conspiracy clips in the suggested videos. Short memories, he seems to forget the second leg at Stamford Bridge only the year before.
All club have been stung over the years by bad decisions but when it’s costs a team a trophy/promotion or indeed regelation it can be hard to swallow .
If ever there was a club that benefited from extremely dubious refereeing, Barcelona is it.
The farce at Stamford Bridge
The Thiago Motta red card with Busquets peeking through his hands to see if he could stop rolling around yet
Van Persie’s second yellow for playing the ball after as the whistle was blown
And then from this tie, the Suarez non-red, the Iniesta non-red and the Torres sending off.
You lost all credibility when you said Torres was harshly sent off last week.
In that inter game the goal Barcelona got was actually offside so if they had video ref back then that goal wouldn’t have stood, and also the ridiculous motta red card would never have happened
They weren’t in the video so clearly didn’t happen.
3 for the manager is too many. Its been in hockey for a few years at the high level and only now is it really a very good system without issue of bias or unfair advantage. Currently, each team has one video refferral, which they keep if they are proven correct or in the case of “no decision possible”. When the team refers and they are mistaken, they lose the referral. Teams must refer immediately after the incident (within 3 seconds i think) and it has to be close to a goalscoring event (can’t be at midfield). It goes upstairs to a ref who avails of different camera replays. There are still instances when cameras don’t pick up the incident or it is unclear what happened although football games have so many cameras this might not be an issue. Also, there are still complaints to referees even after video referrals! In football there would be issues surrounding interpretation – handball/ball to hand for instance but these would simply have to be cleared up by rules committees. I think aswell that referees own referrals would be useful but in rugby these are taken too much in my opinion. The system works well, there is usually 3 or 4 refferals a game and they are swift and exciting. I think it would work. 6 a game would be hefty and would lead to a scenario whereby there would be a refferal by a winning defensive team over a free kick the last minute purely to waste time/stop momentum type of thing. This is not attractive to see.
Trust no one
Didn’t need last night to prove this. Just the last 30 years of diving, cheating, handballs etc etc etc