HEAD COACH NEIL Doak has named his Ireland Men’s U20s Match Day Squad for Saturday’s U20 Six Nations clash against Scotland in Edinburgh (Kick-off 7.45pm).
Ireland U20s travel to the Hive Stadium for their Round 2 encounter on Saturday night, with Éanna McCarthy once again set to lead the team from the back row.
Daniel Green, Charlie Molony and Ciarán Mangan are named in the Ireland back three, with Connor Fahy partnering Gene O’Leary Kareem in midfield. There’s an unchanged half-back pairing as Clark Logan and Sam Wisniewski start at scrum-half and out-half respectively.
In the pack, Billy Bohan, Henry Walker and Alex Mullan start in the front row, with Mahon Ronan and Billy Corrigan selected in the engine room again.
Michael Foy starts at blindside flanker, Bobby Power is at openside and captain McCarthy completes the starting team at number eight.
On the bench, Connor Magee, Paddy Moore, Tom McAllister, David Walsh and Oisin Minogue provide the forward replacements, with backs Will Wootton, Dylan Hicks and Eoghan Smyth completing Ireland’s Match Day 23.
Saturday’s match is live on RTÉ2.
Ireland Men’s U20s:
- 15. Daniel Green (Queen’s University Belfast RFC/Ulster)
- 14. Charlie Molony (UCD RFC/Leinster)
- 13. Gene O’Leary Kareem (UCC RFC/Munster)
- 12. Connor Fahy (Clontarf FC/Leinster)
- 11. Ciarán Mangan (Blackrock College RFC/Leinster)
- 10. Sam Wisniewski (Old Belvedere RFC/Leinster)
- 9. Clark Logan (Queen’s University Belfast RFC/Ulster)
- 1. Billy Bohan (Galway Corinthians RFC/Connacht)
- 2. Henry Walker (Queen’s University Belfast RFC/Ulster)
- 3. Alex Mullan (Blackrock College RFC/Leinster)
- 4. Mahon Ronan (Old Wesley RFC/Leinster)
- 5. Billy Corrigan (Old Wesley RFC/Leinster)
- 6. Michael Foy (UCC RFC/Munster)
- 7. Bobby Power (Galwegians RFC/Connacht)
- 8. Éanna McCarthy (Galwegians RFC/Connacht)(capt)
Replacements:
- 16. Connor Magee (Banbridge RFC/Ulster)
- 17. Paddy Moore (Blackrock College RFC/Leinster)
- 18. Tom McAllister (Ballynahinch RFC/Ulster)
- 19. David Walsh (Terenure College RFC/Leinster)
- 20. Oisin Minogue (Shannon RFC/Munster)
- 21. Will Wootton (Sale Sharks/IQ Rugby)
- 22. Dylan Hicks (Garryowen FC/Munster)
- 23. Eoghan Smyth (Cork Constitution FC/Munster).
A ref and 2 umpires unable to spot Walsh spinning 4 times without a hop of a ball for the second goal. Shambolic officiating that’s basic rules they’re missing and it’s looking like it’s killed the tie.
Ah stop jack. Take off those blinkers.. Kerry were up by seven at the time… Game was gone from Roscommon at that stage… Roscommon are just out of their depth….
Blinkers? When when have Mayo and Ros got on? And I bet you thought the same in Killarney. There’s a stiff breeze at Roscommon’s back but the second goal standing out it beyond then whereas 4-5 down they had a chance.
They were up by 5 mate. 1-6 0-4. Should have been disallowed. Sure they want the dream final after all
Well eamon, at least the rossies can keep on dreaming… Just not even nearly good enough to mix it with the big boys…
Jaysus, Roscommon are pi$$ poor…
Com’n Kerry
I’d say most neutrals would want Roscommon to win today or in fact anyone apart from Kerry people
I’d rather a strong Kerry as they have a chance of running the Dubs close at the end of the year, Roscommon don’t have that chance
Hon the Kingdom
Rossie Keeper is a lucky man to escape a black card.
Nothing new with Kerry getting soft frees .
of course ye ever get soft frees
never even
Ref is a joke so far some really soft frees to kerry!!
Such as? Funny how the frees are soft when Kerry are getting them
Very soft frees on both sides.
Big game for both. Will go a long way in preparation for the championship
Walsh took 10 steps before he scored the 2nd goal. Good man ref.
Darren o Sullivan was dragged down before he scored his goal and there should have been a black card for the Roscommon keeper, or did you miss that?
Walsh took too many step, should have been a free out alright. Roscommon keeper should have seen black. He’s giving the same ‘soft’ frees to both teams for fairly minor pulling and dragging but he’s being consistent. Kerry getting more of them because they are the ones running at roscommon from inside the 40. Kerry by far the better team with or without Walsh’s goal
Ros’s first time out in Croker against a top 3 team and they went man to man. madness. McStay should know better he’s railed Mayo for exposing our full back line for years, easy be a hurler on the ditch however.
kerry are just reaffirming they are the second best team in the country.
Jaysus, kerry playing fierce dirty, foul, foul, foul, #
Nice boys get nice girls, nice boys don’t won’t all Ireland’s …. Think they’re up by 10pts…. Foul foul foul must be the way to go
Arrah if you took the goals outta it….
Roscommon are suffering from stage fright or just no good?but on this form kerry will hammer Dublin in the final!!.
I hope Donegal have more ambition up front today, lady game against Dublin was horrible. They had been very adventurous in the 3 games they won then reverted back to type. I know they can’t open up against Dublin as they might be in danger of taking a hammering. Still, I’d like to see them come out of their shell a bit. Good luck to all team involved.
How are they doing that paul???