THERE ARE TWO changes to the Ireland team for Friday night’s U20 Six Nations tie at Musgrave Park against Wales as they seek to build on last week’s victory over Scotland.
Head coach Noel McNamara brings in Ulster winger Ben Moxham for his first appearance at this grade while Marcus Hannan comes into the front row.
Ethan McIlroy, who is out through injury, and Charlie Ward are the players to make way.
David McCann is named as captain again with Jack Crowley at out-half after his man-of-the-match showing in last Friday’s 38-26 success over Scotland.
#FutureIsGreen
— Irish Rugby (@IrishRugby) February 5, 2020
Head Coach Noel McNamara has made two changes to his Ireland Under-20 starting XV for Friday night's Six Nations clash against Wales at Irish Independent Park.
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“We got things started on a positive note on Friday night in Cork and now that we are up and running in the championship, we are looking forward to improving upon that performance,” said McNamara.
“This Friday night presents a new challenge against Wales. The players have worked hard during the week with the emphasis very much on ourselves and building towards this week’s game.”
Ireland (v Wales):
15. Oran McNulty
14. Ben Moxham
13. Dan Kelly
12. Hayden Hyde
11. Andrew Smith
10. Jack Crowley
9. Lewis Finlay
1. Marcus Hannan
2. Tom Stewart
3. Thomas Clarkson
4. Thomas Ahern
5. Brian Deeny
6. Sean O’Brien
7. Mark Hernan
8. David McCann (captain)
Replacements:
16. John McKee
17. Harry Noonan
18. Charlie Ward
19. Joe McCarthy
20. Cian Prendergast
21. Ben Murphy
22. Tim Corkery
234. Luis Faria
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Although there is mention of green 6 dropping a shoulder in to gold 10 after Earls attempts to ground the ball there is no mention of gold 10 firstly grabbing him back by the neck as he attempts to ground it. Should this not have led to a penalty try and also anther yellow card?
More great analysis , exvellent reading
I thought this ref wad really solid in the first half. Our have double the yellows in the context of them giving away double the penalties was ridiculous. And that we got a first infringement yellow to Healy when they were allowed multiple infringements on the line, and us getting a deliberate knock on penalty after they had deliberately knocked on twice was crazy.
I think on a different day POM would have had two pens and a yellow card given against him – it goes to show how much people overreact (either way) to one performance – the devil is in the detail.
Great analysis.
Would be good to get a summary as well at the end.
@Andrew Hurley: summary, there are definitely times where either side could feel slightly hard done by, but overall the match was reffed quite well. And refereeing in general was much better this week and much more consistent than last week across all games.
I like the tone of this article . The assessment given by your Ref was very fair. However the variance between Southern Hemisphere ref on Yellow/Red cards differs significantly from our Northern refs. Especially when leniency is given to the home teams during current tours. The red card given to the French 15 was probably a bit harsh and did seriously effect the result while a similar tackle by an Aussie barely scraped a yellow card. Consistency is all we want please
I was confused by this:
“When the ball leaves the hooker’s hands the lineout is over.”
Law 18, sections 36 and 37 seemed to disagree:
36. The lineout ends when:
The ball or a player in possession of the ball:
leaves the lineout; or
enters the area between the touchline and the five-metre line; or
goes beyond the 15-metre line.
A ruck or maul forms and all of the feet of all of the players in the ruck or maul move beyond the mark of touch.
The ball becomes unplayable.
37. Other than by moving to the receiver position if that position is empty, no lineout player may leave the lineout until it has ended. Sanction: Penalty.
The answer, I think, is in 28.d:
Leave the lineout so as to be in a position to receive the ball, provided they remain within 10 metres of the mark of touch and they keep moving until the lineout is over.
Get a life son , it’s over and done with, move on
@Tom Gorey: jesus, don’t click the bloody article if you don’t find this interesting, thereare billions of things you won’t find interesting. I find this level dissection fascinating, so do many others.
@Conor Paddington: Dont feed the trolls Conor. Plenty of football articles to bait.