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Ireland Depth Chart

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 1:44 pm
by WeeWorld
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https://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/ ... 73637.html

Three deep in every position but with three players double jobbing, so 42 players total.

It's no wonder Ireland were playing in blue last saturday.

Re: Ireland Depth Chart

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 2:07 pm
by Dave
Must be a pisstake?

Re: Ireland Depth Chart

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 2:22 pm
by Jetstream
Great to see Fergus McFadden featuring but why is he covering only one position? Fergus can play anywhere.

Re: Ireland Depth Chart

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 3:41 pm
by OneMore
Jetstream wrote:Great to see Fergus McFadden featuring but why is he covering only one position? Fergus can play anywhere.
Truth, what a player.

Re: Ireland Depth Chart

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 4:47 pm
by Bart S
Depth in irish rugby is clearly better than before and the strongest that i can remember.

Carberry and Byrne COULD become decent 10’s (i think Byrne could turn out to be pretty good in a couple of years) but the fitness of Jonny Sextn is absolutely key to Ireland. Not only is he a top class player but there is no-one else who has consistently delivered at 10 at eurooean or international level.

With Sexton playing as well as he is I am sure he would have been Ireland’s first choice 10, but from an ireland point of view, having another 2 years of paddy jackson’s development for the world cup and pushing Sexton would have been ideal.

Carbery and Byrne are the next best options but neither has the experience nor quality (at least yet) at 10 that PJ has.

Losing Sexton would be a big blow to Ireland regardless butat least with PJ there it would have softened it to some extent.

Re: Ireland Depth Chart

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 8:45 pm
by WeeWorld
Carbery will get a lot of heineken cup time over the next 2 months plus a couple of derbies.
Then it's up to Joe to give him some decent time in the 6N including as a starter in the Italy game, maybe?

Re: Ireland Depth Chart

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 10:53 pm
by big mervyn
Dave wrote:Must be a pisstake?
Finding the depth chart hard to fathom?

Re: Ireland Depth Chart

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:00 pm
by Dave
big mervyn wrote:
Dave wrote:Must be a pisstake?
Finding the depth chart hard to fathom?
Think about all the subs

Re: Ireland Depth Chart

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:51 pm
by BaggyTrousers
Pity someone wouldn’t deliver a depth charge to the FIRFUCs instead.

Re: Ireland Depth Chart

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2018 10:02 am
by Jackie Brown
No room for Cooney

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Re: Ireland Depth Chart

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2018 1:39 pm
by BaggyTrousers
Jackie Brown wrote:No room for Cooney

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Good news. :thumleft:

Re: Ireland Depth Chart

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:37 pm
by rumncoke
There is a lot of Rugby between now and the World Cup and the near certainty that at least 3 will pick up a reasonably serious injury .

And much as the press (southern ) love Carberry there are a number of factors which put ?s at the depth chart as written .

Firstly the World Cup squad is limited in number and therefore selection is based on the need for a23 selection rather than position only .

Secondly Joe because of the depth is unlikely to follow the example of previous coaches and expect the core of his squad to play in every game .

Thus in his selection may include a couple utility players .

There are 4 available backs Henshaw ,Larmour ,Addison and Carberry ; the first will
not be selected on that basis but as a centre .


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Re: Ireland Depth Chart

Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 3:17 pm
by Dublin4
With his versatility, the return of Fergus McFadden from injury can't come soon enough.

Re: Ireland Depth Chart

Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 7:49 pm
by UlsterNo9
Dublin4 wrote:With his versatility, the return of Fergus McFadden from injury can't come soon enough.
A straight out shoot out between him and Addison for utility back :shock: :shock:

Re: Ireland Depth Chart

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 5:43 pm
by Columbo
Just listening to Murray Kinsella's podcast there, interestingly he said that Schmidt singled out Eric O'Sullivan as 'one to watch in 2019'... He tends not to mention names by accident