JWC: Irish and Baby Bok squads announced.

The Irish and Baby Bok teams have been announced.

Irish team:

15. Peter Nelson (Dungannon/Ulster)
14. Barry Daly (UCD/Leinster)
13. Foster Horan (Lansdowne/Leinster)
12. Chris Farrell (Dungannon/Ulster)
11. Sam Coghlan Murray (UCD/Leinster)
10. JJ Hanrahan (UL Bohemians/Munster) *
9. Kieran Marmion (Corinthians/Connacht) *
1. Des Merrey (Clontarf/Leinster)
2. Niall Scannell (Dolphin/Munster) (capt)
3. Tadhg Furlong (Clontarf/Leinster) *
4. Tadhg Beirne (Lansdowne/Leinster)
5. Iain Henderson (Queen's University/Ulster) *
6. Jordan Coghlan (UCD/Leinster)
7. Jack Conan (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
8. Conor Gilsenan (UCD/Mullingar/Leinster)

Replacements:

16. James Rael (Garryowen/Munster)
17. Peter Reilly (Lansdowne/Leinster)
18. Jake Cawley (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
19. Alan O'Connor (UCD/Leinster)
20. Aaron Conneely (Corinthians/Connacht) *
21. Luke McGrath (UCD/Leinster)
22. Jack Carty (Buccaneers/Connacht)
23. Mikey Sherlock (Clontarf/Leinster)

Baby Boks:

15. Dillyn Leyds (DHL Western Province)
14. Paul Jordaan (KZN)
13. Pat Howard (DHL Western Province)
12. Jan Serfontein (Vodacom Blue Bulls)
11. Raymond Rhule (Toyota Free State)
10. Tony Jantjies (Vodacom Blue Bulls)
9. Abrie Griesel (Vodacom Blue Bulls)
8. Fabian Booysen (MTN Golden Lions)
7. Wiaan Liebenberg (Vodacom Blue Bulls, captain)
6. Shaun Adendorff (Vodacom Blue Bulls)
5. Pieter Steph du Toit (KZN)
4. Paul Willemse (MTN Golden Lions)
3. Allan Dell (KZN)
2. Mark Pretorius (MTN Golden Lions)
1. Steven Kitshoff (DHL Western Province)

Reserves:
16. Jason Thomas (Vodacom Blue Bulls)
17. Oliver Kebble (DHL Western Province)
18. Ruan Botha (MTN Golden Lions)
19. Braam Steyn (KZN)
20. Vian van der Watt (MTN Golden Lions)
21. Handrè Pollard (DHL Western Province)
22. Tshotsho Mbovane (DHL Western Province)
23. Maks van Dyk (KZN)



The game is on Monday at 5.45 Irish time, I think its live on TG4 and possibly Sky Sports.

Valjester, if you don't mind I can add the baby boks to your OP, and then we just change the title to JWC: Irish and Bok squads announced?

Val - is that a mistake in the team? Conan at 7, Gilsenan at 8? Last season it was the other way round. Conan was brilliant at 8.

biltongbek wrote:Valjester, if you don't mind I can add the baby boks to your OP, and then we just change the title to JWC: Irish and Bok squads announced?

Yeah go ahead, I was just going to do it.

Cool.

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Val - is that a mistake in the team? Conan at 7, Gilsenan at 8? Last season it was the other way round. Conan was brilliant at 8.

Its copied directly from the IRFU.

Yeah I thought that, just wondering if it was them that have listed it wrongly. I guess we shall see soon enough.

Who is the captain?

JJ Hanrahan at 10. Rog's replacement at Munster!

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Who is the captain?

Scannell.

What does the * beside some players mean?Is it first appearances at a Junior WC.

The Boks will win this by about 20-30 points I'd say. Thats a weak enough Irish team and Horan and Daly at 13 and 14 are very poor.
The Boks are very strong, I think five of their players have Super Rugby experience, thankfully Goosen is out or it would be worse, even
if it is a shame that we won't get to see him play.

asoreleftshoulder wrote:What does the * beside some players mean?Is it first appearances at a Junior WC.

I just copied it from the Irfu, I think its the players who played in last years JWC.

Yes we will miss him dearly.

Ireland have a few really exciting players. South Africa, on the other hand, have a really exciting team.

Do we know if tg4 are showin this beaut?

I am gonig to watch it this afternoon, if you guys want, I'll give you running commentary.

pete (buachaill on eirne) wrote:Do we know if tg4 are showin this beaut?

They are indeed Pete!

Rory_Gallagher wrote:

pete (buachaill on eirne) wrote:Do we know if tg4 are showin this beaut?

They are indeed Pete!

Laoch Rory!
Rugbai as Gaeilge......ah nil aon rud nios fearr! bainfidh me taitneamh as sin.

Bainfidh mé an sult as an cluiche anocht. Ceapaim go dtugann TG4 clúdach den scoth dúinn. Déanann siad anailís maith i mo thuairim. Tá na cluiche Éireannach ag TG4, ní doigh liom go bhfuil aon cluiche eile acu.




(Looking forward to the game. TG4 give great coverage to us. They do good analysis. They have the Irish games, they don't have other ones.)


This will help those who don't speak Irish. http://www.tg4.ie/en/programmes/rugby-on-tg4/dictionary.html

Hey is this on tonight? ... feic no way will I remember to watch this!

17:45 kick off Rodders, might be able to get it up on the TG4 player if you can't watch it tonight.

Aye hopefully I'll remember to watch it though....

pete (buachaill on eirne) wrote:

Rory_Gallagher wrote:

pete (buachaill on eirne) wrote:Do we know if tg4 are showin this beaut?

They are indeed Pete!

Laoch Rory!
Rugbai as Gaeilge......ah nil aon rud nios fearr! bainfidh me taitneamh as sin.

And will we have the delectable Maire T as our hostess?? So long since learnt Irish I haven't a clue what the lass says but she sure can talk!

Apparently we will, TG4 have a knack for uneartihng Connacht lovelies, from the Seoiges, to Ní Bheoláin. TG4 do a good job.

Why is McGrath not starting? I thought he was one of your best forwards, I expect SA to be strong up front.

Biltong, is the whole tournament taking place in the Cape?

Luke McGrath is a scrumhalf. And he should be starting!

This is going to be an incredibly tough ask for Ireland- there are a few guys who I hope can shine like Henderson, Furlong, Hanrahan and Nelson but South Africa are probably too strong across the board.

Are you watching it live Notch?

Yes Morgan, there are two venues, Stellenbosch university and the University of Western Cape, Belville.

I just hope we dont get hammered...

I don't think you should worry about that, we were very poor last year. Not much hope for this year.

Yes, got a stream.

Our big loss is that Jackson is being held back for next season. Sky Sports are quite poor. They make the point that Mike Ruddock has unfettered access to his players unlike his South African counterpart, yet South Africa have several Super Rugby players who have been released whereas Ulster have been allowed to withdraw the Teams Captain and star outhalf?!

Seems like they got that one the complete wrong way round. I agree with the withdrawl of Jackson. At the time of writing, Ulster have him and only him as an outhalf for next year and although a backup is due to be signed, he will be playing about 25-30 games next year! He needs a full pre-season.

Hate hate HATE that awful karaoke version of Irelands Call

biltongbek wrote:I don't think you should worry about that, we were very poor last year. Not much hope for this year.

Your team is a lot stronger than ours, the spread is at 22 points and I'd expect you to beat it.

I apologise to both teams in advance

Notch wrote:Hate hate HATE that awful karaoke version of Irelands Call

It is absolutely appalling. We really need to fix it.

Also I hear that we have taken NOC back from Connacht for next season.

PenfroPete wrote:I apologise to both teams in advance

Those SA lads look VERY big (and it's not just the camera angle)

Indeed, rumoured to have been a done deal for a while. Hopefully we finalise our squad this week. And get a first press conference from our new coach who arrived on Friday.

Were is shane layden?

LeinsterFan4life wrote:Were is shane layden?

Injured, which is unfortunate because although its great to have Nelson back, with Layden and Jackson gone we have to play Horan and Daly who are both sh**e.

Looks like the baby boks have been watching Saracens - textbook periscope and box kick there

LondonTiger wrote:Looks like the baby boks have been watching Saracens - textbook periscope and box kick there

The Bulls have been doing it this season as well, its f**king awful but thankfully will be gone for next season.

Hanrahan mixing the good with the bad so far.

Oh, these kicks out on the full are going to kill us if we don't cut them out!

Hanrahan letting the nerves take over a bit. Hope he can show his true class as the game goes on.

Notch wrote:Oh, these kicks out on the full are going to kill us if we don't cut them out!

Yep, we also need Marmion to sort his passing out. Hanrahan is having to jump for every pass and that doesn't help him get the backline moving.

Then again, he has the right idea. Some of his support haven't timed the runs very well.

Why isn't McGrath starting? He is one of the best players in that squad.

Ireland is competing very well in the tight exchanges, the Boks need to go wide.