Ireland vs USA Discussion Thread

[MMC]

First topic message reminder :

With the team announcements just around the corner I will post the teams here once they've been named. This will help us to keep all the discussion to one thread.

In the meantime, this is the place to be for team news, speculation, score predictions, and just about anything else related to the game that people want to talk about.

Forget August, forget Australia the week after, forget about the future of Ireland after the world cup. Our World Cup starts right here.

COME ON IRELAND!!

Ireland team to face USA:

15 - Geordan Murphy (Leicester Tigers)
14 - Tommy Bowe (Ospreys) *
13 - Brian O'Driscoll (UCD/Leinster) (capt)
12 - Gordon D'Arcy (Lansdowne/Leinster)
11 - Keith Earls (Young Munster/Munster) *
10 - Jonathan Sexton (St. Mary's College/Leinster) *
9 - Conor Murray (Garryowen/Munster) *
1 - Tom Court (Malone/Ulster) *
2 - Rory Best (Banbridge/Ulster)
3 - Mike Ross (Clontarf/Leinster) *
4 - Donncha O'Callaghan (Cork Constitution/Munster)
5 - Paul O'Connell (Young Munster/Munster)
6 - Stephen Ferris (Dungannon/Ulster) *
7 - Shane Jennings (St. Mary's College/Leinster) *
8 - Jamie Heaslip (Naas/Leinster) *

Replacements:

16 - Jerry Flannery (Shannon/Munster)
17 - Tony Buckley (Sale Sharks)*
18 - Donnacha Ryan (Shannon/Munster)*
19 - Denis Leamy (Cork Constitution/Munster)
20 - Eoin Reddan (Lansdowne/Leinster)
21 - Ronan O'Gara (Cork Constitution/Munster)
22 - Andrew Trimble (Ballymena/Ulster)


USA Team: B Scully; T Ngwenya, P Emerick, A Suniula, J Paterson; R Suniula, M Petri; M MacDonald, P Thiel, S Pittman, J van der Giessen, H Smith, L Stanfill, T Clever (capt), N Johnson.

Replacements: C Biller, M Moeakiola, S LaValla, P Danahy, T Usasz, N Malifa, C Hawley.

[MMC]

Well this thread had died on it’s arrse.

How many yanks do you think will be watching this game given that it’s on at 2am on the east coast and 11pm on the west coast?

I’d say 11.

OK I'm confused. Surely it's on in the afternoon on sunday in the states as they are 5-7 hrs behind us?

If it's on at 7am here then it'll be on at 12 midnight on the west coast and 2am on the east coast. Simples.

[doctor_grey]

Nah, I think a number of of Americans will be watching. American Rugby types are a pretty die-hard bunch. Early or late don't confront them (as long as they get their rent money by next Friday).

[Thomond]

Mickado,the gooch is going to get you. By "get" I mean he is going to crawl into the hill and flash his face and the sight of it will take out half the hill. That wil silence the crowd seeing that ugly face.

[rodders]

http://uk.ask.com/videos/watch-video/irish-rugby-football-union-song-ireland-call/bZRb9wsSi6lScgzlOdUrJQ?host=UK

[Irish Curry]

[quote="doctor_grey"]Nah, I think a number of of Americans will be watching. American Rugby types are a pretty die-hard bunch. Early or late don't confront them (as long as they get their rent money by next Friday).[/quote]

Is there such thing as an american rugby type?? 9/11s 10 years on would be a serious distraction too for them.

[Mickado]

Isn't the NFL season starting tomorrow too. A lot of distractions for the American public...

[MMC]

Team was announced last night:

15 - Geordan Murphy (Leicester Tigers)
14 - Tommy Bowe (Ospreys) *
13 - Brian O'Driscoll (UCD/Leinster) (capt)
12 - Gordon D'Arcy (Lansdowne/Leinster)
11 - Keith Earls (Young Munster/Munster) *
10 - Jonathan Sexton (St. Mary's College/Leinster) *
9 - Conor Murray (Garryowen/Munster) *
1 - Tom Court (Malone/Ulster) *
2 - Rory Best (Banbridge/Ulster)
3 - Mike Ross (Clontarf/Leinster) *
4 - Donncha O'Callaghan (Cork Constitution/Munster)
5 - Paul O'Connell (Young Munster/Munster)
6 - Stephen Ferris (Dungannon/Ulster) *
7 - Shane Jennings (St. Mary's College/Leinster) *
8 - Jamie Heaslip (Naas/Leinster) *

Replacements:

16 - Jerry Flannery (Shannon/Munster)
17 - Tony Buckley (Sale Sharks)*
18 - Donnacha Ryan (Shannon/Munster)*
19 - Denis Leamy (Cork Constitution/Munster)
20 - Eoin Reddan (Lansdowne/Leinster)
21 - Ronan O'Gara (Cork Constitution/Munster)
22 - Andrew Trimble (Ballymena/Ulster)

[beshocked]

USA's best player Chris Wyles is out with an ankle injury. Big blow for them.


http://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/worldcup/2011/0909/usa_ireland_rwc.html


Team: B Scully; T Ngwenya, P Emerick, A Suniula, J Paterson; R Suniula, M Petri; M MacDonald, P Thiel, S Pittman, J van der Giessen, H Smith, L Stanfill, T Clever (capt), N Johnson.

Replacements: C Biller, M Moeakiola, S LaValla, P Danahy, T Usasz, N Malifa, C Hawley.

[MMC]

Ouch, that's not good for USA.

That brings the number of players in that team that I'm familiar with to 5. On paper at least it looks like a big mismatch between our guys and theirs. Time will tell though.

p.s. NZ - Tonga is entertaining so far.

[Taylorman]

I agree rodders. World cup is different and in terms of the actual seedings im expecting a few upsets. Not this match perhaps but whover thought 50+ here i think is a little wild.
Pacific cup teams especially are the up and comers in world rugby and between them will cause problems.
New plymouth this one?
Oddly in all my years in nz Ive never been there.
7 Live test matches this weekend!
what a bumma!

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