England U20 vs Ireland U20

First topic message reminder :

England squad has been announced:

http://www.rfu.com/News/2012/June/NewsArticles/070612_20s_teamire.aspx

15 Tommy Bell (London Wasps)
14 Marland Yarde (London Irish)
13 Will Addison (Sale Sharks)
12 Ryan Mills (Gloucester Rugby) (C)
11 Charlie Walker (Harlequins)
10 Tom Heathcote (Bath Rugby)
9 Ben Spencer (Saracens)

1 Alec Hepburn (London Wasps)
2 Koree Britton (Gloucester Rugby)
3 Kyle Sinckler (Harlequins)
4 Dominic Barrow (Leeds Carnegie)
5 George Merrick (Harlequins)
6 David Sisi (London Irish)
7 Ben Nutley (Northampton Saints)
8 Jack Clifford (Harlequins)

Replacements
16 Max Crumpton (Saracens)
17 Luke Cowan-Dickie (Exeter Chiefs)
18 Ross Harrison (Sale Sharks)
19 Sam Twomey (Harlequins)
20 Chris Walker (Leeds Carnegie)
21 Dan Robson (Gloucester Rugby)
22 Sam Hill (Exeter Chiefs)
23 Ben Ransom (Saracens)


Ireland are unchanged from the side that beat S.A


15. Peter Nelson (Dungannon/Ulster)
14. Barry Daly (UCD/Leinster)
13. Chris Farrell (Dungannon/Ulster)
12. Foster Horan (Lansdowne/Leinster)
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. Conor Gilsenan (UCD/Mullingar/Leinster)
8. Jack Conan (Old Belvedere/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. Shane Buckley (Garryowen/Munster)
21. Luke McGrath (UCD/Leinster)
22. Jack Carty (Buccaneers/Connacht)
23. Stuart Olding (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster)

Good kick 3-0 england.

3-0, pen England.

Pitch is dreadful

Holy god that pitch is awful. Ireland slipping off tackles and England look very strong

Poor kick from hanrahan

JJ misses a penalty - kick much like his second on Monday, but this time it didn't go over.

This isn't going to be a pretty game...

Try for JJ!!!!

TRY JJ

3-5

Great run by Daly to set it up.

Better kick this JJ - well done lad

Hanrahan did NOT go to the same school as BOD in spite of what the commentator said

England are trying to play too much. Need to just keep pushing them back into the corners.

Yellow for Addison. Dangerous tackle

Harsh yellow that!

Very harsh. Guy's upper body didn't go past horizontal.

Looked like a fine tackle to me. The legs were in the air but he landed on his lower back. Poor decision.

Both sides already attacked more than we saw in first game.

Addison YCed for tip tackle. Looked worse at full speed than it did slow mo where the body was always horizontal.

Will be tough for england.

English lineout is not going well

LondonTiger wrote:Both sides already attacked more than we saw in first game.

Addison YCed for tip tackle. Looked worse at full speed than it did slow mo where the body was always horizontal.

Will be tough for england.

That's always the problem isn't it; ref gets one look at it at full speed; we get to see the slomo and then criticise the ref!

dumb penalty to concede by Irish hooker

timhen wrote:English lineout is not going well

Anothe rlost line out, could cost us a try

Oh dear 2nd YC coming

Ireland you MUST take advantage of this YC

lovely break by Marmion. Leads to another yellow

Another yellow? This is ridiculous!

If we don't do something quick, we are being knocked out today.

Mon Ireland!
Believe!

Electric break from the Irish 9.

England down to 13

Ouch 13 men, come on you white orcs...

England steal scrum and shocking decision by the ref to give Ireland the reset. Shocking.

C'mon ref! Great scrum from England, we get the ball and he resets it!

Not bad scrum for England

Must score from this.

England down to 13 why~?

Yes!

Decent scrum form Ireland. Thought they would be at a disadvantage there.
Try for marmion 12-3

what's the score?

Good try. bad organisation by England on the blindside.

Do like these commentators, seem to know their stuff and good and impartial.

Try ireland

Marmion finishes what he started

Ireland can kill this game off with a third try if they can do it quickly.

Take back what I said earlier. I think Ireland could get the 4 tries here!

Clever 8 - 9 move

The Irish 9 scores the try he helped create.

Connacht wont hold on to him for long by the look of it.

ChequeredJersey wrote:what's the score?

12-3 Ireland, 2 english lads in the sin bin, 25 mins gone.

That was unlucky, getting caught up with TV cable

Morgannwg wrote:Take back what I said earlier. I think Ireland could get the 4 tries here!

Even with 2 TBPs Ireland will be behind Wales in the seedings. (probably due to fewer overall tries)

What is he doing with these restarts? He's giving his team mates no chance.

Great kick JJ. Could do with another try. Eng back to 14.

Hanrahan playing a very clever game

JJ is ROG Mk II.

LondonTiger wrote:

Morgannwg wrote:Take back what I said earlier. I think Ireland could get the 4 tries here!

Even with 2 TBPs Ireland will be behind Wales in the seedings. (probably due to fewer overall tries)

Really? But Ireland have won all there games so far, Wales have 1BP so far - If Ireland get one here they will be level?

Ireland will also have to pick a complete different team v Italy due to the rules demanding every player start one game.