Has he played much rugby in the second row dan, can’t remember ever seeing him there…
What do you make of Farley at connacht dan?
And he did, but he plays on the wrong side for what they are looking for doesn’t e? Apparently there is a difference between 4 and 5. Dan would know more about this.
[quote=“caoimhaoin”]Because they are the best. You were just looking for any old plonker to throw in there as long as he wasn’t from Munster.
How do ye share all the chips ye have around lads. Pathetic.[/quote]
Jaysus Kev
I’m really stitching up Munster by asking for Quinlan and Leamy on the bench amn’t I? Buckley’s just back from injury so that’s why he’s not there and Flannery will be starting- or should I look for Fogarty instead of Best as well…:rolleyes:
WBY
I might know the difference between 12 and 13, my expertise wouldnt stretch past the back row though!
Id imagine that one of the props needs more support from his lock than the other, thats just a guess really though.
Puke, he has gone in there a few times but maybe only started a couple of games in second row. I think he got what he was looking for in Cardiff in May, got married after, not sure the hunger is still there from what Iv seen.
[quote=“W.B. Yeats”]Jaysus Kev
I’m really stitching up Munster by asking for Quinlan and Leamy on the bench amn’t I? Buckley’s just back from injury so that’s why he’s not there and Flannery will be starting- or should I look for Fogarty instead of Best as well…:rolleyes:
WBY[/quote]
Dont be stupid, Frankie would be better option 
Farley is a decent club player but thats bout it Id say. And a decent player with the worst club in the Magners league.
Isn’t he injured as well???
[quote=“W.B. Yeats”]Jaysus Kev
I’m really stitching up Munster by asking for Quinlan and Leamy on the bench amn’t I? Buckley’s just back from injury so that’s why he’s not there and Flannery will be starting- or should I look for Fogarty instead of Best as well…:rolleyes:
WBY[/quote]
It wasn’t just for you.
Your looking for some nobody who can’t get a contract in Ireland to come and possibly play instead of O’ Driscoll. It was ridiculous.
Bandage - Anything you post about rugby seems obsessed with a Munster-Leinster battle. Are you just wumming to hide that you haven’t a clue what your on about or whats the story?
[quote=“caoimhaoin”]Because they are the best. You were just looking for any old plonker to throw in there as long as he wasn’t from Munster.
How do ye share all the chips ye have around lads. Pathetic.[/quote]
Mick O’Driscoll is a never has been. Do you remember the games he started a couple of years ago? He was inept. Malcolm O’Driscoll is a 91-cap legend of Irish rugby football and deserves some respect. Please take off your red tinted spectacles.
alright Bandage…calm down son…And its Mal o Kelly!
[quote=“caoimhaoin”]It wasn’t just for you.
Your looking for some nobody who can’t get a contract in Ireland to come and possibly play instead of O’ Driscoll. It was ridiculous.
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Browne left Connacht of his own choice to further his career. Northampton and Brive are certainly not a step down in the world.
You could be a world beater playing in Connacht and you would be behind the academy lads in Leinster and Munster.
WBY
Or the ruck inspector Mark 2
See, this slip up shows how seething I am. In case anyone missed my comment earlier, I’m seething about O’Kelly’s omission.
[quote=“caoimhaoin”]Because they are the best. You were just looking for any old plonker to throw in there as long as he wasn’t from Munster.
How do ye share all the chips ye have around lads. Pathetic.[/quote]
Do you eat paranoia porridge for breakfast every day?
The Irish 7’s Squad is going to get hammered. Don’t know what the IRFU is thinking, no Keatley and no Cave.
[quote=“W.B. Yeats”]Browne left Connacht of his own choice to further his career. Northampton and Brive are certainly not a step down in the world.
You could be a world beater playing in Connacht and you would be behind the academy lads in Leinster and Munster.
WBY[/quote]
I think you just made a few points for me there.
They are a step down from playing in Ireland, which is what would have happened if he was good enough for Ulster, Leinster or Munster.
Guys just calling for Hogan, Toner etc is just mad really, they have improved, but not that much.
As i said, i don’t think anybody outside of PO’C, DO’C or Cullen is really a player i would trust to take on top International 2nd rows.
Mac - Still hurting from yesterday?:rolleyes:
Whos Malcolm O Driscoll?
Just to point out, the end comes for us all at some point, there’s been many an Irish legend who’s had to be dropped in his day when the end has come. Mals legs are gone, its time for some young tyro’s. Ryan is the future. I’d have Mal in there before MOD, but neither of them will see bench anyway.
surely Kidney must keep one eye on WC2011, o’kelly is a lazy bastard who only ever did it when the mood took him, at 35 not the sort to have around looking 2.5 years ahead.
the others will still be around and whether they are good enough in 2.5 years time will depend on whether they are given opportunity between now and then to improve.
O’Driscoll set for replacements as O’Kelly faces drop
MICK O’DRISCOLL is set to replace Malcolm O’Kelly among the replacements in the only change from the 22 on duty against Italy when the Irish team and replacements for Saturday’s RBS Six Nations game against England is announced at lunch time today.
The omission of the 34-year-old O’Kelly from the 36-man squad, which was assembled on Sunday, looks, on the face of it, quite pointed, given he is the only player from the selected 22 for both of the opening wins over France and Italy not named in the enlarged squad.
While he fumbled a restart in Rome, O’Kelly’s four minutes at the Stadio Flaminio hardly merited such a dramatic demotion.
The Irish management have not explained the reasoning behind the lock’s omission, but apparently O’Kelly has not been banished to the wilderness, nor formally reprimanded. And his motivated, aerially-dominant, all-round performance for Leinster in their win away to the Scarlets on Saturday showed he still has plenty to offer.
That said, his treatment looks harsh, and in any event his hopes of reaching 100 caps have taken a serious, and perhaps irreparable jolt.
By dint of his two appearances as a replacement in the championship to date, O’Kelly has remained Ireland’s most capped player with 92 Tests, after John Hayes had twice drawn level with him at kick-off. Now Hayes looks certain to remain level with him when he wins his 92nd cap against England in what will also be, remarkably, a 47th championship start in succession for the Bruff prop.
O’Driscoll may well have been included in the 22 before now but for the shoulder injury which has limited his game time of late. But, having come through 80 minutes for Munster in their bonus point win over Edinburgh at Musgrave Park on Saturday evening, he looks best placed for a promotion to the bench.
By contrast, of the other two locks called up to the enlarged squad, Bob Casey was rested from yesterday’s training session due to the rigours of London Irish’s 20-20 comeback draw away to Bath on Saturday, while, after Ryan Caldwell’s recent injuries and sickness, the Ulster lock was confined to just 12 minutes action late on in their defeat away to the Dragons.
Shane Jennings was also rested from yesterday’s session after his highly industrious, try-scoring, 80-minute work-out for Leinster on Saturday.
All 15 of the players who started against France and Italy were rested from games last weekend, along with replacement hooker Rory Best, in part because Bernard Jackman is only returning from injury.
Plenty of the replacements in the Six Nations’ games had effective outings, notably Denis Leamy, but the likelihood of any changes to the starting XV would seem remote. The Irish management are clearly keen to cultivate a squad ethos, and probably would be of a mind to make a change here and there if only to underline that principle, yet there has been no compelling evidence to do so.
Declan Kidney and co would have been grateful that Gordon D’Arcy’s return to optimum fitness and form would have been accentuated by his 80-minute work-out for Leinster. And they would not have paid too much heed to the drop in intensity with the change from the Six Nations to the Magners League. There were one or two blips, but defensively D’Arcy was highly industrious if perhaps still not tackling with the ferocity of old, which is hardly surprising given the nature of his injury.
The call at inside centre is probably becoming tighter by the week, but the temptation to give Paddy Wallace (who has trained for the last week without any side-effects from the consecutive injuries around his eyes) another go and maintain the dynamic balance offered by D’Arcy’s impact off the bench is real.
The same is true of a highly experienced bench, in which case O’Driscoll for the unfortunate O’Kelly among the replacements may be the only change.
England attack coach Brian Smith yesterday claimed referee Jonathan Kaplan was influenced by pressure from the Wales management last Saturday week.
Kaplan sent Mike Tindall and Andy Goode to the sin-bin and awarded 14 penalties against England, which helped Wales secure a 23-15 victory at the Millennium Stadium.
“His (Kaplan’s) whole demeanour through that match, the way he addressed our team in the changing room beforehand – he had clearly had heaps of pressure put on by Wales,” said Smith.