Think you'd be chancing your arm resting all that lot! Think you might need a few on the bench just in case the b team are in the shit.
2 of them have to be on the bench anyway. Leave Murray on the bench behind break in emergency glass.
As we saw with the Japanese blowing out of their holes after 50 minutes against a, quite frankly, average Scotland, these quick turnarounds are very tough on the weaker nations. The Ireland second team is quite strong, many of them such as Toner, Ryan, Henry, Murphy, Bowe, Zebo etc have been heavily involved at first team level.
Should be a hometown atmosphere and they don't get more hometown ref than Joubert. He doesn't want to be risking crowd trouble after all!?!?
I agree. Ireland imho won 6n cos of their bench. But who do you play at half back. Surely time to rest Murray and sexton.
I think Reddan and Wee Paddy should be good enough. The likes of Shane Horgan have only just stopped their ridiculous campaign to have Reddan start ahead of Murray so he should be OK!?!? I have a lot of time for Jackson and feel that he is unfortunate in that he is judged on his performances outside Reddan relative to Sexton's outside Murray. Here is my team
And all of them with plenty to play for. Would like to see how Furlong gets on against some gnarly old scrummagers.
Pom is carrying a bit of a knock hence Hendo at six, but the first choice back five we saw against Canada has a great balance to it IMHO. But, apart from Hendo, Healy and Earls/ Fitz, that team is made up of second choice. Personally I would have Zebo on the left wing and Earls on the right in the first team because they are the two quickest lads in the squad but Daverage has looked sharp even if he doesn't have their top end gas. When you think there are lads like Denis Buckley, Killer, James Cronin, Herring, Dave Foley, Tuohy, McCarthy, Conan, TOD(injured admittedly), Diack, Trimble, McCloskey etc who can't even make the squad and CJ Stander becomes IQed in a couple of weeks, the strength in depth of Irish rugby is unbelievable really.
Still might with poor Wee Paddy judged, forever and a day, by his efforts outside him. I would love to see the Viscount really stamp his authority on a game from the outset, however. He doesn't exactly appear to be lacking in confidence so you'd hope he can make a good impression against Romania.
The Viscount's passes sometimes have the sensitivity and sympathy of a concentration camp guard.
