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Farrell includes Leinster sensation in 35-man Ireland squad

02 Mar 2020

Ireland v Scotland – Guinness Six Nations – Aviva Stadium

Andy Farrell has called up another young Leinster star to his 35-man Ireland squad.

With Ireland’s Six Nations game against Italy, originally due to be played in Dublin this Saturday, postponed in a bid to halt the spread of the coronavirus, Farrell’s squad will train this week at the IRFU’s High Performance Centre in preparation for their round five fixture against France in Paris on Saturday 14th March.

A squad of 35 have been assembled for the training camp, with Connacht pair Ultan Dillane and Dave Heffernan joining the group later on Monday having played for Connacht in Port Elizabeth on Sunday in the Guinness PRO14.

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And there is also a place in the squad for Leinster sensation Ryan Baird, who marked his second start for the province with a stunning hat-trick in Friday;s 55-19 thrashing of Glasgow Warriors.

The 20-year-old, who previously trained with the squad in their pre-Six Nations camp in Portugal in late January, will join the group for the early part of the training camp.

Ireland squad for training camp:

Backs: (15)
Bundee Aki (Galwegians/Connacht) 26 caps
Billy Burns (Ulster) 0 caps
Ross Byrne (UCD/Leinster) 6 caps
Andrew Conway (Garryowen/Munster) 21 caps
John Cooney (Terenure College/Ulster) 11 caps
Keith Earls (Young Munster/Munster) 84 caps
Chris Farrell (Young Munster/Munster) 9 caps
Robbie Henshaw (Buccaneers/Leinster) 43 caps
Dave Kearney (Lansdowne/Leinster) 19 caps
Jordan Larmour (St Mary’s College/Leinster) 24 caps
Stuart McCloskey (Bangor/Ulster) 3 caps
Luke McGrath (UCD/Leinster) 19 caps
Conor Murray (Garryowen/Munster) 81 caps
Jonathan Sexton (St Marys College/Leinster) 91 caps
Jacob Stockdale (Lurgan/Ulster) 28 caps

Forwards: (20)
Ryan Baird (Dublin University/Leinster) 0 caps
Will Connors (UCD/Leinster) 0 caps
Max Deegan (Lansdowne/Leinster) 1 cap
Ultan Dillane (Corinthians/Connacht) 15 caps
Caelan Doris (St Mary’s College/Leinster) 2 caps
Tadhg Furlong (Clontarf/Leinster) 44 caps
Dave Heffernan (Buccaneers/Connacht) 1 cap
Iain Henderson (Academy/Ulster) 55 caps
Rob Herring (Ballynahinch/Ulster) 11 caps
Ronan Kelleher (Lansdowne/Leinster) 3 caps
Dave Kilcoyne (UL Bohemians/Munster) 39 caps
Jack McGrath (St Mary’s College/Ulster) 56 caps
Jack O’Donoghue (UL Bohemians/Munster) 2 caps
Peter O’Mahony (Cork Constitution/Munster) 67 caps
Tom O’Toole (Banbridge/Ulster) 0 caps
Andrew Porter (UCD/Leinster) 26 caps
James Ryan (UCD/Leinster) 26 caps
CJ Stander (Shannon/Munster) 41 caps
Devin Toner (Lansdowne/Leinster) 70 caps
Josh van der Flier (UCD/Leinster) 26 caps

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IkeaBoy 19 minutes ago

Competing interests and rotated squads: What the 'player welfare summer' is really telling us

Very good question. I think we may see that at some point with lower body trauma.

I help coach an U-12 team. The IRFU had set up tackle schools all around the place last summer to help coach good habits in the kids around the new tackle heights.

One of our young lads tackled low in the first game of the season. His first contact of the match. He got the other lads knee and knocked himself clean out.

There are risks high and low.

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JW 20 minutes ago

Why New Zealand learned more from their July series than France

HAHAHAHA he certainly isn’t 123 kilos LOL

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JW 21 minutes ago

Why New Zealand learned more from their July series than France

I’m not sure what FFR would do without those grants. There financials are a mystery though, for instance the below also said NZ spent 42mil $ on the community game in 23’, does the FFR do that sort of thing?

From WRs 21’ financials that showed up on google I see they spent

Tournaments - 17m pound

Grants 13mil

Admin expenses of 9mil

Wages of 13m

Improving and marketing the game 16m

The previous year they gave out nearly 100mil point in grants (from 19’ WC no doubt).

Im not a financial guy, but I’d assume that largest area would be direct investment in those countries pros scenes, and that second largest area have a portion on rugby initiatives in those T2 countries. Nearly 50mil net loss for the year btw, from having 100m reserves. You still think the Top 14 contributes more than that to T2 nations?

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Cantab 31 minutes ago

The stat in which the Springboks outperformed everyone fivefold in July

Nothing like red/yellow cards to ruin a good contest. Let's hope there aren't any. NZ are overdue for a couple of wins over the old foe.

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IkeaBoy 35 minutes ago

Competing interests and rotated squads: What the 'player welfare summer' is really telling us

Totally. I thought that was the biggest advantage but the will just never seemed to be there. Maybe it's different if their hand is forced.

I'm not saying you wouldn't get some ugly scorelines early in that type of comp, you could imagine Japan getting caught cold in their first game and getting banjaxed. It would bed in though.

Seems to be a huge fan base in Japan and the Fijian fans have always looked mental. Good mental.

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IkeaBoy 38 minutes ago

Competing interests and rotated squads: What the 'player welfare summer' is really telling us

Japan were joyful to watch in the 2015 RWC. World rugby rewards them with playing SA and SCO on a 4 day turn around.

They were probably the form team of the 2019 RWC by the end of the pools stage. Their running game was ridiculous.

They've dropped the ball since I think. They are now prioritising their league and the money streams. Eddie Jones hardly helps either.

Yeah Fiji have a lot to fight against. The day that team regularly becomes an 80 min team, the world order will change. They simply don't produce average athletes.

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AllyOz 43 minutes ago

Competing interests and rotated squads: What the 'player welfare summer' is really telling us

Does this slow the development in some key positions. I imagine it must be difficult for the strength based positions (locks and props particularly) to build up and maintain muscle strength and weight without a set rest period. I can remember as a (fairly low grade) player that it took a long time in pre-season to build 3 - 4 kg of muscle and I would generally lose that amount of weight (up to 5 kg) across the season. I am sure the fitness science and S & C blokes are a lot better in their prep than in my day and also that the players are a lot more dedicated than I was, but strength training generally requires and element of rest & recovery to be most effective.

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IkeaBoy 44 minutes ago

Competing interests and rotated squads: What the 'player welfare summer' is really telling us

Yeah they were in serious trouble at the time from what I read of it. Very, very dicey times.

I would only get on board with the RC changes if it genuinely brought Fiji, Samoa and Tonga into the light. I've doubts. Even the proposed Nations Cup seems purely to ring fence the world order of rugby.

I agree on Georgia but more for form. They missed their chance. It's peaked.

You could argue that by the time Italy finally joined they'd already peaked. They were a proper, serious outfit in the 90’s but by the time they joined their moment had passed.

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AllyOz 48 minutes ago

Competing interests and rotated squads: What the 'player welfare summer' is really telling us

Why do you think it is involvements Nick, rather than minutes. I thought teams could rest some of there bigger names by giving them bench time, just using them for 20 at the end or only 50 at the start? Or is this trying to take into account travel and training loads as well?

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IkeaBoy 49 minutes ago

Competing interests and rotated squads: What the 'player welfare summer' is really telling us

Agree completely with that. There are some cracking stadiums knocking around Europe. Plenty of modest 20k capacity ones that are well located in the cities and would look brilliant when full and televised.

I wasn't at the recent IRE V Georgia game but I was in that stadium a few years back. It has it's charms.

Nobody wants to say it but regular games against tier 2 nations to get back in the winning habit is what Wales need at test level. A second division 6N would be just the ticket for that.

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Over the sideline 50 minutes ago

Competing interests and rotated squads: What the 'player welfare summer' is really telling us

I know many seem to keep this line of thinking but do a lot of top players play in France?

No ABs do, very few Wallabies do, no English or Irish do as their national selection policy doesn’t allow it, and do Scotland and Wales select from OS?

I do know that Nonu plays in it tho.

Probably a number of PI nations players do and that is a problem for those nations around getting released for tests.

Saffa's would be the main non French players who still also play tests I’d imagine.

The actually study of the comps make-up would be interesting.

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IkeaBoy 54 minutes ago

Competing interests and rotated squads: What the 'player welfare summer' is really telling us