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Ireland name team with three changes for their Grand Slam decider

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Andy Farrell has named an Ireland team to host England that has three changes from their win away to Scotland last Sunday. The Irish suffered several injuries in that 22-7 BT Murrayfield success and that has impacted the XV that will chase Guinness Six Nations Grand Slam honours versus the English in Dublin.

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The unavailable Garry Ringrose and Iain Henderson have been respectively replaced at outside centre and lock by Robbie Henshaw and Ryan Baird, a pair who played off the bench in Edinburgh. The third alteration sees Jamison Gibson-Park swap places at scrum-half with Conor Murray.

Other alterations from last Sunday’s bench are Rob Herring for the injured Ronan Kelleher at hooker, Kieran Treadwell for the promoted Baird, and Jimmy O’Brien for the promoted Henshaw. Jack Conan has also been named as a replacement after Caelan Doris, the starting No8, recovered from the injury that saw him leave the fray early in Scotland.

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Ireland team (vs England, Saturday – 5:0)
15. Hugo Keenan (Leinster/UCD) 29 caps
14. Mack Hansen (Connacht/Corinthians) 13 caps
13. Robbie Henshaw (Leinster/Buccaneers) 61 caps
12. Bundee Aki (Connacht/Galwegians) 45 caps
11. James Lowe (Leinster) 19 caps
10. Johnny Sexton (Leinster/St Mary’s College) 112 caps (c)
9. Jamison Gibson-Park (Leinster) 24 caps
1. Andrew Porter (Leinster/UCD) 52 caps
2. Dan Sheehan (Leinster/Lansdowne) 16 caps
3. Tadhg Furlong (Leinster/Clontarf) 64 caps
4. Ryan Baird (Leinster/Dublin University) 10 caps
5. James Ryan (Leinster/UCD) 52 caps
6. Peter O’Mahony (Munster/Cork Constitution) 93 caps
7. Josh van der Flier (Leinster/UCD) 49 caps
8. Caelan Doris (Leinster/St Mary’s College) 27 caps

Replacements:
16. Rob Herring (Ulster/Ballynahinch) 33 caps
17. Cian Healy (Leinster/Clontarf) 122 caps
18. Tom O’Toole (Ulster/Ballynahinch) 8 caps
19. Kieran Treadwell (Ulster/Ballymena) 10 caps
20. Jack Conan (Leinster/Old Belvedere) 37 caps
21. Conor Murray (Munster/Garryowen) 104 caps
22. Ross Byrne (Leinster/UCD) 18 caps
23. Jimmy O’Brien (Leinster/Naas) 4 caps

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Alan 811 days ago

They have a really clear game strategy, plus the Rugby IQ to deliver it. If they get passed the All Blacks in the quarters, they win for mine

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JD Kiwi 1 hour ago
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how did JD miss the knock on?


Oh come on!😂

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JD Kiwi 1 hour ago
Why Brumbies could be key to avoiding a Lions tour cricket score

Great win in Auckland too.

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JD Kiwi 1 hour ago
Why Brumbies could be key to avoiding a Lions tour cricket score

It's a fair point that Toole has to take the lion's share of the game for dropping the ball when he knew that would be the match. First priority should have been to keep possession.

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JD Kiwi 1 hour ago
Why the Gallagher Premiership is setting the gold standard in club rugby

You could just type one extra character 😂

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JD Kiwi 2 hours ago
‘Title win could set Chiefs up to build a Super Rugby dynasty’

No idea

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CG 2 hours ago
Should the All Blacks return the fabled number seven jersey to Ardie Savea?

If the Friz is back then yes Ardie at seven if not then Karifi at seven

Popalili is a big strong fast suitcase and blacky has a very solid head

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Derek Murray 2 hours ago
Why Brumbies could be key to avoiding a Lions tour cricket score

Wow, Hooper’s stats are impressive.


I have been unimpressed previously by Lonergan but his form over the last month or two, when it has mattered the most, has been top drawer.


I was very surprised you chose Foketi in your hybrid Brumbies’ side - he’s always been a favourite of mine but has looked old and slow this season. I think Lal’s time has passed.

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Tommy B. 2 hours ago
Rassie Erasmus wades into heated debate over Jaden Hendrikse antics

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

I’ll go with one more because it’s so funny but then I must stop. There’s only so long you can talk to the nutter on the bus.

There is no legal impediment in the GFA to ANY form of border. It’s mentioned very briefly and ambiguously but even then there’s a caveat ‘if the security situation permits’ which is decided by the British government as the border is an internationally, UN recognised formal border between sovereign states. Now, you can argue that this is because it was assumed it would always be in the EU context - but we all know the issue with ‘assumption’. As to your hilarious drivel about what you think is in the GFA, you clearly haven’t read it or at best not understood it. There are still 1,580 British Army troops in NI. The legal status of NI as part of the UK is unchanged.

So, there was a problem for those that wanted to use the border to complicate any future British government changing regulations and trade arrangements through domestic legislation. Hence ‘hard border’ became ANYTHING that wasn’t a totally open border.

This allowed the EU and their fanatical Remainer British counterparts to imply that any form of administration AT the border was a ‘hard border.’ Soldiers with machine guns? Hard border. Old bloke with clipboard checking the load of every 200th lorry? Hard border. Anything in between? Hard Border. They could then use Gerry’s implicit threats to any ‘border officials’ to ensure that there would be an unique arrangement so that if any future parliament tried to change trade or administrative regulations for any part of the UK (which the EU was very worried about) some fanatical Remainer MP could stand up and say - ‘this complicates the situation in NI.’

You’ve just had a free lesson in the complex politics that went WAY over your head at the time. You’re welcome.

Now, I must slowly back out of the room, and bid you good day, as you’re clearly a nutter.

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Ed the Duck 3 hours ago
Why the Gallagher Premiership is setting the gold standard in club rugby

Yeah, urc way more stable. You only have to look at Cardiff where, despite their own wobbles, the wru stepped in and ensured everything didn’t fall into bankruptcy. Currencies relatively simple to manage, F1 do it but the really interesting scenario would be if a Craig, Lansdowne, Altrad type came along and decided to really go for it in the URC!

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PB 3 hours ago
Rassie Erasmus names 54-man Springboks squad with 9 uncapped players

Junior Boks last won the U20 WC in 2012. Won the WC in 2019 and 2023.

So where is the correlation?

Part of your answer is in that at U20 level the coaches are still balancing quota numbers.

Many fine young players end up playing for Euro clubs instead.

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fl 3 hours ago
Only two Lions make Gallagher Premiership team of the season

Cotgreave

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SC 4 hours ago
‘Title win could set Chiefs up to build a Super Rugby dynasty’

Does McKenzie have another sabbatical in his new contract?

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SC 4 hours ago
‘Title win could set Chiefs up to build a Super Rugby dynasty’

To be fair, I do not believe ALB or Havili should be selected for the All Blacks again. There are simply younger and better midfielders.

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SL 4 hours ago
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Like everything else with the Welsh team, they clung on to Jenkins for too long. He was a goal kicker foremost, distributor second and tactical kicking and running well down the order. He did well with Halfpenny but that was down to the player being dedicated and to some extent with Biggar. But place kicking has deteriorated in the last 5 years and tactical kicking and skills have been non-existent in the last 2 or 3 years. Jenkins’ role is no longer valid and he should be thanked and moved on.

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JD 4 hours ago
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They managed to nab Rayasi from Samoa I see, great coup.

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fl 4 hours ago
Rassie Erasmus names 54-man Springboks squad with 9 uncapped players

SA haven’t won it very frequently, but they’re equal 1st for SF appearances, and have finished in the top 3 more than anyone else. France were patchy at senior level before they began performing well in the u20s, and improved rapidly thereafter. There’s an extremely strong correlation between how good a team is at u20 level, and how good they are at senior level.


Its certainly possible that Rassie will pull a rabbit out of the hat and suddenly unearth a load of young talent, but there’s absolutely no evidence to suggest that that would be likely.

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IkeaBoy 4 hours ago
Rassie Erasmus wades into heated debate over Jaden Hendrikse antics

NOT EVEN CLOSE!!!


You are a weapons grade moron!


A ‘hard border’ would refer to the only time a physical, manned border has or would have existed on the island. It could NOT be enforceable.


An armed British army presence on the Island can’t happen under the GFA and passing the border duties onto a police force would make them the legal definition of a paramilitary force!!!!


Even BORIS wasn’t so thick that he couldn’t grasp this! 😝


Correction - you didn’t have the largest empire in history. You LOST the largest empire in history!


You have a life? Do you have an empire?

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Tommy B. 4 hours ago
Rassie Erasmus wades into heated debate over Jaden Hendrikse antics

2024 ‘race riots’? What are you banging on about? Hilarious for a country about to be split asunder and burning down asylum seeker hotels. Wonder if Conor McGregor will be your next President? Would just about sum you up.


I can’t carry on with this back an forth with two mental patients. Unlike you I’ve got a life.

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Carlos 4 hours ago
Why Brumbies could be key to avoiding a Lions tour cricket score

Nick, it’s “finals” rugby. Drops are three points still. You should have at least three players that can drop kick from those distances.

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Tommy B. 5 hours ago
Rassie Erasmus wades into heated debate over Jaden Hendrikse antics

😂🤣😂🤣😂

I’ll try one more time then I must leave it. I can’t waste any more time on thick mental patients. Unlike you, I’ve got a life.

THE PHRASE ‘HARD BORDER’ WAS USED PRECISELY BECAUSE IT COULDN’T BE FIRMLY DEFINED. THAT WAS THE POINT OF THE PHRASE YOU MORON.

If you don’t understand by now it’s a waste of everyone’s time. We must simply accept you’re uneducable.

At the time of Collins’s death (hilariously killed by his ‘own side’) Britain was the biggest empire in history. You were a small, piddling little inconvenience somewhere off the coast that wasn’t worth crushing anymore. It was after the First World War and there were far, far more important things to do.

You were insignificant then, and you’re insignificant now. The really hilarious thing is that you almost immediately started to slaughter each other. You need dominating, you see, it’s why you actually NEED to be someone’s gimp all through your history.

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