Yer team

[Lizard]

Forwards (17)
Rory Best (Banbridge/Ulster) 119 caps CAPTAIN
Tadhg Beirne (Lansdowne/Munster) 8 caps
Jack Conan (Old Belvedere/Leinster) 15 caps
Sean Cronin (St Mary’s College/Leinster) 69 caps
Tadhg Furlong (Clontarf/Leinster) 35 caps
Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster) 90 caps
Dave Kilcoyne (UL Bohemians/Munster) 30 caps
Iain Henderson (Queens University/Ulster) 47 caps
Jean Kleyn (Munster) 2 caps
Peter O’Mahony (Cork Constitution/Munster) 59 caps
Andrew Porter (UCD/Leinster) 17 caps
Rhys Ruddock (St Mary’s College/Leinster) 22 caps
James Ryan (UCD/Leinster) 18 caps
John Ryan (Cork Constitution/Munster) 20 caps
Niall Scannell (Dolphin/Munster) 16 caps
CJ Stander (Shannon/Munster) 32 caps
Josh van der Flier (UCD/Leinster) 18 caps

Backs (14)
Bundee Aki (Galwegians/Connacht) 19 caps
Joey Carbery (Clontarf/Munster) 19 caps
Jack Carty (Buccaneers/Connacht) 6 caps
Andrew Conway (Garryowen/Munster) 15 caps
Keith Earls (Young Munster/Munster) 77 caps
Chris Farrell (Young Munster/Munster) 5 caps
Robbie Henshaw (Buccaneers/Leinster) 37 caps
Rob Kearney (UCD/Leinster) 91 caps
Jordan Larmour (St Mary’s College/Leinster) 15 caps
Luke McGrath (UCD/Leinster) 13 caps
Conor Murray (Garryowen/Munster) 73 caps
Garry Ringrose (UCD/Leinster) 23 caps
Jonathan Sexton (St Marys College/Leinster) 83 caps
Jacob Stockdale (Lurgan/Ulster) 20 caps

[paddy no 11]

Well I got the Addison thing wrong

Feel sorry for toner, kleyn doesn't deserve it

Cooney should be there

Back row is pants but beirne may start there for qf provided we get that far!

[paddy no 11]

6 actual munster men.......terrible effort from us

[Mikey Brown]

I vaguely remember seeing Kleyn's name in the pro14 but not much else. Has he got some massive point of difference that saw him get in ahead of Toner? Pre-empting potential citing for Toner? Or is that too late already?

[Lizard]

I'm sure Kleyn has dreamed of pulling on a green jersey at a World Cup since he were a lad...

[SerjeantWildgoose]

6 actual munster men.......terrible effort from us

There’s 7. Ye forgot Sean Cronin.

[Mellsblue]

I'm sure Kleyn has dreamed of pulling on a green jersey at a World Cup since he were a lad...

Stop throwing shade.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

12 of the 31 from Munster! That’s our season fucked, then.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

14 Ladyboys. Looks like their thirds will have to win everything up to Christmas.

2 from the Wesht and 3 Billies - Pro14 could be swept up by the development provinces before we get booted out in the QF.

[paddy no 11]

6 actual munster men.......terrible effort from us

There’s 7. Ye forgot Sean Cronin.

You're right I'm wrong again, total meh on team

Kleyn is more mobile and a bit more abrasive but he's still average, toner could hypothetically rescue our ailing line out

[francoisfou]

I'm sure Kleyn has dreamed of pulling on a green jersey at a World Cup since he were a lad...

Stop throwing shade.

'tis a disgrace, I tell ye...
A pound to a pinch of you know what that Jeannie Kleyn's never ever shovelled an ounce of turf!

[Spiffy]

Tough on Kieron Marmion, the second best SH in Ireland who has generally played well when given the chance.
Kleyn is just a big lump of ballast, selected by the pound, and should not be there. No different from Quin Roux and no better than Ultan Dillane.

[old-n-slo-2nd-row]

Really thought Marmion played his way into a shirt. Kleyn just meh .. hasn’t shown anything to put him above some more obvious Ireland choices in second row.

[hellovating]

Schmidt has wanted Toner out for ages. He's only been selected in the past 12 months to bail out the lineout. Kleyn is a far superior player and he's not going to get into the 23. Rory should have been phased out as well.

I think Jordi is the unlucky one.

[hellovating]

6 actual munster men.......terrible effort from us

4 limerick men

[SerjeantWildgoose]

I am no great fan of Rory Best under some circumstances (Notably with ball in hand, toes on the touch and 5m from the opposition line), but with more tackles in his 28 minutes on Saturday than all of the Welsh combined, there’s no denying he still has it in him. Since the alternative would appear to be taking another South African along, I’m happy that Rory gets the big-stage swan song he deserves

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Agree on Jordi being unlucky to miss the cut, but who of Tadhg, Conan, POM, Ruddock, CJ or JvdF would you have left behind to make room?

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Tough on Kieron Marmion, the second best SH in Ireland who has generally played well when given the chance.

Agreed, but I am told that McGrath has put in such a shift at camp that he couldn’t be left out.

Kleyn is just a big lump of ballast, selected by the pound, and should not be there. No different from Quin Roux and no better than Ultan Dillane.

Yer a gobshyte. Kleyn is better by far than Roux and a good margin better than Ultan. Do ye watch any Pro14 r*gby over there or are ye just too busy smearing yerself in seal fat and Elk piss?

[hellovating]

Agree on Jordi being unlucky to miss the cut, but who of Tadhg, Conan, POM, Ruddock, CJ or JvdF would you have left behind to make room?

Ruddock probably. POM and Beirne cover 6. Stander and Conan cover 8. A back up at 7 is needed. Jordi is a better 7 than POM, Stander and Ruddock.

I'd probably have said Ruddock was unlucky then though.

[paddy no 11]

Turns up forthe WC and not a peep about the all Ireland like

[hellovating]

Turns up forthe WC and not a peep about the all Ireland like

i was drunk for a year.

we left a second behind us.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

And where were ye, with the congrats for Tipp? Yer a pair o hoores, both of ye!

[paddy no 11]

Hon Tipp - played the best hurling deserving winners no doubt

[hellovating]

nah

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Hon Tipp - played the best hurling deserving winners no doubt

Fair play; ye said the very same back in June.

nah

Away an’ hoke!