Ireland have named a 32-man training squad for their Six Nations Championship match against France at the Aviva Stadium with Ronan O’Gara being left out of the group.
rugbyweek
Ireland have injury concerns over flyhalf Jonathan Sexton and have called up recent debutant Paddy Jackson and the uncapped Ian Madigan for the training panel.
Whilst Sexton is an injury concern he has been included in the squad as well as Mike McCarthy, Donnacha Ryan and Craig Gilroy.
Both Robbie Henshaw and Daren Cave were not considered due to picking up concussions while playing for their provinces over the weekend.
The other uncapped players involved are Leinster duo David Kearney and Eoin O’Malley, Ulster’s Robbie Diack and Tommy O’Donnell of Munster, with Diack’s provincial colleagues, Dan Tuohy and Andrew Trimble, also drafted in.
A full medical update will take place tomorrow at the Ireland team media session at 1pm, but none of the 32 members of the squad have been ruled out of contention for selection against France.
Ireland Suad:
Rory Best, Sean Cronin, Robbie Diack, Keith Earls, Luke Fitzgerald, Declan Fitzpatrick, Craig Gilroy, Cian Healy, Jamie Heaslip, Iain Henderson, Paddy Jackson, Dave Kearney, Rob Kearney, David Kilcoyne, Ian Madigan, Luke Marshall, Mike McCarthy, Fergus McFadden, Conor Murray, Sean O’Brien, Donncha O’Callaghan, Tommy O’Donnell, Brian O’Driscoll, Peter O’Mahony, Eoin O’Malley, Eoin Reddan, Mike Ross, Donnacha Ryan, Jonathan Sexton, Andrew Trimble, Devin Toner Dan Tuohy.
Rob Diack?
Interesting.
When O’Gara has come on in the last two games he has played quite poorly so no real surprise there, this is something that the selectors should have done before the last game with Madigan a good option too but they maybe weren’t brave enough to go with two rookies at test level. Interesting to note that former WP man Robbie Diack has been included in the training squad, wonder if he will make the match day 23 though.
1 @ Loosehead:
also good morning GBS, Lion4ever and xkreniwp
Good morning Loosehead SNAP you just beat me to it
3 @ Bullscot:
Hello Bully-beefie!
How’s the Beefies on your side of the pond?
4 @ grootblousmile:
Hello GBS doing great thanks man and how about in your household hope all’s bakgat there too. A bit of a dull day here today but can’t complain as its been really quite dry for a while and we’ve some sunshine for more than the last week, some cold on its way here possibly in the week or two but hopefully thats not a problem…
5 @ Bullscot:
We’re fine this side too, just bloody, bloody tired man.
Was up until 03:00 this morning after we eventually arrived home from going to the West Rand yesterday afternoon. Went there to friends to set up a network for them seeing as Handbriekie and the wife on the other side will be starting up a collaberation in business together when Handbriekie finishes at the Newspapers (she has resigned and they have big plans ahead).
Freegin Network was troublesome man, with one of the 2 Network printers being a Canon Wi-Fi jobbie which had great trouble interfacing with the 5 PC’s and Notebooks on the other side (also Wreless). But you know me, I am a perfectionist in my work and was’nt happy till EVERYTHING was spot-on, all scanning and printing off both Network printers, file sharing all set up and the Video Conferencing and Whiteboarding software all set up… mail accounts done and old mails imported into the new Outlook Accounts ect.
So, I’m a bit frail this morning!
6 @ grootblousmile:
Yeah great man remember you mentioning about your Handbriekie’s new career moves sounds like its exciting times ahead, as for you shame that you so knackered you not a machine so must chill and “have a break have a kit kit” at times too
7 @ Bullscot:
oops meant to say kit kat not kit kit, seems like I am becoming more and more afflicted with our Puma’s typo struggles
7 @ Bullscot:
Fark, today I need Salusa 45… or in my case Salusa 48… hehehe
Big thing about working that late on PC’s is the strain the eyes take… my eyes are shot this morning.
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