The UAFC

We should have one of the best youth systems about by now considering we have had a decade now with a free stadium which is a big money generator compared to before. And unlike others who only rent/are in big debt. Instead, we've blown the loot on expensive journeymen and still have gotten nowhere....

Tale of the summer: U19 Wed 26/7: v Irish Qualified (Newforge); 26:26 draw Sat 19/8: v Connacht (Sportsground) 20:22 loss Sun 27/8: v Munster (Newforge) 19:31 loss Sat 2/9: v Leinster (Newforge) 21:50 loss U18 Schools Fri 4/8: v Connacht (Clongowes Wood); 28:32 loss Sat 12/8: v Munster (Newforge); 7...

Jetstream wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 8:21 pm Willie was a warrior. We need someone like him to throw a bit of lead instead of these touch feely prats.

Sure he’s more interested in cultured back play - taught Mikey Lowry everything he knows according to……..himself

I'm not particularly close to it, but had been under the impression that things had gotten a lot better when Anderson and Campbell were in charge. Though one has now retired and the other moved on. Always liked the notion of Andersons categorisation of players into the four W's, warriors, winners, ...

Get the whole underage results isn’t the be all end all but something is fundamentally off how far behind we are getting. Knock on is we’ll have less & less selected for Ireland underage with less development opportunities which go with that. Leinster had a tour to England & a warm up squad ...

Be good to hear ljs thoughts but I’d have thought something along the lines of: Clark Logan (scrum half), Tom McAllister (prop), Jamie Jackson (back row) (injury recovery permitted - did knee in interpros last years missing 9mths & then reinjured at start of summer & out for another spell), ...

Very poor start for the U18 Schools having lost to all 3 other provinces over the last couple of weeks. I know at least 12 of the 23 from today trained up a year group last summer with 9 being in inter-pro action last year for either the Clubs or Schools, with many as starters. So really was expecti...

That’s actually a good even number. No doubt Leinster have the best of the rest and a stronger 23, but still, hopefully means their dominance in Irish rugby is on the wane (I already think it is) I’m not sure how this squad was selected given inter pros yet to be played. Given relatively even split...

Ireland U18 development week was 29 man squad made up of:

Munster 8
Leinster 7
Ulster 6
Connacht 6
IQ 2

So Connacht missing same number as Ulster to Ireland.

Currently in both the Republic and Northern Ireland there are 246 Schools playing rugby; Ulster (107), Leinster (75), Munster (41) and Connacht (23). If the above data is correct how are we losing schools games to Connacht? They have only 7 schools playing in their Senior Cup. 33 teams in the schoo...

Big-al wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 6:01 pm Anyone know the Ulster schools vs Connacht schools result?

Know they lost - think it was something like 32-28 to Connacht

A 29-man U18 Ireland squad has been selected to travel to Wales for a weeklong development camp with their Welsh, Scottish and Italian counterparts in August. The squads will train together at Cardiff University over the week with a final day consisting of three thirty minutes matches against each o...

Underage fixtures & results to date. Nice development to see U18 Schools having home & away fixtures v Munster/Leinster this year as part of inter-pros as the Connacht game is only a friendly due to them only having one U18 team who compete in the Clubs inter-pros. U19 Wed 26/7: v Irish Qual...

Does anyone know if Henry Walker the new academy hooker from saracens will be playing for the u19s this summer? Hasn’t been training with them thus far anyway. Will be interested if he’s actually part of the IQ team travelling over to play the U19s - think they are due to have a fixture Wed 26th Ju...

Does anyone know if Henry Walker the new academy hooker from saracens will be playing for the u19s this summer? Hasn’t been training with them thus far anyway. Will be interested if he’s actually part of the IQ team travelling over to play the U19s - think they are due to have a fixture Wed 26th Ju...