Emerging Ireland

[Rooster]

No Currie Cup teams

Think making Tiger or Lion curry would possibly be illegal?

[therealspratt]

Emerging Ireland Squad to play Uruguay

Avchala Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia KO 17:00 / 14:00 GMT

15. Peter Nelson (Malone/Ulster)

14. Cian Kelleher (Lansdowne/Leinster)

13. Eoin Griffin (London Irish)

12. Noel Reid (Clontarf/Leinster)

11. Matt Healy (Lansdowne/Connacht)

10. Rory Scannell (Dolphin/Munster)

9. John Cooney (Terenure/Connacht)

1. James Cronin (Dolphin/Munster)

2. Dave Heffernan (Buccaneers/Connacht)

3. Stephen Archer (Cork Constitution/Munster)

4. Andrew Browne (Galwegians /Connacht)

5. Billy Holland (Cork Constitution/Munster)

6. Rhys Ruddock (St Mary’s College/Leinster) captain

7. Frank Taggart (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster)

8. Eoghan Masterson (Corinthians/Connacht)

Replacements:

16. Rob Herring (Ballynahinch/Ulster)

17. Denis Buckley (Corinthians/Connacht)

18. Andy Warwick (Ballymena/Ulster)

19. Ben Marshall (Old Belvedere/Connacht)

20. Dan Leavy (UCD/Leinster)

21. Jack Conan (Old Belvedere/Leinster)

22. Luke McGrath (UCD/Leinster)

23. JJ Hanrahan (UL Bohemians/Munster)

So Taggart starts, very interesting. Starting to suspect Clive Ross may not be Clarke's call.

[ruckover]

Big Licence the loosehead covering tighthead, while James Cronin who is converting to a tighthead is starting at loosehead. Logic.

[Snipe Watson]

So Taggart starts, very interesting. Starting to suspect Clive Ross may not be Clarke's call.

I suspect Clarke will be implementing a predetermined game plan from D4.

[BaggyTrousers]

Big Licence the loosehead covering tighthead, while James Cronin who is converting to a tighthead is starting at loosehead. Logic.

Interesting just the same, from memory at least two of his first three Ulster appearances were at TH yet when we were scraping around for a TH towards the end of the season, not one minute did he play at TH ...........damn few at LH either.

[Rooster]

Big Licence the loosehead covering tighthead, while James Cronin who is converting to a tighthead is starting at loosehead. Logic.

Interesting just the same, from memory at least two of his first three Ulster appearances were at TH yet when we were scraping around for a TH towards the end of the season, not one minute did he play at TH ...........damn few at LH either.

Did Big Licence not take on Healy on one of his first outings and did all right ?

[CIMANFOREVER]

Came on for Lutton at the Pro12 Semi, and immediately steadied the scrum. He may be a geniune ambiscrumptious option- he's compact, similar build to a french tighthead.

Anyways, then MA pressed the self-destruct button with the subs.....

[ColinM]

Yes his first few appearances were on the TH side, the fans were cautiously optimistic that he could have the potential to do a job there, and then he revealed in an interview that he'd never played on the tight before and considered himself a loosie.

I'd prefer if he were left alone to master the Loosehead side, and Lutton can help us on the tight. Bross as a backup there and as far as I know Kyle McCall is not transferring to hooker any more and should be viewed as a prop of some sort.

[therealspratt]

Taggart looked really rather solid today, I'd say he's a good bet for making the bench next season, hit his rucks well and generally looked busy, maybe not the biggest carrier but did his share and presented the ball quickly enough!