Autumn Internationals. Teams up for Ireland v South Africa.

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Jamie Heaslip will captain Ireland in the opening game of the 2012 Guinness Series against South Africa this Saturday.

The Leinster No.8 will be leading his country for the first time when he walks the team onto the Aviva Stadium pitch as part of a side that contains one new cap in the starting team and a further three uncapped players among the replacements.

Richardt Strauss will earn his first cap for Ireland at hooker in the front row alongside his provincial colleagues Cian Healy and Mike Ross. Mike McCarthy is selected in the second row alongside Donnacha Ryan, with Chris Henry selected to start at openside in the back row, with Peter O’Mahony selected at blindside.

In the backs, Simon Zebo will be earning his first start for Ireland at full back, in a back three that has plenty of experience in Andrew Trimble and Tommy Bowe, who will be earning his 50th international cap for Ireland since making his debut against the USA in 2004.

Jonathan Sexton and Conor Murray are selected as the halfbacks with Gordon D’Arcy and Keith Earls completing the starting lineup as the centre partnership.

Among the replacements, forwards David Kilcoyne, Michael . . .

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3 responses to “Autumn Internationals. Teams up for Ireland v South Africa.”

  1. Garibaldi

    Two young stags rutting (rucking) comes to mind!

  2. Garibaldi

    Surely Henderson’s future is a world class blindside flanker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    1. John

      Ops you are of course correct Garibaldi – these throw away lines at the end of an article are always the ones to watch out for! The big man has 6 written all over him.

      It’ll be interesting to see how Hendy performs in caparison to Eben Etzebeth, should of course the Ulsterman come on. I remember both of them have a few feisty encounters in the JWC in Italy a couple of years ago. Of course they were both playing in the second row then.

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