Ireland: Teams up for Chicago jolly!

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The Ireland and New Zealand teams were announced earlier this evening for Saturday’s jolly in Chicago, the game at Soldier’s field kicking off at 20:00 UK/IRE. Live on BTSports 2. 

Ulster’s Rory Best, Jared Payne and Andrew Trimble all start but unfortunately there is no room for Craig Gilroy. I’m also disappointed that Kieran Marmion, Joey Carberry and Garry Ringrose don’t start either though we are likely to see them get some match time with this game likely to be over early in the second half.  🙁 

I was a big fan of Joe Schmidt when he first took over the Ireland coaching role but Ireland have been playing fairly poor rugby of late, if we discount a (very) small revival during the summer tour against an out of sorts South Africa.

As with Ulster, the team have generally looked over coached and overtrained, playing some very formulaic rugby and with his lack of experimentation for this game I expect this to be something similar, it’s just a question of when . . .

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