Ireland U20

U20 Championship: Malone shuffles the cards for Scotland clash

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Ireland U20’s coach Peter Malone has made six changes to the starting XV for this win or bust match against Scotland, their second pool match in the 2017 World Rugby U20 Championship. With both teams losing their opening fixtures there is little room to manoeuvre if either side is going to place higher than eighth.

This compact and attritional tournament tends to favour those coaches that trust the full depth of their squad and Ireland’s depth is already being well-tested by injuries and withdrawals, the latest casualty being hooker Diarmuid Barron who fractured his thumb in the opening exchanges of Wednesday’s game and has been replaced by Adam Moloney, who comes straight onto the bench.

However, I’d guess that the management team were always going to mix things up in the two opening fixtures, irrespective of the results, and with a few players ruled out of the opener with niggling injuries they need to be tested now.

Unfortunately, the changes mean that there . . .

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