You have a nap these days and another Irish team is announced! This time it’s, the future Ulster supremo, Allen Clarke’s Emerging Ireland!
As is Clarke’s wont the Ulster participation is kept to a minimum, though he does have some excuse with, our man of the series, Robbie Diack ruled out with a calf injury. Only Rob Herring starts but with Niall Annett, Ricky Lutton, Michael Heaney and, at long last, Peter Nelson on the bench the game is sure to finish with a reasonable Ulster participation.
The game against Uruguay should be Ireland’s easiest fixture in the mini tournament so it’s probably safe enough giving the Connacht boys a run out though I am surprised that the centre paring of Noel Reid and Brendan Macken, that impressed in the match against South Africa Presidents XV, has been split up with Connacht’s Eoin Griffin getting the nod at outside centre.
Despite my . . .
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