U20 Six Nations: Ireland clinch title with win over France

Ireland U20’s clinched the 2019 U20 Six Nations Championship with a thrilling win against their French counterparts at Independent Park, Cork on Friday night.

With Scotland U20 beating Wales U20 27 – 20 at Meggetland, Edinburgh at the same time, Ireland U20 are now home and hosed in the championship and will be aiming for a Grand slam when they face Wales U20 at Parc Eirias, Colwyn Bay on Friday 15th March.

The results from the three games played on Friday are shown below.

Ireland U2031 – 29France U20
Scotland U2027 – 20Wales U20
England U2035 – 10Italy U20

This leaves Ireland six points clear of their nearest rivals with one game to play.

TEAMPLWPDBPPTS
Ireland4449218
France4223412
England4228311
Wales422210
Scotland41(37)26
Italy41(65)15

Ireland’s points came from tries from prop Josh Wycherley (2) and his replacement . Late replacement out half had an excellent game with the book, keeping Ireland’s noses in front with four penalties and two conversions.

France responded with four tries with , (2) and crossing, the impressive Carbonel adding three conversions and a penalty for a personal haul of 19 points.

I suppose the scorers, two props in Ireland’s case and a prop, an outhalf and a centre in France’s, is a fair reflection of how the game went from what little I saw of it. France looked dangerous with the ball in hand, however Ireland just wanted it more and they put in the work to grind out the win.

The Ulster involvement in this one consisted of Angus Kernoghan (Queens) putting in 73 minutes and try scorer Reid (Banbridge) got 16 minutes. In a tight game, there were limited substitutions and (Banbridge) didn’t get a run.

Full report and pics over on the IRFU site. 

Ireland France
Jake Flannery15Alexandre de Nardi
Angus Kernohan14Vincent Pinto
Liam Turner13Arthur Vincent
Sean French12Julien Delbouis
Jonathan Wren11Matthis Lebel
Ben Healy10Louis Carbonel
Craig Casey9Quentin Delord
Josh Wycherley1Jean-Baptiste Gros
Dylan Tierney-Martin2Rayne Barka
Tom Clarkson3Alex Burin
Charlie Ryan4Gauthier Maravat
Niall Murray5Florent Vanverberghe
Martin Moloney6Paul Boudehent
Scott Penny7Sacha Zegueur
John Hodnett8Jordan Joseph
   
John McKee16Loris Zarantonello
Callum Reid17Eli Eglaine
Ryan Lomas18Giorgi Beria
Ryan Baird19Adrien Warion
David McCann20Maxence Lemardelet
Cormac Foley21Kevin Viallard
James McCarthy22Mathieu Smaili
Rob Russell23Ethan Dumortier

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