Team Of The Week
It wasn’t easy, with more strong team performances than individual ones, but a team has been scraped together with 12 different countries represented!
It wasn’t easy, with more strong team performances than individual ones, but a team has been scraped together with 12 different countries represented!
Ireland meet the Lelos for the 4th time in their history, and the 3rd in Dublin, though both previous matches were at the old Lansdowne Road.
After a grueling few days of playing catch-up, it’s finally time to hammer down this week’s offering, with selections coming from eight different nations.
Well, what can you say? A monumental upset, arguably Joe Schmidt’s finest hour as a coach, and one of the great Irish performances of the professional era.
There seems to be an awful lot of optimism swimming around Irish circles at the moment for this one. Anything but a Springbok victory would be a miracle.
Eight more games to comb through, but this looks like a pretty reasonable offering for this week’s selection. Fullback was the tough one…
A look at the test matches from the weekend played between Samoa and Italy, Fiji and Tonga, Australia and France, and lastly Argentina and Ireland.
Ireland got a little more than they bargained for against the Pumas last week, and should face much the same in Tucuman on Saturday.
After eight grueling matches it’s finally time to unveil last weekend’s team. Is this the first time ever an All Black hasn’t made the side?
The second of two sets of reviews, this time featuring the games in South Africa, Argentina, Canada, and the United States.