Ireland Team to Face Scotland

Ireland: G Murphy; T Bowe, B O’Driscoll, G D’Arcy, K Earls; J Sexton, T O’Leary; C Healy, R Best, J Hayes; D O’Callaghan, P O’Connell; S Ferris, D Wallace, J Heaslip.
Replacements: S Cronin, T Buckley, L Cullen, S Jennings, E Reddan, R O’Gara, R Kearney.

Would any of them make it into the Scotland team? Woops, I meant that the other way round. Any Scots you would pick ahead of this lot? The Scotland team announcement has been delayed until tomorrow.

Rory is the editor of Scottish Rugby Blog, and has offered a fan's view on Scottish Rugby since founding the blog in 2007.

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1 response

John says:

March 18, 2010 at 3:40 pm

Tis a strong team no doubt (triple crown chasing and grand slam holding) but as the old addage goes “a team is more than a sum of its parts”.

Fingers crossed that Scotland continue to improve and get a bit more clinical near the try line.

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