Scott Fardy vs Tadhg Beirne Round 2 - Sat 3.15 Sky Sports

FLIP · Post by **FLIP** » March 1st, 2018, 1:36 pm

Our game now the only one not postponed in the Northern Hemisphere

the spoofer · Post by **the spoofer** » March 1st, 2018, 2:13 pm

FLIP wrote:Our game now the only one not postponed in the Northern Hemisphere

I'd imagine there is a lot of pressure from TV to keep the game on.

neill_m · Post by **neill_m** » March 1st, 2018, 2:30 pm

Dublin Airport twitter feed saying flights stopping between 3-4pm today with Ryanair/Aer Lingus flights starting again on Sat am.

https://twitter.com/DublinAirport/statu ... 8654098433

Grumpy Old Man · Post by **Grumpy Old Man** » March 1st, 2018, 3:51 pm

LeRouxIsPHat wrote:
johng wrote:Heard it will be called off shortly.
A week too soon?

cormac · Post by **cormac** » March 1st, 2018, 4:12 pm

Game postponed. No new date as yet.

Lar · Post by **Lar** » March 1st, 2018, 4:27 pm

Presumably weekend of 17/18 March likely....

simonokeeffe · Post by **simonokeeffe** » March 1st, 2018, 5:29 pm

cormac wrote:Game postponed. No new date as yet.

Thank fudge for that

Hopefully its next week

Donny B. · Post by **Donny B.** » March 2nd, 2018, 12:08 am

Hopefully next Friday maybe? Although it will hurt us in that we would have had a stronger team if played this Saturday, you don't want fixtures hanging around like a stale fart!

cormac · Post by **cormac** » March 2nd, 2018, 1:34 pm

Friday 9th March. 7:35pm KO Live on SKY

wixfjord · Post by **wixfjord** » March 2nd, 2018, 1:38 pm

Not sure if this suits us tbh.

Will probably mean we lose guys like Cronin, MCF, maybe Jordi etc who we would have had.

They may gain Patchell back too.

On the plus side, if SOB is really that close he might be an option. Thought wouldn't hold my breath.

Could be looking at something like:

Byrne, Tracy, Bent, Molony, Fardy, Josh M, Connors, Deegan, JGP, Byrne, Daly, Isa, ROL, Byrne, Larmour
Strauss, Dooley, Heffernan, Nagle/Kearney, Timmins, McCarthy, Frawley, DK.

Dave Cahill · Post by **Dave Cahill** » March 2nd, 2018, 1:42 pm

I could live with that. I'd say there isn't a fag paper between Tracy and Brian Byrne right now, and thats not to be critical of Tracy.

LeRouxIsPHat · Post by **LeRouxIsPHat** » March 5th, 2018, 12:06 pm

Not saying this because of it affecting availability for us, but Barry Daly is training with Ireland

curates_egg · Post by **curates_egg** » March 5th, 2018, 1:00 pm

LeRouxIsPHat wrote:Not saying this because of it affecting availability for us, but Barry Daly is training with Ireland

Let me do that for you then...
I mean, great for him, but why do they need him to hold tackle bags?

Ruckedtobits · Post by **Ruckedtobits** » March 5th, 2018, 3:51 pm

LeRouxIsPHat wrote:Not saying this because of it affecting availability for us, but Barry Daly is training with Ireland

Delighted for him and smart (as always) by Joe S. The Scottish back-line has more pace that most within our Squad and bringing in Daly to mimic their wingers in siz e and pace makes sense. BTW, when you are invited to an Irish Squad session you do an awful lot more than hold tackle bags and if you don't learn a lot, that's you're own fault.

curates_egg · Post by **curates_egg** » March 5th, 2018, 4:13 pm

Ruckedtobits wrote:BTW, when you are invited to an Irish Squad session you do an awful lot more than hold tackle bags and if you don't learn a lot, that's you're own fault.

I'd say that's totally true for extended squad members during the prep for a series of games.
I'd be slightly sceptical of applying that statement to a player, who has zero chance of making the matchday squad, and who is brought in on the Monday before the second last 6 Nations game.

Hopefully, we will get him released for Friday (and he will have sufficient prep with the squad).
I would wonder if we will get Ferg too: I can see him losing out to Scannell for the Irish matchday squad...but they probably won't release him anyway.

LeRouxIsPHat · Post by **LeRouxIsPHat** » March 5th, 2018, 4:17 pm

Sam Arnold did some in house media stuff today, wouldn't be totally shocked if he stepped in for Ferg, but then again I've been wrong on 90% of predictions recently

We had last week to prepare for this game as well, so not overly worried about this week being disrupted.

paddyor · Post by **paddyor** » March 5th, 2018, 6:28 pm

Rumour that the Scarlets have signed Tom Varndell on loan from Bristol to the end of the season. Not sure when the move will be completed but would imagine he'll be there for the QF at the latest.

curates_egg · Post by **curates_egg** » March 6th, 2018, 3:44 pm

paddyor wrote:Rumour that the Scarlets have signed Tom Varndell on loan from Bristol to the end of the season. Not sure when the move will be completed but would imagine he'll be there for the QF at the latest.

Confirmed: http://www.the42.ie/tom-varndell-scarle ... =shortlink
From what little I've seen of him this season, he seems in good nick.
States in the article he could play against us!

wixfjord · Post by **wixfjord** » March 6th, 2018, 4:04 pm

I'd say Varndell could still bang in the tries at Pro14 level. Not sure he exactly fits into Scarlets' approach though? From what I remember he seemed to be more of a selfish winger than a guy looking to keep the ball alive and work hard infield.

Will be interesting to see if he plays on Fri. Adam Byrne versus Varndell would be a battle I’d pay to see.

McNichols out for them for the year is a huge loss for them btw.

Ruckedtobits · Post by **Ruckedtobits** » March 7th, 2018, 2:10 pm

So even with 10 changes, Scarlets make up 11 out of the 23-man Welsh Squad for their weekend encounter with Italy.

From a Leinster perspective, delighted with selection of Davies on the Welsh flank. He's a pain the arse for any team trying to get quite ball against Scarlets.

Babbling 'brook

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