Gareth Anscombe World Cup Dream Might Be Over Due To Injury during Training

Gareth Anscombe World Cup Dream Might Be Over Due To Injury during Training

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 / No Comments

Gareth Anscombe World Cup Dream Might Be Over Due To Injury during Training

Gareth Anscombe is under the monitor of the Wales officials as they are preparing to name their squad for the World Cup. He is suffering from an ankle injury which he got during training. It is still not clear that hoe severe the injury is and Wales is being monitoring him. Warren Gatland, the coach of the Wales is supposed to name the final squad of 31 men for the World Cup on the next Monday. The fly half may be left out of the team if he can’t make out from the ankle injury. He is now wearing a protective boot to save the ankle from further damage. He is supposed to go for further assessment to know the severity of the injury.

Gareth Anscombe impressed everyone when he made his international debut earlier this month against Ireland. In the match he came off the bench played significant part in the match to defeat Ireland by 35-21 in the fully loaded Millennium Stadium. Since then there is been talking that he is going to be in the 31 men squad of Warren Gatland. Talking about the injury a spokesman from the Welsh Rugby Union said, 

Gareth did pick up an ankle injury in training last week, and he is continuing to be assessed at the moment.

Originally from New Zealand, 24 years old Gareth Anscombe qualified for the Wales team as his mother was born in Cardiff. WRU national dual contract was signed by him earlier in the year when he changes side from the New Zealand Super Rugby team Chiefs to the Blues. There are two more players to fill his place in the team. Rhys Priestland and Dan Biggar are in the team to do so but versatility provided by Anscombe as potential providing full back & also for goal-kicking cover gives him an edge over them. Earlier his chance in the team seemed more increasing as James Hook, the Gloucester star was cut by Gatland with another 8 players from the extended training squad earlier in this month. The chances became stronger due to his confident performance against Ireland in the warm up match.

Wales is going to play their return warm up match in Dublin gains the Irish team on the coming Sunday. Seven days later they will host Italy for another warm up match. Their journey in the Rugby World Cup 2015 will start by playing against Uruguay on the 20th September in Cardiff. In their pool there is also the host nation of the Rugby World Cup 2015 England. Two times world champion Australia is also in their pool.  Wales is now ranked as sixth the World Rugby Rankings and their best place in the world cup was third in 1987. They also got the fourth position in the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Losing Gareth Anscombe at this time will be blow to their rugby world cup dream.

No Place for Danny Cipriani in the England Squad for World Cup

No Place for Danny Cipriani in the England Squad for World Cup

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No Place for Danny Cipriani in the England Squad for World Cup

Danny Cipriani has been left out of the of 31 men squad of England which is being chosen for the Rugby World Cup 2015. He was left out by Stuart Lancaster as prepares to name the 31 man squad. The announcement came on Thursday at 1:45 pm that Danny Cipriani is one of the eight players who are being left out of the team as the team becomes 39 men squad to 31 men squad. On the last Sunday he had an impressive match against France but it seems that was not enough to keep him in the team. Although the fans supported him as he was named the man of the match in Paris. He was in the filed as a replacement and played for only 17 minutes in the full-back position. So people want to see him in the 31 man squad which will be announced by Stuart Lancaster on Thursday.

However he is not going to make it and his hopes to play for England in the Rugby World Cup has been shattered as he receives personal conformation which let him knot het he was in the cut too. He is one of the eight players who will be leaving the camp on Thursday after showing fierce commitment in training camp. Although being out of the team he is still going to take part in a practice match of 15v15 on Wednesday afternoon in Pennyhill Park. The match will let Lancaster to make his final decision about choosing Luther Burrell or Sam Burgess for the final 31 man squad. The huge support group has already made arguments that he was not given enough chances to make his case on the field. He had half an hour on the filed time against France on august 15 at Twickenham. During the summer camp it seemed that Lancaster was impressed with his performance and he agreed that keeping him out was the hardest decision from him in the selection for World Cup process.

As a player Danny Cipriani has quiet a past history of trouble along with the high level performance in the field. He was also accused of few off-field misdemeanors on the field. In 2008 he made swears in a TV Interview which was live and he was also knocked out in that year by his Wasps Team member Josh Lewsey in the training camp. In 2010 complaints was made by management during England trip in Italy. In 2011 he was accused of theft as he took a vodka bottle without paying. In the same year he was dropped by his team Melbourne Rebels as he did not came timely in the training and he breached team rules too. Next year he had to go Sale Sharks as he had to cut the contract shot in Melbourne.  Same year he was dropped by the Sale due to poor performance.  In 2015 he was arrested due to car crash in Chelsea and the suspicion was he was drunk driving at that time.

Johne Murphy Says GoodBye to Professional Rugby

Johne Murphy Says GoodBye to Professional Rugby

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Johne Murphy Says GoodBye to Professional Rugby

Johne Murphy, the former winner of English Premiership and PRO12 player has called the end of his professional carrier after playing for ten years. Earlier today he made the announcement of his retirement from the professional level of rugby. He had a really successful carrier of ten years in which he managed to won the titles twice. Once with the Munster and the other time with the Leicester Tigers. He made 91 appearances in total for the Munster. In his time with the club he managed to win the famous PRO12 during 2011. During 2010 he was also with the team when they made the historical win over Australia in the Thomond Park in November. Before being part of the province he played for the Leicester Tigers and made 99 appearances for them. With them he was able to win the prestigious English Premiership for three times. He also managed to win the EDF Energy Cup too for one time with the club.  He spent five years with the Leicester Tigers.

He was also part of the ‘A’ team of the Ireland which managed to win the Churchill cup in the year of 2009. He was also a member of the Irish Wolfhounds and Emerging Ireland team too. With the Emerging Ireland team he managed to won the Nations Cup in the year of 2014. He was included in the squad of Ireland for the summer tour of 2010. With this team he played against the NZ Maori and the Barbarians. During making the announcement he said,

 "I'm grateful for the long and successful career that I've had but it is now time to call an end to it. I would like to thank all my mentors, coaches, teammates, the fans who have made my time in the sport so special and most of all my family for all the support they have given me throughout the last 10 years."

In the twitter, he said he has lived the dream for the last ten years and he had a blast in doing so. He also thanked the Leicester Tigers and Munster for their support during the time in the team. From the Munster rugby team twitter they thanked him for all the good memories and wished the best for his future. The Irish Rugby official correspondent also wished him good luck and thanked him too for being a part of their team. In a personal twitter Tommy Bowe said he was very sorry to hear that Jhone was going to hung up his foot. He wished a great future for him. He became 31 years old this year and he came to realization that his glory days are almost over as he is not able to catch up with the speed of professional rugby. He is planning to spend more time with the family. It is sad for the sport itself that such a great player is leaving it for good.

South Africa vs. Argentina: The Springboks Won Conveniently By a Big Margin

South Africa vs. Argentina: The Springboks Won Conveniently By a Big Margin

Tuesday, September 8, 2015 / No Comments

South Africa vs. Argentina

South Africa did a tremendous job against Argentina. They won the match by 26-12. They played the first half with tremendous energy and confidence and ended up by leading 20-9. Though Argentina fought back in the second half but it was not enough. Three penalties were taken in this half. South Africa had two and Argentina had one. Argentina missed a lot of chances but it was their bad luck.

Because of hamstring injury and scrums, Marcos Ayerza got late withdrawal from the front row of puma. It’s sure that his absence is the reason of puma’s penalized for four times as scrums. Victor Matfield praised the South African coach Pieter de Villiers. He said that Villiers worked hard with his players through the week on scrumming. Though the scrums for the whole game were messy. 12 scrums happened during the match. Those scrums incurred sin penalties, twelve collapses, two free kicks and seven resets. At the end of the game Springboks had the control of the play.

Springboks were top of their game from the first to last whistle. They had solid possession and also did protect their possession at the same time. The game were started as Patrick Lambie kicked off. But it was Pumas who got the turnover when Zane Kircher was trying to do attack. Their first chance came when Eben Etzebeth did a splendid tackle. He helped Puma to get a corner. It was the best scoring chance for puma though it was a miss.

After sometime Agustin Greevy did a tackle and penalized. They were ahead just after six minutes as the result was 3 – 0. Then it was Marcell Van Der Merwe who got penalized because of arm binding. Nicolas Sanchez took the credit of first score for his team and after fourteen minutes it was 3 – 3. At sixteen minutes Argentina again penalized during tackle and Lambie scored against them. South Africa took the lead by 6-3. After that South Africa again tried to attack but this time Lambie failed to produce a good kick towards wing. After that springboks did attack after attack and got two penalties within five meter. But both of them were unsuccessful.  During second half, Springboks used a scrum (5 meter) which was also unsuccessful. Pienaar gave pass to Brayan Habana at the wing. Brayan scored the easiest try of the game. At twenty six minutes Lambie scored for South Africa and the result become 13-3. Lwazi Mvovo scored in 29 minutes by beating three defenders. It was converted by Lambie. Before half time Sanchez did tackle and missed. He gave the opponent a straight penalty.  After several minutes another player miss tackled against Etzebeth and gave away penalty. These penalties made the half time score 20-9.

In the second half, both of the hookers were substituted. At 43 minutes Lambie scored again and make the difference 23-9. Then Sanchez scored again in penalty at the result was 26-9 while only twenty five minutes remained for Argentina to come back. But Argentina did able to add only three more points. Patrick Lambie was nominated as the man of the match.

England vs. France: English Won through Set Pieces in Tight Game

England vs. France: English Won through Set Pieces in Tight Game

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English Won through Set Pieces

It was a high pressure game between England and France. At the end England secured their victory by 19-14 at Tw Ickenham. Penalty count and poor set pieces of France made the win easier for England. England had showed that they can also play attacking game in this match. France players should be motivated to play better in the upcoming world cup (September 18) from this match. After the game England captain Tom said that it was important for them to start the warm up games with a win.

Dmitri Szarzewski was the skipper of France team. His team did much positive and stronger gameplay at the beginning. They almost did a flying start with winger May and center Dulin. But Dulin did not able to put his hand on ball right before the dead ball line. But they continued pressuring on France and Parra won the penalty for France when Sam burgess did a bad tackle. Morgan Parra scored and give France lead at the sixth minute of the match. But England took only five minutes to score back against France. Watson was tackled by Dulin and we must say that it was not Dulin’s best effort. England got the penalty and Anthony Watson scored at the eleventh minute. The score became 3-3. On the very next minute Owen Farrell scored for England. They took the lead as 7-3 in twelve minute. France tried their best to stop England’s next attack from the right wing. But they could not make it as Anthony Watson took the pass with a tremendous position and finished his run properly to the corner side. He scored his second at the eighteen minute of the game.  Not a single defensive hand from France was able to touch him. A hit by Burgess allowed France to drop the ball. Parra was in his best form during that day and earned a penalty from England due to scrum. He scored in that penalty at twenty sixth minute and lift up the confidence of France.  After six minutes Parra scored again. He sailed his third penalty through post at thirty two minute of the first half. Luke Burgess got the yellow card and forced to sin-bin. Luke Burgess scored at thirty four minute for England. England did lead after half time. The score was 12-9.

In the second half England showed an outstanding performance. The high cross kick by Alex Goode was perfect for May as he chased the ball. He did perfection for another score on behalf of England at the forty five minutes. OWEN FARRELL did another score in forty six minute. Calum Clark was replaced for Guilhem Guirado. But the flank player (Calum) got the yellow card at fifty four minutes which reduced England team into fourteen men. French team took the advantage and started fight back. At sixty minutes flank player FULGENCE OUEDRAOGO made his way by bull dozing to the bottom corner and made another score for France. Winger ANTHONY WATSON from England got the man of the match award.

France vs. England Live Stream: Match Time, Venue, Squads, Prediction

France vs. England Live Stream: Match Time, Venue, Squads, Prediction

Thursday, August 27, 2015 / No Comments

France vs. England: Match Time, Venue, Squads, Prediction

France and England will play against each other on August 15 at the Stade de France, Paris. This match will be the 101st edition of the Le Crunch. Rumors going that almost twenty six changes have been made by these two teams from the last week.

In England team, the only player who has the experience from 19-14 victory. For France there are three players who has the same experience. Yoann Maestri, Scott Spedding and Louis Picamoles. Another two players Philippe Saint – Andre and Stuart Lancaster got themselves out from the team line ups.

France’s last week team was full of experiment. But in Paris, coach will not do much experiment with the lineup. For France, Mathieu Bastareaud, and Wesley Fofana are going to join back in the midfield. Also wingers Noa Nakaitaci and Yoann Huget are coming back on the team line up. For England Guilhem Guirado, Sébastian Tillous-Borde and Bernard le Roux all are coming back. But France’s Frédéric Michalak will remain the most interesting addition to the team. He is only four points behind from the record, France’s all time point’s scorer. Fans are hoping that he will be able to touch the milestone on this match as Saint Andre was not selected.

Frédéric Michalak has started his journey for this record milestone only two years ago. H is one of the most talented, smart and erratic international rugby player. He has versatile skill for the scrum half cover and also have extra value for fly half holds at the time of trimming down. Now it is the time to see whether his team members are going to give him proper support or not. Senior players Eddy Ben Arous, Rabah Slimani, Guirado will return for the front line up. For France, key player Michalak can make the difference. But the whole France team need to lift their confidence level and also the execution level.

In their last match, France did not play up to their level. Often they kicked aimlessly and also took many wrong decisions. In many times, they just let the ball go through their hands. Also they did not able to make enough scoring threats. They must improve their finishing. They should reduce the percentages of wasting chances.  Though it is a warm up match, Right now they badly need a win more than any other team to boost up their confidence level. They only managed to able two wins from their last six matches.

On the other hand England will mostly focus on their top player’s form. Lancaster is ready with their best line up. The only risk is selecting James Haskell and dropping Tom Wood.  

Tournament: Pre world cup campaign.

Date: august 15, Saturday.

Time: 19:00 GMT

Venue: Stade de France, Paris

Match referee: Jaco Peyper (South Africa)

Live Stream: Sky Go (UK)

Squad members:

France:  Eddy Ben Arous, Yoann Maestri, Noa Nakaitaci, Rabah Slimani, Mathieu Bastareaud, Guilhem Guirado, Louis Picamoles, Wesley Fofana, Noa Nakaitaci, Damien Chouly, Rabah Slimani, Pascal Papé, Scott Spedding, Sébastien Tillous-Borde, Frédéric Michalak, Yoann Huget, Bernard le Roux, Pascal Papé.

Replacement: Gaël Fickou, Vincent Debaty, Alexandre Flanquart, Rory Kockott, Uini Atonio, Benjamin Kayser, Yannick Nyanga, Rémi Talès.

England: Joe Marler, Courtney Lawes, Chris Robshaw, Ben Youngs, Jonny May, Jonathan Joseph, Mike Brown, Joe Launchbury, Luther Burrell, Billy Vunipola, James Haskell, Dave Attwood, Jack Nowell, George Ford, Tom Youngs, Dan Cole.

Replacement: Billy Twelvetrees, Danny Care, David Wilson, Mako Vunipola, Danny Cipriani, Nick Easter, Jamie George.

Canada vs. USA Live Stream: Match Preview, Date, Time, Venue, Squad

Canada vs. USA Live Stream: Match Preview, Date, Time, Venue, Squad

Saturday, August 22, 2015 / No Comments

Canada vs. United States: Match Preview

The United States and Canada are going to face each other on their final warm up match before their 2015 rugby world cup campaign in Twin Elm Park, Ottawa. This International match is scheduled to kick off at 16.00 Eastern Time (13.00 Pacific Time; 20.00 GMT). The USA recently beat the CANADIANS in the Pacific Nations Cup, 2015. So they might expect to repeat the history one more time. On the other side, the Canadian will expect to take some revenge upon the Eagles and seal a win over them. Both the teams are taking this match very seriously and rugby lovers’ audience all over the world are expecting to enjoy a thrilling match.

In a glimpse:

Date: Saturday, August 22
Venue: Twin Elm Park, Ottawa
Kick-off: 16.00 Eastern Time (13.00 Pacific Time; 20.00 GMT)
Referee: Stuart Berry (South Africa)
Assistant referees: Andrew McMaster (Canada), Ed Gardner (USA)

Squad report:

USA team news: USA fly half AJ MacGinty led his team on the win over the CANADIANS with a late minute goal. He will again make a partnership with scrum half Mike Petri in this match. Thretton Palamo and Seamus Kelly will also resume their partnership as like as the last one year. Brett Thompson will also start for the fourth time on the wing opposite to Blaine Scully who scored total three tries since the year 2011 against the CANADIANS. USA head coach Mike Tolkin demands that the wing should be aerial and side by side also strong runners to win the ball. Zach Fenoglio, Eric Fry and Titi Lamositele will retain their positions on the final row. Al McFarland- as a flank, Andrew Durutalo’s place will be also in the back. Mike Tolkin said in the press conference,

Certainly we have excellent talent in the centers. The boys were in outstanding form.

United States Team: Chris Wyles (captain), Seamus Kelly, Blaine Scully, Brett Thompson, Thretton Palamo, Mike Petri, AJ MacGinty, Andrew Durutalo, Danny Barrett, Greg Peterson, Al McFarland, Cameron Dolan, Zach Fenoglio, Titi Lamositele and Eric Fry.

Replacements: Phil Thiel, Chris Baumann, Olive Kilifi, Matt Trouville, Louis Stanfill, Niku Kruger,  John Quill,  Andrew Suniula.

Canada Tema News: On the other hand, for CANADA due to Tyler Aarond’s absence, Aaron Carpenter will captain the side. Besides Carpenter, only Hubert Buydens, John Moonlight and Harry Jones are the CANADIAN players to be listed in this match after their last 15-13 defeat to the Eagles. Buydens will be in the front row with newly recruited Ray Barkwill and Doug Wooldridge, while Jon Phelan and Tyler Hotson will play in the lock. Another new recruiter Nanyak Dala will join up with Moonlight and Carpenter at the back row. McRoie will be at the scrum half, Hirayama as the fly half, Blevins at the center with Trainor, Jones at the full back, Mackenzie and Paris at the wings. Canadian Coach Kieran Crowley said,

 There are some guys in the team who did really well in the PNC and therefore deserve places in the team. Some talented guys are the newcomer and we hope they will prove their potential in the pitch.

Canada Team: Aaron Carpenter (captain), Phil Mackenzie, Harry Jones, Nick Blevins, Conor Trainor, Nathan Hirayama, Taylor Paris, John Moonlight, Gordon McRorie, Jon Phelan, Nanyak Dala, Tyler Hotson, Ray Barkwill, Doug Wooldridge and Hubert Buydens.

Replacements: Benoit Piffero, Andrew Tiedemann, Djustice Sears-Duru, Kyle Gilmour, Evan Olmstead, Phil Mack, Matt Evans, Ciaran Hearn..

After this match, the Eagles will host Harlequin on Sunday. Then they will face Australia on the next week’s Saturday. On the other side, Canada will face Glasgow Warriors on 29th August, Georgia on September 2 and take on Fiji, the PNC champion on 6th September.

Italy vs. Scotland Live Stream: match preview, Schedule, venue, team line up

Italy vs. Scotland Live Stream: match preview, Schedule, venue, team line up

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Italy vs. Scotland Live Stream

Italy will play their first warm up international game against Scotland on Saturday. There are so much predictions are going on because of this high pressure match. Scotland has already did a lot of changes in their team to ensure the best outcome. On the other hand this will be Italy’s first match after March.

Scotland will try to increase their game play level in the field. They lost their last game against Ireland which was really impressive the final score was 22-28. Coach Vern Cotter will try to ensure that his team should avoid this kind of little margin loss. He also said that he will talk with Matt Taylor, the defense coach about the lacking and will give extra effort on set pieces. Also it is important to ensure that Scotland’s breakdown area will not show any weakness during match time. They already replace a very potential player John Hardie (New Zealand) to repair the damage of their defense.

The host team Italy will also play for the win. It is sure that they will do some experiment with their team to find the perfect combination. Italian coach Jacques Brunel gave a huge surprise by letting Tommaso Benvenuti a start in the center position.  Also Zebre’s Guglielmo Palazzani replaced on the position of Edorado Gori as a scrum-half. He was suspended at the last match. Another player Davide Giazzon, will start his third match against Italy. He will make trio attack on the front row with Matisas Aguero and Lorenzo Cittadini.

If you see the last three matches between Italy and Scotland, all of them was decided by only five points in total. In the last game, Scotland was defeated at the last minute. An unpredictable penalty gave the win title to the visitor team Italy. So it is sure that the next game will be a high pressure match.

Tournament: Pre world cup campaign.

Teams: Italy vs. Scotland.

Date: On Saturday, 15th august.

Kick off time: the game will start at 18:00 GMT.

Venue: Stadio Olimpico, Turin.

Referee: JP Doyle from England.

Live Stream: BT Sport App (UK)

Squads

Italy squad: 1. Matias Aguero, 2. Andrea Masi, 3. Lorenzo Cittadini, 4. Tommaso Benvenuti, 5. Giovambattista Venditti, 6. Guglielmo Palazzani, 7. Alessandro Zanni, 8. Valerio Bernabó, 9. Leonardo Sarto, 10. Gonzalo Garcia, 11. Tommaso Allan, 12. Samuela Vunisa, 13. Francesco Minto, 14. Quintin Geldenhuys, 15. Davide Giazzon.

Replacements: 1. Carlo Canna, 2. Mauro Bergamasco, 3. Martin Castrogiovanni, 4. Leonardo Ghiraldini, 5. Luke McLean, 6. Marcello Violi, 7. Marco Bortolami, 8. Michele Rizzo.

Scotland squad: 1. Gordon Reid, 2. Mike Cusack, 3. Grant Gilchrist, 4. John Hardie, 5. Sam Hidalgo-Clyne, 6. Richie Vernon, 7. Greig Tonks, 8. Rory Hughes, 9. Stuart McInally, 10. Richie Gray, 11. Alasdair Strokosch, 12. Adam Ashe, 13. Duncan Weir, 14. Matt Scott, 15. Sean Lamont.

Replacements: 1. Damien Hoyland, 2. Henry Prygos, 3. Jim Hamilton, 4. Alasdair Dickinson, 5. Ross Ford, 6. Peter Horne, 7. Willem Nel, 8. Hamish Watson.

Springboks inflict their revenge upon the pumas

Springboks inflict their revenge upon the pumas

Wednesday, August 19, 2015 / No Comments

SPRINGBOKS INFLICT THEIR REVENGE UPON THE PUMAS

The South Africans managed to gain their revenge upon the Hosts for the last week’s sudden defeat to them in Durban securing a comfortable 26-12 win in Buenos Aires on Saturday. The Springboks made a huge difference between the results of these two weeks from the early of the game and led the Pumas by 20-9. The visiting sides just simply outnumbered the Hosts with such a dominative fashion. This game will also help the both teams to think about some places for the upcoming Rugby World Cup 2015.

Before their first worm up match for the world cup rugby, the South Africans had lost their last four games consecutively. So they were really in need of some great performance as a whole to boost their confidence up. From the very first moment of the game, the Boks were trying to tear the Pumas’ defense line up. They got the success at the 7th minute as they achieved a penalty after some impressive works from Brussow and Lambie converted this chance to the lead for the Boks. The Pumas also tried hard to come back in the game and their attempt was rewarded by their first penalty. Sanchez leveled the score as 3-3 for the team. But just after only two minutes the Boks intercepted the kick from the Pumas and tried to make a way to the Pumas half. But Strauss was tackled rough and their team got another penalty. Lambie scored as well. At the 26th minute of the game, a long pass was given to Habana from Pienaar and Havana was able to make a nice try. Lambie scored again and the score-line was 13-3. Lambie was superb in the ground and added some extra points this time. The Boks led by 20-3. Sanchez helped the Pumas to score some consolation points for the team from a penalty take-out. Sanchez stunned the audience again as he secured 3 points from 50m away and the score was 20-9. The first half ended with this score.

Just after two minutes of the second half, Pienaar passed a nice ball to Lambie who scored a drop goal. Sanchez converted a penalty from 45 meters away and the score turned to 23-12. At the 56th minute, Lambie scored from another penalty awarded to the Springboks and the team got a lead of 26-12. The score didn’t change further anymore. The South Africans got so many chances after their last score but they weren’t able to avail those. Tomas Lavanini was booked and sent to sin bin at the 63rd minute, but the Springboks were not able to take some benefits of one man being short.

Patrick Lambie was judged as the Man of the Match as he had 100% of kicking record. Moreover, he was versatile on both the attack and defense. He was the brightest performer among the all on the pitch.

The scorers:

For Argentina:
Pens: Sanchez 4

For South Africa:
Tries: Habana, Mvovo
Cons: Lambie 2
Pens: Lambie 3
DG: Lambie

South Africa will face Japan on their opening match of Rugby World Cup 2015. On the other side, Argentina will compete with New Zealand as their opening.

IRELAND vs. SCOTLAND: WORLD CUP WORM UP MATCH PREVIEW DATE TIME VENUE SQUAD & LIVE STREAM

IRELAND vs. SCOTLAND: WORLD CUP WORM UP MATCH PREVIEW DATE TIME VENUE SQUAD & LIVE STREAM

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IRELAND vs. SCOTLAND

Ireland must be morally boosted up for their latest 40-10 win over Scotland at the Murrayfield as they are going to compete again in the worm up battle of rugby world cup 2015 this Saturday at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin. Despite a disappointed winless six nations tournament ending with the defeat against the Irish, the arrival of new head coach Vern Cotter is also making the Scottish optimistic about some positive result this time. This match is scheduled to kick off on 15 August, Saturday at 17:00 local time (16:00 GMT).

Match: Ireland vs. Scotland (world cup worm up match)

Date: Saturday, August 15

Kick-off: 17:00 local (16:00 GMT)
Venue: Aviva Stadium, Dublin
Referee: Pascal Gauzère (France)
Assistant Referees: Jérôme Garcès (France), Marius Mitrea (Italy)

Live Stream: Sky Go app (UK), Super Sport stream (SA)

TV Info: Sky Sports 1 (UK), Super Sport 6 (SA)

Coverage: Live commentary on BBC Radio Ulster FM and the BBC Sport website. 

Squad Report:

Ireland Team News:  Irish coach Joe Schimdt has announced Sean O’Brien as the captain for the team for the Dublin encounter of Rugby World Cup 2015. Jack Conan, 23 years old young Leinster flanker is expected to make his place for the senior Ireland team for the first time as a replacement of Chris Henry. Henry got a mini stroke last November while playing test against South Africa. He had to undergo a surgery and back to the field again. Henry was the second half replacement against the Wales match and impressed Schimdt to secure his place in the team. Devin Toner and Dan Tuohy are going to join in the second row while Mike Ross, Sean Cronin and Dave Kilcoyne will join the first row. Gordon D'Arcy and Jared Payne will play at the centre position. Isaac Boss and Ian Madigan are going to pair up at the half-back. The Irish are pretty much confident with this squad. Their back row Sean O’Brien said, 

No doubt the last five or six weeks were full of hard work and intensive. We hope we can make this on the field now and approach it in the exact way.

Ireland Team: Tommy Bowe, Simon Zebo, Gordon D'Arcy, Jared Payne, Ian Madigan, Luke Fitzgerald,   Dave Kilcoyne, Isaac Boss, Mike Ross, Sean Cronin, Dan Tuohy,  Devin Toner, Chris Henry, Jack Conan and Sean O'Brien.

Replacements: Michael Bent, Richardt Strauss, Paul O'Connell, Nathan White, Eoin Reddan, Jordi Murphy, Dave Kearney and Paddy Jackson.

Scotland Team News: Henry pyrgos has been announced officially the captain of Scotland side for the Dublin battle. Greig Tonks also gets a chance at the fly-half position. The 22 years old Hugh Blake has secured a place in the back row with Blair Cowan and David Denton. Ruaridh Jackson has been selected as the full back and Fraser Brown for the first time as a hooker. Jim Hamilton is going to start up with Grant Gilchrist in the second row. Their head coach Vern Cotter have evaluated their team as he said, “The boys have worked really hard for the team strength and conditioning as well, so that we can have more power and tolerance level from our players. We are also focusing to upgrade their basic skills.”

Scotland Team:  Sean Lamont, Ruaridh Jackson,  Peter Horne, Richie Vernon, Greig Tonks, Tim Visser,  David Denton, Henry Prygos (c), Blair Cowan, Hugh Blake, Jim Hamilton, Grant Gilchrist,  Fraser Brown Jon Welsh and Ryan Grant

Replacements: Gordon Reid, Ross Ford, Rob Harley, Mike Cusack, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne, John Barclay, Matt Scott and Duncan Weir