Ireland: Plenty of pluses in Emerging Ireland’s defeat to South Africa.

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Tbilisi-Cup

Emerging Ireland lost 16 – 8 to the South Africa President’s XV in the Tbilisi Cup this afternoon, a match they really should have won. Ireland’s only try came from Michael Allen with Ian Keatley adding a penalty, however with a dominant scrum and well functioning line out they should have done so much better.

I did some moaning about this tournament when we announced the original squad but I must admit I’ve really enjoyed the two matches that Emerging Ireland have been involved in. Don’t know if it’s the excitable Georgian commentators, or laughing at the photographers following the game en mass up and down the side line, or maybe it’s because the games are missing a fair amount of the commercialism, cynical play and macho posturing of the senior seniors, but they have been largely agreeable romps in Georgia on the whole with the occasional bout of . . .

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