Ireland U20: Who’s been doing what so far.

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Ireland U20, the current Six Nations “Grand Slam” champions have been competing in the 2019 World Rugby U20 Championships in Argentina the last couple of weeks and with the Pool stages just completed we have a look at who has been doing what in the campaign so far. 

Despite winning the Grand Slam, this was always going to be a difficult tournament for Ireland who had, justifiably, stuck pretty tightly to a core team throughout that tournament only making changes when injury dictated. Unfortunately, the limited squad expansion came home to roost with key players missing out on this tournament due to injury. 

On reviewing the squad when it was first announced we stated that a top six finish should be their goal in this intense tournament. It doesn’t take much to derail any side with five games over 18 days.

Ireland’s injury woes have continued with four players making the trip home but they are pretty much where they need to be at this stage of the tournament . So . . .

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