Ireland 6N squad . . .

Forwards: Finlay Bealham, Rory Best (c), Jack Conan, Ultan Dillane, Tadhg Furlong, Cian Healy, Jamie Heaslip, Iain Henderson, Billy Holland, Dave Kilcoyne, Dan Leavy, Jack McGrath, Sean O’Brien, Tommy O’Donnell, Peter O’Mahony, Donnacha Ryan, John Ryan, Niall Scannell, CJ Stander, Devin Toner, James Tracy, Josh van der Flier

Backs: Tommy Bowe, Andrew Conway, Keith Earls, Craig Gilroy, Robbie Henshaw, Paddy Jackson, Rob Kearney, Kieran Marmion, Luke Marshall, Stuart McCloskey, Luke McGrath, Conor Murray, Tiernan O’Halloran, Garry Ringrose, Rory Scannell, Jonathan Sexton, Andrew Trimble, Simon Zebo

 Cian Kelleher (Connacht) and Adam Byrne (Leinster) are playing far better this season than the selected wings Tommy Bowe, Andrew Conway, Keith Earls, Craig Gilroy, Andrew Trimble or Simon Zebo

Ireland's outside back trio should IMO be:

11. A. Byrne  14. C. Kelleher   15. T. O'Halloran

but Schm¡ dt is quite conservative and will play with R. Kearney (who's not even starting at leinster), Trimble and Zebo/Earls,... very far from the best possible

Agree with much of that ABasque but Simon Zebo has looked pretty sharp on the few occasions I've seen him.

I do know that you have been scoring some good Fantasy Rugby points with Irishmen like O'Halloran, Stander and Van der Vlier.

You sound quite clued up on Irish rugby. Do you have any Irish heritage?

 no, I don't have any Irish heritage (do you?),... but there's been a kind of empathy and support btwin the Basques and the Irish,... involved in similar processes of independence, similar repression, close armed struggle,... I will always cheer them, e.g., against England

but I follow the Irish teams this year because they are playing very good rugby, not only Munster or Leinster (they'll very probably win their QF at home) but also Connacht which was the most attacking orientated team in the competition with Pat Lam at the helm,... yeah, O'Halloran gave me some good Fantasy points as Kelleher did before him

No Irish heritage on my side. Welsh on my father's side and my Mom's family go back to the 1820 Settlers with English ancestry.

Yes, the Irish sides have been excellent in this years club comps. Not sure if that will translate to 6N form but for the sake of Wales I hope it doesn't!

You a Tour de France fan ABasque? I've always had a soft spot for the Basque Euskadel Euskadi team but sadly they packed it in.

 ...Yea i'm also picking Ireland to do well if not win it...based on how well they're teams are playing in the European Cup...not to mention the way they played against the ABs in the US test..

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 rooi,

the sport that nowadays I most practice is cycling, mainly MTB,...
and yeah those times when the Euskaltel-Euskadi
was in the Tour and thousands supporters went
to the Pyrenees were awesome,...
besides Indurain, the 5 times winner,
is from a village very near to where I live,...
there's always been a great support
and praticing of cycling here

about the 6N, seems that Ireland and England are everyone's favorites,...
and IMO they also are but France, Wales and even Scotland are not very far from them,....
I expect the tightest 6N in recent years

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