{"id":9258,"date":"2019-09-02T08:13:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T12:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=9258"},"modified":"2019-09-02T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T15:02:19","slug":"irelands-rugby-world-cup-squad-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=9258","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s Rugby World Cup Squad Named"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Ireland coaching group have named the 31 man squad that will travel to Japan on the 11th September to compete at Rugby World Cup 2019.<\/p>\n

The squad is captained by Rory Best who will play at a fourth Rugby World Cup having been involved in the 2007, 2011, 2015 editions.<\/p>\n

Six of the squad named featured at the previous two Rugby World Cups (2011 & 2015) \u2013 Sean Cronin, Keith Earls, Cian Healy, Rob Kearney, Conor Murray and Johnny Sexton, while a further five played in the 2015 tournament \u2013 Tadhg Furlong, Iain Henderson, Robbie Henshaw, Peter O\u2019Mahony and Rhys Ruddock<\/p>\n

The remaining 19 players will be making their Rugby World Cup debuts \u2013 Bundee Aki, Tadgh Beirne, Joey Carbery, Jack Carty, Jack Conan, Andrew Conway, Chris Farrell, Dave Kilcoyne, Jean Kleyn, Jordan Larmour, Luke McGrath, Andrew Porter, James Ryan, John Ryan, Niall Scannell, CJ Stander, Garry Ringrose, Jacob Stockdale and Josh van der Flier.<\/p>\n

Ireland are in Pool A and will play Scotland, Japan, Russia and Samoa. Ireland\u2019s opening fixture is against Scotland at the Yokohama Stadium in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

Six days later Ireland will take on tournament hosts Japan in Shizuoka before playing Russia in Kobe the following Thursday. Ireland\u2019s final pool game is against Samoa on Saturday 12th in Fukuoka.<\/p>\n

Ireland play Wales in the final game of the Guinness Series 2019 at Aviva Stadium on Saturday \u2013 tickets are on sale from ticketmaster.ie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt, commented: “It was a difficult thing right from the start to have the 45 that we had. We went down to 40 players and to go from 40 down to 31 was really difficult, but we had a process whereby we looked back through every training, looked through the games.<\/p>\n

“There were some guys who obviously had more experience and probably had more credit in the bank and were more established and there were other guys who were trying to force their way into group and trying to get a balance of current form versus previous performance, it\u2019s always a very very difficult conundrum to try to solve.<\/p>\n

“It was one of those typical selection meetings where maybe 20-25 of the players are listed straight away and it\u2019s those ones where you\u2019re are trying to get balance where it\u2019s very difficult to choose between two players and two players offer slightly different things and you\u2019re trying then to narrow down and trying to get the best balance across the squad of the entire 31 because that\u2019s part of what you need to do because you\u2019ve got to make sure you have cover that\u2019s immediate even though you can replace players there is obviously a big time delay in that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ireland \u2013 Rugby World Cup Squad 2019
\nForwards (17)<\/strong>
\nRory Best (Banbridge\/Ulster) 119 caps CAPTAIN
\nTadhg Beirne (Lansdowne\/Munster) 8 caps
\nJack Conan (Old Belvedere\/Leinster) 15 caps
\nSean Cronin (St Mary\u2019s College\/Leinster) 69 caps
\nTadhg Furlong (Clontarf\/Leinster) 35 caps
\nCian Healy (Clontarf\/Leinster) 90 caps
\nDave Kilcoyne (UL Bohemians\/Munster) 30 caps
\nIain Henderson (Queens University\/Ulster) 47 caps
\nJean Kleyn (Munster) 2 caps
\nPeter O\u2019Mahony (Cork Constitution\/Munster) 59 caps
\nAndrew Porter (UCD\/Leinster) 17 caps
\nRhys Ruddock (St Mary\u2019s College\/Leinster) 22 caps
\nJames Ryan (UCD\/Leinster) 18 caps
\nJohn Ryan (Cork Constitution\/Munster) 20 caps
\nNiall Scannell (Dolphin\/Munster) 16 caps
\nCJ Stander (Shannon\/Munster) 32 caps
\nJosh van der Flier (UCD\/Leinster) 18 caps<\/p>\n

Backs (14)<\/strong>
\nBundee Aki (Galwegians\/Connacht) 19 caps
\nJoey Carbery (Clontarf\/Munster) 19 caps
\nJack Carty (Buccaneers\/Connacht) 6 caps
\nAndrew Conway (Garryowen\/Munster) 15 caps
\nKeith Earls (Young Munster\/Munster) 77 caps
\nChris Farrell (Young Munster\/Munster) 5 caps
\nRobbie Henshaw (Buccaneers\/Leinster) 37 caps
\nRob Kearney (UCD\/Leinster) 91 caps
\nJordan Larmour (St Mary\u2019s College\/Leinster) 15 caps
\nLuke McGrath (UCD\/Leinster) 13 caps
\nConor Murray (Garryowen\/Munster) 73 caps
\nGarry Ringrose (UCD\/Leinster) 23 caps
\nJonathan Sexton (St Marys College\/Leinster) 83 caps
\nJacob Stockdale (Lurgan\/Ulster) 20 caps<\/p>\n

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