O’Connell & A Shuffle for Wales!

 Would you want to take on Paul O’Connell…. Wales will tomorrow and boy will they know about it! The Lock will hopefully provide some strength to a struggling line-out!

Losing two full backs has probably caused the biggest confusion, with both Murphy (who had that fantastic last game) and Dempsey out there’s been a reshuffle.. Rob Kearney will revert to his favoured No.15 with Shane Horgan coming in to the right wing and Tommy Bowe switching over to the left…. All making room for Luke Fitzgerald on the bench…
IRELAND TEAM & REPLACEMENTS (v Wales, 2008 RBS 6 Nations, Croke Park, Saturday, March 8, kick-off 1.15pm local time):

15 – Rob Kearney (UCD/Leinster) 4

14 – Shane Horgan (Boyne/Leinster) 59

13 – Brian O’Driscoll (UCD/Leinster) 82 (capt)

12 – Andrew Trimble (Ballymena/Ulster) 22

11 – Tommy Bowe (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster) 11

10 – Ronan O’Gara (Cork Constitution/Munster) 80

9 – Eoin Reddan (London Wasps) 8

1 – Marcus Horan (Shannon/Munster) 54

2 – Rory Best (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster) 20

3 – John Hayes (Bruff/Munster) 82

4 – Donncha O’Callaghan (Cork Constitution/Munster) 43

5 -  Paul O’Connell (Young Munster/Munster) 50

6 – Denis Leamy (Cork Constitution/Munster) 30

7 – David Wallace (Garryowen/Munster) 44

8 – Jamie Heaslip (Clontarf/Leinster) 6

Replacements

16 – Bernard Jackman (Clontarf/Leinster) 7

17 – Tony Buckley (Shannon/Munster) 5

18 – Mick O’Driscoll (Cork Constitution/Munster) 14

19 – Simon Easterby (Llanelli Scarlets) 64

20 – Peter Stringer (Shannon/Munster) 81

21 – Paddy Wallace (Ballymena/Ulster) 7

22 – Luke Fitzgerald (Blackrock College/Leinster) 2

 

Tags: Ireland, Six Nations, Wales
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