IRB Nations Cup 2014

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This tournament kicks off tomorrow in Bucharest.

Schedule:
13.06.2014 – Emerging Ireland v Rusia – 16.00 local time (13.00 GMT)

13.06.2014 – Romania v Uruguay – 19.00 local time (16.00 GMT)

18.06.2014 – Emerging Ireland v Uruguay – 16.00 local time (13.00 GMT)

18.06.2014 – Romania v Rusia – 19.00 local time (16.00 GMT)

22.06.2014 – Rusia v Uruguay – 16.00 local time (13.00 GMT)

22.06.2014 – Romania v Emerging Ireland – 19.00 local time (16.00 GMT)

Venue: Arcul de Triumf Stadium (6000 seats)

All the matches will be broadcasted live by TVR2.
They will also be streamed on: www.rugbytv.ro
A better quality stream is TVR's official one: http://www.tvrplus.ro/live-tvr-2 (it works outside Romania with the Hola Unblocker addon for Chrome or Firefox), IRB's website might also stream it.

Squads:

ROMANIA:

Props
Pungea Horatiu (Scarlets)
Pristavita Constantin (Baia Mare)
Badiu Ionel (Carcassone)
Tarus Alexandru (RCM Timisoara)

Hookers
Capatana Eugen (RCM Timisoara)
Turashvili Otar (Farul Constanta)

Locks
Poparlan Valentin (RCM Timisoara)
Sirbe Marius (Tarbes)
Drenceanu Marian (RCM Timisoara)

Flankers
Macovei Mihai (Massy)
Nistor Vlad (Castres)
Lucaci Viorel (Steaua)
Lazar Dorin (RCM Timisoara)

Number 8
Carpo Daniel (RCM Timisoara)

Scrum half
Surugiu Florin (CSM Bucuresti)
Ivan Valentin (CSM Bucuresti)

Fly Half
Lazar Filip (St. Jean d’Angely)

Centers
Vlaicu Florin (Farul Constanta)
Gal Csaba (Baia Mare)
Dascalu Robert (Steaua)
Ilie Andrei (Farul Constanta)

Wingers
Dumitru Ionut (Steaua)
Hihetah Stephen (Baia Mare)
Ionita Florin (Steaua)

Fullbacks
Statulescu Daniel (CSM Bucuresti)
Conache Gabriel (RCM Timisoara)


RUSSIA: Grigory Tsnobiladze (Krasny Yar), Pavel Butenko (Yenisey), Andrey Igretsov (Slava Moscova), Sergey Sekisov (Strela Kazan), Mikhail Babaev (VVA Moscova), Alexey Makovetskiy (Krasny Yar), Dmitry Gerasimov (Yenisey), Alexey Shcherban (Yenisey), Evgeniy Matveev (VVA Moscova), Andrey Garbuzov (Krasny Yar), Herman Davydov ( VVA Moscova), Alexander Yanyushkin (VVA Moscova), Sergey Yanyushkin (VVA Moscova), Aleksey Volkov (VVA Moscova), Alexander Bezverkhov (Yenisey), Vladimir Ostroushko (Kuban), Valery Tsnobiladze (Krasny Yar), Stanislav Selskiy (Yenisey), Alexander Voytov (VVA Moscova), Denis Antonov (Slava Moscova), Igor Galinovskiy (Krasny Yar), Igor Klyuchnikov (VVA Moscova), Ramil Gaisin (Yenisey), Artem Fatakhov (VVA Moscova), Andrey Temnov (Yenisey), Victor Gresev (Krasny Yar), Yury Kushnarev (Yenisey).

EMERGING IRELAND:

Forwards

Niall Annett (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster)
Rodney Ah You (Buccaneers/Connacht)
Michael Bent (Dublin University/Leinster)
Callum Black (Malone/Ulster)
Paddy Butler (Shannon/Munster)
Bryan Byrne (Clontarf/Leinster)
Robin Copeland (Cardiff Blues)
Sean Dougall (Dolphin/ Munster)
David Foley (UL Bohemians/Munster)
Mick Kearney (Clontarf/Connacht)
Mike McCarthy (Lansdowne/Leinster) (c)
Tommy O’Donnell (UL Bohemians/Munster)
Dominic Ryan (Lansdowne/Leinster)
John Ryan (Cork Constitution/Munster)
James Tracy (UCD/Leinster)

Backs:
Michael Allen (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster)
Andrew Conway (Blackrock College/Leinster)
Craig Gilroy (Dungannon/Ulster)
Eoin Griffin (Galwegians/Connacht)
JJ Hanrahan (UL Bohemians/Munster)
Ian Keatley (Young Munster/Munster)
Brendan Macken (Blackrock College/Leinster)
Paul Marshall (Ballymena/Ulster)
Luke McGrath (UCD/Leinster)
Johne Murphy (Young Munster/Munster)
Noel Reid (Clontarf/Leinster)

URUGUAY: Alejo Corral, Francisco Jimenez, Juan Echeverria, Carlos Arboleya, Nicolas Klappenbach, Mathias Beer, Cristofer Soarez de Lima, Mateo San Guinetti, Agustin Alonso, Fernando Bascou, Mathias Braun, Diego Magno, Franco Lamanna, Alejandro Nieto, Alejo Duran, Guillermo Lijtenstein, Rodrigo Silva, Alberto Roman, Juaquin Prada, Juan de Freitas, Pedro Deal, Santiago Gilbernau, Leandro Levias, Federico Favaro, Jeronimo Etcheverry, Gaston Mieres.

 

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Emerging Ireland vs Russia (13.06, 16.00 local time / 13.00 GMT)
Referees: Ian Davies (Wales) assisted by Cristian Serban and Alexandru Ionescu (both Romania)

Emerging Ireland
15- Johne Murphy (Young Munster/Munster)
14- Craig Gilroy (Dungannon/Ulster)
13- Eoin Griffin (Galwegians/Connacht)
12- Stuart McCloskey (Dungannon/Ulster)
11- Andrew Conway (Blackrock College/Munster)
10 - Ian Keatley (Young Munster/Munster)
9- Paul Marshall (Ballymena/Ulster)
1- Callum Black (Malone/Ulster)
2- Niall Annett (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster)
3- Michael Bent (Dublin University/Leinster)
4- Mick Kearney (Clontarf/Connacht)
5- David Foley (UL Bohemians/Munster)
6- Dominic Ryan (Lansdowne/Leinster)
7- Tommy O'Donnell (UL Bohemians/Munster)
8- Robin Copeland (Cardiff Blues)
Replacements:
16-James Tracy (UCD/Leinster)
17-John Ryan (Cork Constitution/Munster)
18- Billy Holland (Cork Constitution/Munster)
19- Sean Dougall (Dolphin/ Munster)
20- Luke McGrath (UCD/Leinster)
21-JJ Hanrahan (UL Bohemians/Munster)
22- Brendan Macken (Blackrock College/Leinster)

Russia
1. Alexey Volkov
2. Stanislav Selsky
3. Sergey Sekisov
4. Alexander Voytov (Captain)
5. Denis Antonov
6. Andrey Garbuzov
7. Andrey Temnov
8. Viktor Gresev
9. Alexander Yanyushkin
10. Ramil Gaysin
11. Igor Galinovskiy
12. Alexey Makovetskiy
13. Herman Davydov
14. Mikhail Babaev
15. Igor Klyuchnikov

16. Valery Tsnobiladze
17. Grigory Tsnobiladze
18. Alexander Bezverkhov
19. Artem Fatakhov
20. Pavel Butenko
21. Alexey Shcherban
22. Sergey Yanyushkin

 

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Romania vs Uruguay (13.06, 19.00 local time / 16.00 GMT)
Referees: Chris Assmus (Canada) assisted by Razvan Vasiliu and Gabriel Seitan (both Romania)

Romania
1. Constantin Pristavita (Baia Mare)
2. Otar Turashvili (Farul Constanta)
3. Horatiu Pungea (Scarlets)
4. Valentin Poparlan (RCM Timisoara)
5. Marius Sarbe (Tarbes)
6. Viorel Lucaci (Steaua)
7. Mihai Macovei (Massy) - captain
8. Daniel Carpo (RCM Timisoara)
9. Florin Surugiu (CSM Bucuresti)
10. Filip Lazar (St. Jean D'Angely)
11. Florin Ionita (Steaua)
12. Florin Vlaicu (Farul Constanta)
13. Csaba Gal (Baia Mare)
14. Ionut Dumitru (Steaua)
15. Gabriel Conache (RCM Timisoara)

16. Eugen Capatana (RCM Timisoara)
17. Alex Tarus (RCM Timisoara
18. Dorin Lazar (RCM Timisoara)
19. Vlad Nistor (Castres)
20. Robert Dascalu (Steaua)
21. Valentin Ivan (CSM Bucuresti)
22. Daniel Statulescu (CSM Bucuresti)

Uruguay
1. Alejo Corral
2. Nicolas Klappenbach (Captain)
3. Juan Echeverria
4. Cristofer Soares de Lima
5. Franco Lamanna
6. Juan de Freitas
7. Diego Magno
8. Alejandro Nieto
9. Guillermo Lijenstein
10. Alejo Duran
11. Gaston Gibernau
12. Alberto Roman
13. Joaquin Prada
14. Santiago Gibernau
15. Gaston Mieres

16. Carlos Arboleya
17. Mateo Sanguinetti
18. Mathias Braun
19. Fernando Bascou
20. Agustin Alonso
21. Jeronimo Etcheverry
22. Federico Favaro

 

[big ginger 8]

Emerging Ireland are playing now. Up 19-0 around 20 minutes in. There's been a lof of handling errors but it's a fairly free flowing game. If we hold onto the ball we'll really cut them a new one.

EDIT: 24-0 McCloskey beaks through, nearly fluffs the pass but Conway's in for his second.

EDIT EDIT: Small Paul runs the pitch gets dragged down five out offloads to Conway for his hattrick. 31-0

A New EDIT: Gilroy steps about three people running from his own 22 to score.

 

[BRSTLDRGN]

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Dat Uruguay jersey

 

[big ginger 8]

45-0 after 35 minutes. Gilroy makes a great break again and Copeland scores. While I'm tying Copeland breaks and TO'D scores.

52-0

This is a complete joke. We're dominating everything.

 

[big ginger 8]

Less than 5 minutes into the secondhalf and it's 66-0.

Conway could break the competition record for tries scored in one match.

EDIT: Match stopped because of lightning.

 

[UlsterRugby2012]

Bloody hell, I know it's hard to judge against Russia, but how was McCloskey from what you saw BG8?

By the sounds of it that game could have went 100+ as the Russians started to tire more..

 

[Groundhog]

Any highlights?

 

[big ginger 8]

Bloody hell, I know it's hard to judge against Russia, but how was McCloskey from what you saw BG8?

By the sounds of it that game could have went 100+ as the Russians started to tire more..

McCloskey was good enough. Made a nice break as I mentioned above but the pass was very poor nearly went right behind Conway and they were only 2m apart. Carried up well but all the centres basically had to do was get it to their wingers.

Definitely would have broke 100.

Any highlights?

They'd be some really long highlights...

First half should be here in a bit.

http://youtu.be/ZVvrZqklumM

 

[barkinghooker]

Was the final result 66-0? Irb website says so..

 

[big ginger 8]

Was the final result 66-0? Irb website says so..

They're counting it as that. Match finished after 45 minutes because of the weather. I think the Russians basically said fair enough because it usually has to be past 60 minutes for it to count.

 

[barkinghooker]

Was the russians being blooded in or were they playing their test players? Either way, Ireland got some serious stock!

 

[big ginger 8]

Was the russians being blooded in or were they playing their test players? Either way, Ireland got some serious stock!

There wasn't really any starters for Russia.

 

[UlsterRugby2012]

I think 6 of the team that we played in the 2011 RWC were playing today.

According to the IRFU website the Russians had a combined cap total of 511 which is pretty high, so it wasn't like they were blooding a lot of new players.

 

[dragos03]

The first match was ridiculous. 66 points in 45 minutes? Even some Russian fans that were next to me in the stands ended up laughing at the awful perfomance of their team. The thunderstorm saved them from a 100+ defeat for sure. Btw, this is close to the full-strength Russian squad, they are maybe missing 4-5 players and most of their team today are quite experienced.

In the second match, Romania - Uruguay 34-16 (13-13). It wasn't a great match for the Oaks but a decent result considering the young experimental squad used for this tournament.

 

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Emerging Ireland vs Russia highlights


The full (45 min) match can be watched here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS-s3ZaIyzQ&list=UUr9zhnwmEgwHR6QW3onmVOQ

 

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Romania vs Uruguay 34-16 highlights:

 

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Romania vs Uruguay full match:

 

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Round 2

Emerging Ireland vs Uruguay (18.06, 16.00 local time / 13.00 GMT)

Emerging Ireland
15- Craig Gilroy (Dungannon/Ulster)
14- Johne Murphy (Young Munster/Munster) C
13- Brendan Macken (Blackrock College/Leinster)
12- Eoin Griffin (Galwegians/Connacht)
11- Michael Allen (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster)
10 - JJ Hanrahan (UL Bohemians/Munster)
9- Luke McGrath (UCD/Leinster)
1- John Ryan (Cork Constitution/Munster)
2- Bryan Byrne (Clontarf/Leinster)
3- Richard Lutton (Belfast Harlequins/Ulster)
4- Mick Kearney (Clontarf/Connacht)
5- Billy Holland (Cork Constitution/Ulster)
6- Tommy O'Donnell (UL Bohemians/Munster)
7- Sean Dougall (Dolphin/ Munster)
8- Paddy Butler (Shannon/Munster)

16-James Tracy (UCD/Leinster)
17- Callum Black (Malone/Ulster)
18- David Foley (UL Bohemians/Munster)
19- Dominic Ryan (Lansdowne/Leinster)
20- Paul Marshall (Ballymena/Ulster)
21- Ian Keatley (Young Munster/Munster)
22- Andrew Conway (Blackrock College/Munster)

Uruguay
1 Mateo Sanguinetti
2 Carlos Arboleya
3 Juan Echeverria
4 Cristofer Soares De Lima
5 Matias Beer
6 Agustin Alonso
7 Fernando Bascou
8 Mathias Braun
9 Alejo Duran
10 Rodrigo Silva
11 Gaston Gibernau
12 Joaquin Prada (C)
13 Pedro Deal
14 Federico Favaro
15 Jeronimo Etcheverry

16 Nicolas Klappenbach
17 Oscar Duran
18 Franco Lamanna
19 Alejandro Nieto
20 Juan De Freitas
21 Alberto Roman
22 Guillermo Lijtenstein

Romania vs Russia (18.06, 19.00 local time / 16.00 GMT)

Romania
1 Ionel Badiu (Carcassone)
2 Eugen Capatana (RCM Timisoara)
3 Alexandru Tarus (RCM Timisoara)
4 Marian Drenceanu (RCM Timisoara)
5 Marius Sirbe (Tarbes)
6 Mihai Macovei (C) (Massy)
7 Dorin Lazar (RCM Timisoara)
8 Daniel Carpo (RCM Timisoara)
9 Florin Surugiu (CSM Bucuresti)
10 Filip Lazar (St. Jean D'Angely)
11 Ionut Dumitru (Steaua)
12 Florin Vlaicu (Farul Constanta)
13 Catalin Robert Dascalu (Steaua)
14 Stephen Hihetah (Baia Mare)
15 Gabriel Conache (RCM Timisoara)

16 Otar Turashvili (Farul Constanta)
17 Horatiu Pungea (Scarlets)
18 Valentin Poparlan (RCM Timisoara)
19 Viorel Lucaci (Steaua)
20 Csaba Gal (Baia Mare)
21 Valentin Ivan (CSM Bucuresti)
22 Andrei Ilie (Farul Constanta)

Russia
1 Grigory Tsnobiladze
2 Valery Tsnobiladze
3 Andrey Igretsov
4 Alexander Voytov (C)
5 Artem Fatakhov
6 Pavel Butenko
7 Andrey Temnov
8 Victor Gresev
9 Alexander Ianiushkin
10 Ramil Gaysin
11 Vladimir Ostroushko
12 Alexey Makovetskiy
13 Dmitry Gerasimov
14 Mikhail Babaev
15 Igor Klyuchnikov

16 Stanislav Selskiy
17 Alexander Bezverkhov
18 Denis Antonov
19 Evgeny Matveev
20 Igor Galinovskiy
21 Alexey Shcherban
22 Sergey Ianiushkin