thats a strange team thats picked i think. Not sure how eric picks his team. I think he wants to keep the squad happy more so than picking on form. If it was form then ray and jarvis would start plus p o d gave us faster ball when he replaced frank-

Very tough on Jarvis, bet he would love to start against his old teammates.

Team's out -

15 Gavin Duffy (C)
14 Brian Tuohy
13 Eoin Griffin
12 Henry Fa'afili
11 Tiernan O'Halloran
10 Niall O'Connor
9 Frank Murphy
1 Brett Wilkinson
2 Ethienne Reynecke
3 Dylan Rogers
4 Michael Swift
5 Mike McCarthy
6 TJ Anderson
7 Johnny O'Connor
8 John Muldoon

16 Adrian Flavin
17 Ronan Loughney
18 Stewart Maguire
19 Dave Gannon
20 Ray Ofisa
21 Paul O'Donohoe
22 Matthew Jarvis
23 James Loxton

Does anyone know if Rodney is injured/rested/dropped?

Ditto Mark McCrea?

Who said that??

Obviously not as confused as I!

I must admit I was slightly confused.

Doh!

They've dealt with Leinster and Ulster comfortably, I think this will be a game too far. LBP not impossible though, but we'll miss George going head to head with Rush.

Need to stay healthy for the RDS game, that's one we can realistically target.

Shame on the TV people for not broadcasting a top-of-the-table clash, though  :

Not til the end of October 

They've dealt with Leinster and Ulster comfortably, I think this will be a game too far. LBP not impossible though, but we'll miss George going head to head with Rush.

Need to stay healthy for the RDS game, that's one we can realistically target.

Shame on the TV people for not broadcasting a top-of-the-table clash, though  :

I'm not expecting us to get anything from this game unfortunately.
I'd have the Ospreys up there with Leinster and Munster, as the best teams in the Pro12.

I'll take a result that included no injuries, and no embarrassement

Agree... Happy enough to have inexperienced refs over biased experienced ones.

Our worst treatment in games Ireland has always been at the hands of IRFU refs (Fitzgibbon, McDowell, Clancy, Lewis and Rolland in that order for me), they have all done for us against Irish opponents in Ireland, and then the Scots referees have taken special care of business for us on the road.....

Referee for the match will be... Stefano Penne from Italy, who will take charge of his 6th competition game.  :'(

That's three Italian refs in the first 5 matches. I've been keeping a running total of the refs assigned to each match and with the list already out for next week it looks like this

Team	Average ref experience (games)
Ulster	22
Leinster	18
Blues	17
Munster	17
Dragons	16
Edinburgh	15
Ospreys	14
Scarlets	13
Aironi	11
Glasgow	9
Treviso	8
Connacht	6

Aironi get a bit of a bump after last weeks match was refereed by Peter (ahem) Allan, who has 44 games experience. (But he hides it well)

We've had one single game where the refs experience has reached double digits, contrast that to Munster who've had that pleasure 4 times out of 5.

I'm going to keep this going through the season to see if it balances out, but if it doesn't then I think the branch have grounds for making an unholy racket to ensure a level playing field for all involved.

Top work.

Perhaps a Ref-Watch sticky is in order?

Perhaps

But can't see us ever loving him. Last couple of visits think he came in the away bus and was relying on them for a lift home.

Rolland is an arrogant prick who thinks he's too good to be reffing in the Sportsground. I hope he never graces our turf again

Ah, we've got a new stand now, he might grow to love us 

Referee for the match will be... Stefano Penne from Italy, who will take charge of his 6th competition game.  :'(

That's three Italian refs in the first 5 matches. I've been keeping a running total of the refs assigned to each match and with the list already out for next week it looks like this

Team	Average ref experience (games)
Ulster	22
Leinster	18
Blues	17
Munster	17
Dragons	16
Edinburgh	15
Ospreys	14
Scarlets	13
Aironi	11
Glasgow	9
Treviso	8
Connacht	6

Aironi get a bit of a bump after last weeks match was refereed by Peter (ahem) Allan, who has 44 games experience. (But he hides it well)

We've had one single game where the refs experience has reached double digits, contrast that to Munster who've had that pleasure 4 times out of 5.

I'm going to keep this going through the season to see if it balances out, but if it doesn't then I think the branch have grounds for making an unholy racket to ensure a level playing field for all involved.

Impressive work Stato!!