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Ireland Squad Named for RWC Warm Up against Scotland
7 August 2007, 1:00 pm
By Stacey Ferguson
Ireland Coach Eddie O'Sullivan has named the Ireland team to play Scotland in the first of two warm up games in preparation for the Rugby World Cup. 7 Ulster players will start in the match.
The match will kick off at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh at 2.30pm this Saturday (11th August)

The starting squad is as follows-

15 - Geordan Murphy                   Leicester 

14 - Brian Carney                         Clonakilty/Munster 

13 - Brian O'Driscoll Captain         UCD/Leinster 

12 - Gavin Duffy                           Galwegians/Connacht

11 - Tommy Bowe                    Belfast Harlequins/Ulster

10 - Paddy Wallace                  Ballymena/Ulster 

9 - Isaac Boss                            Ballymena/Ulster 

1 - Bryan Young                        Ballymena/Ulster 

2 - Jerry Flannery                         Shannon/Munster 

3 - Simon Best                           Belfast Harlequins/Ulster

4 - Malcolm O'Kelly                         St.Mary's College/Leinster  

5 - Paul O'Connell                          Young Munster/Munster

6 - Neil Best                                 Belfast Harlequins/Ulster

7 - Stephen Ferris                     Dungannon/Ulster

8 - Jamie Heaslip                            Clontarf/Leinster

Ulster captain Rory Best has also been named to feature as a replacement in the match. 

Replacements:

16 - Rory Best                         Belfast Harlequins/Ulster

17 - John Hayes                         Bruff/Munster                                  

18 - Alan Quinlan                        Shannon/Munster                      

19 - Keith Gleeson                      St.Mary's College/Leinster          

20 - Eoin Reddan                        Wasps       

21 - Ronan O'Gara                      Cork Constitution/Munster      

22 - Shane Horgan                      Lansdowne/Leinster    

 

The Scotland squad starting on the 11th of August is as follows-

Rory Lamont (Sale Sharks); Sean Lamont (Northampton Saints); Rob Dewey; Andrew Henderson (Glasgow Warriors); Simon Webster (Edinburgh Rugby); Chris Paterson (Gloucester); Mike Blair (Edinburgh Rugby); Allan Jacobsen (Edinburgh Rugby); Ross Ford (Glasgow Warriors); Euan Murray (Northampton Saints); Nathan Hines (Perpignan); Jim Hamilton (Leicester Tigers); Jason White (Sale Sharks) capt; Simon Taylor (Stade Francais); Allister Hogg (Edinburgh Rugby)

Replacements:
Fergus Thomson (Glasgow Warriors); Craig Smith (Edinburgh Rugby); Scott MacLeod (Llanelli Scarlets); Kelly Brown (Glasgow Warriors); Chris Cusiter (Perpignan); Dan Parks (Glasgow Warriors); Hugo Southwell (Edinburgh Rugby)

There will be coverage of this match starting at 2.10pm on BBC 1.