John O’Sullivan

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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · Who to look out for in Ireland U20s at the World Cup · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah, no, Sammy Arnold was around that setup as well.

So he was injured for the World Cup and Ireland, sorry, for those that don't know or don't remember, Ireland got to the final and they were beaten by England.

Harry Malander, Jim Malander's son, who used to coach Northampton Saints, he was their kind of out half and...

and Talisman, a brilliant young at-half who didn't quite kick on in the way that he was expected to.

But it was a very good England team.

Ireland, by the time they got to the final, had picked up a lot of injuries to some key players.

So just to also put it in context, Ireland opened their pool match against Wales, who were Grand Slam champions, and beat them 26-25.

They then beat New Zealand,

I think they played Georgia in the third pool match.

They beat Argentina after that.

And then in a final, they beat Argentina in a semi-final.

And then the final, they came up short against England.

I think they scored a couple of brilliant tries towards the end of the match, but the game was done and dusted by halftime nearly in that game or early in the second half.

So it was a very good England side as well.

They have Argentina and the USA.

Yeah, I think that you've summed it up in a sentence.

I think the first game will set a pathway that will either lead towards a semi-final or give them a chance of making a semi-final, or it will kind of make it very difficult for them to get to the business end of the tournament, if you like, in getting one of the top four places.

So it's three pool winners and the best runner-up.

across the three pools make the semi-finals and everybody else is ranked all the way down and you play matches so you play five matches in total in the tournament three pool matches and then the crossover matches depending on how you fare in the pool stages I think that there are better quality players in this group than there were last year in general terms and I think that they would

fancy their chances of doing well.

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