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Published 08:29 30 Sept 2023 BST
Updated 22:19 2 Oct 2023 BST
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Ireland players, from left, Josh van der Flier, James Lowe, Caelan Doris, Andrew Porter and Bundee Aki. (Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile)[/caption]
"You look at how well Conor Murray played when he came on [against South Africa]. Does he start? There are many different arguments for almost every player, and it's hard to pick that [23] but I do think it's important that lads are getting enough match time that if they are asked to come on very early on, hopefully, in a quarter final that they don't gas themselves. You need that match fitness, particularly across those front row guys, so that they are ready to step up. "You'd imagine that with Rónan Kelleher, now matter how well he played [against South Africa], Dan Sheehan was probably going to start against Scotland anyway... he needs to get his match fitness up to, in his position, a good 60 minutes."Aside from Jack Conan and Jimmy O'Brien, the only other player not to have World Cup minutes is Stuart McCloskey. The Ulster centre had started seven out of nine Tests, ahead of the England match in the RWC warm-ups, and could definitely do a job if called upon.
15. Hugo Keenan 14. Mack Hansen 13. Robbie Henshaw 12. Bundee Aki 11. James Lowe 10. Johnny Sexton 9. Jamison Gibson-Park 1. Andrew Porter 2.Dan Sheehan 3. Finlay Bealham 4. Tadhg Beirne 5. James Ryan 6. Peter O’Mahony 7. Josh van der Flier 8. Jack Conan Replacements: Rónan Kelleher, David Kilcoyne, Tadhg Furlong, Iain Henderson, Caelan Doris, Conor Murray, Jack Crowley, Jimmy O'Brien.Andy Farrell will officially announce his Ireland team on Thursday afternoon.
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