An injury to fly-half Joey Carbery, who had two kicks charged down for tries, interrupted a win for Ireland in a Test that showed the gap that still exists between the haves and have-nots of rugby. Denny Solomona’s late
Brett Hull Authentic Jersey try secures thrilling win for England over Argentina Read more In truth, the USA have more than they once did: John Mitchell’s Eagles were well drilled and well lead by two overseas pros: Sale fly-half AJ MacGinty and New Zealander Tony Lamborn on the openside flank. Still, a lack of time together and semi-pros in key positions fed into familiar problems: a scrum that struggled, a defensive line that ran ragged a little too soon. Joe Schmidt’s Ireland, with two Lions starting and another on the bench, made holes and ran through them all game. “Joey just sprained his ankle a bit,” said Schmidt. “We thought it pertinent to get him off. We don’t know what the story is yet. It hasn’t swelled too much but it was a bit tender. We’ll see how it settles and get a scan either here or once we arrive in Tokyo.” Mitchell, a former All Blacks head coach, will leave the Eagles at the end of their summer series, which continues against Georgia next week and in a two-legged World Cup qualifier with Canada. “We were outclassed today,” he said. “We’re disappointed, defensively we had some issues with our setting which cost us.” Mitchell also said he didn’t expect his first-choice scrum to “lose inches”, which contributed to Ireland “finding the front 50 very easy”. In any event, Ireland had much more strength, even though they were without 11 British and Irish Lions, currently touring New Zealand. For one thing they had Keith Earls, the Munster wing who toured South Africa with the 2009 Lions. Whatever the New Jersey equivalent of the screaming ab-dabs might be, the Americans got them when Earls was carrying
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http://www.officialwinnipegjets.com/Adidas-Dale-Hawerchuk-Jersey it stayed to the half. The first try of the second period took only three minutes, No8 Jack Conan touching down from a five-metre scrum drive. Carbery converted. And then there was a second charge-down of the Irish No10, this time by the Cork-born flanker John Quill. Carbery, Schmidt said with a grin, will learn from the experience. The US then had their best spell of the game, and the roar for what might’ve been a third home try shook the stands … for a few seconds or so. Alas, replacement prop Paddy Ryan – Irish-born, employed in the Premiership with Newcastle – threw forward a long pass after a fine break from the wing Mike Te’o. Iosefo’s finish was in vain. Gregor Townsend’s Scotland reign starts with 34-13 win over Italy in Singapore Read more Ryan Matyas did get over on 54 minutes for the Eagles’ third, this time patient phase play opening a half-gap. Perhaps stung, a little, Ireland brought on the Munster wing Simon Zebo, a Lion in Australia four years ago. Although the US scrambling defense was good, another Earls break put the substitute lock James Ryan over and replacement scrum-half Luke McGrath also scored as legs tired. The final try came from a high kick to Stockdale’s wing, where the undersized Te’o was predictably
Amos Youth Jersey outjumped. Zebo collected the loose ball to score. Advertisement On a hot, sapping evening, both teams earned their applause. After five minutes of the game, though, the same fans offered a standing ovation in honor of Robert Paylor, a lock from the University of California, Berkeley who suffered a catastrophic injury in the Varsity Cup final against Arkansas State last month. Paylor is now in rehab; a GoFundMe campaign aims to raise $1m to aid his recovery. USA: B Cima; M Te’o, R Matyas, M Brache (W Magie, 22-35; B Campbell, 65), M Iosefo (S Davies, 50); AJ MacGinty, N Augspurger (capt); B Tarr (J Taufete’e, 40), P Malcolm (J Hilterbrand, 40), C Baumann (P Ryan, 46), N Brakeley, N Civetta (M Jensen, 46), J Quill, T Lamborn, D Tameilau (A Durutalo, 40). Tries Civetta, Quill, Matyas. Cons MacGinty 2. Ireland: T O’Halloran (D Leavy, 72); K Earls, G Ringrose, L Marshall (R Scannell, 40) J Stockdale; J Carbery (S Zebo, 50), K Marmion (L McGrath, 61); C Healy (D Kilcoyne, 50), N Scannell (D Heffernan, 50), John Ryan (A Porter, 50), Q Roux (James Ryan, 61), D Toner, R Ruddock (capt), J van der Flier, J Conan
