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Nine-try Ireland account for USA
By Sacha Pisani
A rampant Ireland scored nine tries in a comprehensive 55-19 victory over the United States in New Jersey.
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Ireland kicked off their tour in style Saturday thanks to Keith Earls’ first-half double at Red Bull Arena.
Debutants Jacob Stockdale and James Ryan ran in tries in a youthful side, while Niall Scannell, Kieran Marmion, Jack Conan, Luke McGrath and Simon Zebo were also on the scoresheet for Ireland, who led 29-7 at half-time.
It took Ireland only three minutes to hit the front after Tiernan O’Halloran played in Earls in the left corner, though Joey Carbery was unable to convert.
FT: @USARugby 19 @IrishRugby 55 #TeamOfUs 9 tries and 5 new caps. pic.twitter.com/Fr1zF9cSWJ
— Irish Rugby (@IrishRugby) June 10, 2017
Stockdale capped his international bow with a try as he raced through to score and Garry Ringrose added the extras for a 12-0 lead.
Earls was at it again, while Scannell and Marmion all crossed over before the interval after Nick Civetta gave the Americans something to cheer about.
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Civetta blocked down a Carbery chip to claim an easy five-pointer in front of the posts.
Carbery’s difficult day continued in the second half after he was charged down by John Quill, while Ryan Matyas reduced the deficit to 36-19.
The result, however, was never in doubt as Conan, McGrath, Ryan and Zebo crossed over.
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Hope now we can get some clarity about next season and beyond in terms of format. Presently between the Prem, the Champ and the 2 clubs being rebuilt we have 25 teams, but it sounds like the long term plan is 2 professional divisions of 10 clubs each. So 5 have to go. I'm curious to see how they solve for that. Simplest way I suppose would be 11 team Prem, 14 team Champ, 1 relegated from the Prem, 5 relegated from the Champ with no one promoted. Issue with that is, Ealing is probably suing to come up, and also I feel like if they are going to ring-fence below the Champ, I'd imagine the team who go down, they'd want to base that on things like financial prospects and the size of their ground rather than just who has a bad run of form next season.
Go to commentssounds like BS to me but he sure knows more about rugby than I.
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