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Official team photos from the World Cup!

Day 3 started with a nice lie in and a run out against Fiji in the midday sun. Much like the Australian game yesterday this is also what the World Cup is about – the chance to play against countries from the other side of the world that have put in tremendous effort and sacrifice to be here. Fiji W35s are very much a developing squad in terms of Touch, but you can see the proud and typically Fijian style of rugby, looking for offloads, not giving an inch in contact and always smiling 🙂 It was a well disciplined first half with good structure and patterns. Attention to detail did falter a bit in the second half but we ...

Two tough, contrasting days into the World Cup and certainly learning a lot! Day 1 was pretty dull, wet and overcast. In the first match we never recovered from a poor slow start as slippery balls and opening day nerves got the better of us, going down 7-3 in the end. Emer, Anthea (although it’s been credited to Dawn!) and Michelle got the scores – a nice way for Emer to mark her 50th cap 🙂 Next up was england and going down 11-1 is probably in line with our expectations. Again the wet conditions didn’t help the completion rate, but we would have liked to have had more than Maria’s try to show for our efforts. Day 2 saw ...

Team Ireland got together at DLSP yesterday for our squad presentation day. With the playing gear scheduled to arrive this week it was a lot more efficient than previous events 🙂 and provided a great opportunity for the seven squads, friends and family to get together and acknowledge the achievements of all involved. Best of luck to everyone involved in the tournament, but especially this lovely lot: Can’t think of a suitable Swifty quote so I’ll go with Shania (should make more sense in a couple of weeks!) Let’s go girls!  

It’s all getting very real now and the dates are set for destiny to unfold! The pic below shows our fixtures, but more can be found on the FIT website, in particular at this link   Keep an eye open on FIT and Social Media for live stream links, at present it doesn’t look like many of our games will be broadcasted on FIT, but you will be able to check in for score updates. Hopefully we will record most of the games ourselves and post on YouTube when we can, check back here to see if there are any links to re-live the action.  

We are delighted to share the official squad announcement for the upcoming Touch World Cup with you. A massive heartfelt congrats to all those below, but also the countless others that have helped along the way to grow this area of the game. I know how hard it is to miss out on tournaments, but we have others coming up and I can’t wait to see us field both a 35s and a 40s at events soon and am excited by the demand for place that we will have. Best of luck to those competing and keep the faith and love all xoxo COYGIG!