Irish Provincial Team of the HEC Group Stages

... because we don't argue enough already.

Do any Leinster back-rowers deserve to feature? Which outside centre? Who partners POC - Ryan, Toner, Tuohy or McCarthy?

Include NIQ players or not.

Healy - Best - Afoa
POC - Toner
Ferris - Coughlan - POM
Pienaar - Sexton
Trimble - McFadden - Cave - Fitzgerald
Kearney

Cronin - Court - Botha - Muller - Muldoon- Murray - ROG - Zebo

Apart from just saying,

Connacht!

I'd have Henry in there and Muller in the second row ahead of Toner even though he plays 4 (does it really matter in the second row?).

And we're short a prop on the bench, ?Court?

Oh yeah, my head is in international mode, forgot the extra prop.
Since we don’t need another TH and the Munster scrum just gave up 2 penalty tries Court is the only one left

I’ve made another change based on your last post MrsP.

Gee this is a hard one! I'll go for:

Healy- Cronin - Afoa
POC - Ryan
Ferris- Coughlan- Ronan
Pienaar - O'Gara
Mafi - Cave
Zebo - Kearney - Nacewa

Bench: Botha, Best, Muller, Henry, Boss , Madigan, Trimble

Honorable mentions to: Heaslip, Wannenburg, Sexton, P. Marshall, Tuohy, Muldoon, Toner, O'Brien, O'Mahoney, O'Malley, Murray, Griffin, O'Hallaran, P Wallace and Fitzgerald

I think Rodders has it spot on. It grieves me to praise Niall Ronan though. I'd probably have Fitzgerald over Nacewa.

Stag I could have gone for any number of combinations...its a great place to be with so many players playing so well across the four provinces.

I quite like rodders team but my back row would be Ferris, Henry and POM. Could have included Heaslip goo but I think those three have been excellent.

I think I'd go with Trimble rather than Zebo, and probably Henry and POM in the back-row.

I am encouraged by the knd of "second tiers" of players performing - behind Ferris, O'Brien and Heaslip there's O'Mahony, Henry, Muldoon and Ronan; behind (for some reason) DOC and Ryan there's Tuohy, and Toner. Cave, Griffin, Gilroy, Madigan - it all looks pretty healthy.