14 awesome photos that show Ireland’s pride at the Rugby World Cup

Nathan White has claimed that Ireland will be punished for a complacent approach in their World Cup opener against Canada.

Kieran Crowley has downplayed any giant-killing talk ahead of Canada’s World Cup opener against Ireland.

“They were in Canada, then they suddenly got a chance in a daily, professional training environment and you can see the strides they have made”.

His squad, who attended their World Cup welcome ceremony at Brangwyn Hall in Swansea yesterday, do have a number of players who are familiar to fans of the PRO12 and European rugby. “We have to bring a very good game to the park”, the Connacht prop told reporters.

“For me personally, if I get onto the field it would be my fourth cap”.

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New Zealand-born front-rower White became Ireland’s third oldest debutant of all time in the 28-22 warm-up Test victory over Scotland in Dublin last month.

Canada’s influential flanker Tyler Ardron now looks set to beat his knee injury in time to face Ireland this weekend.

The 34-year-old remains proud to have forged a Test career let alone forced his way into Ireland’s World Cup squad.

Canada have slipped to 18th in the world standings in recent times, and Crowley admitted a sticky World Cup campaign could put his job on the line. With Ireland, we’re very lucky to have Jack and Cian who are both fantastic looseheads, and you saw Jack really coming to the fore in the last Six Nations.

The Canucks have featured at every edition of the tournament but without a pro domestic set-up Crowley – the former All Black who was part of the 1987 squad that won the inaugural World Cup – fears that the country he has led for seven years could fall behind.

“You’d want at the end of it to say that we played to our potential”.

“So it’s a huge honour to be able to represent Ireland now, there’s a lot of expectation, I’ll do my job the best I can and hopefully we can make people happy”.