{"id":674536,"date":"2026-11-04T08:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T08:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674536\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T08:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T08:48:11","slug":"the-ireland-rugby-team-balls-ie-readers-want-to-see-play-argentina-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/674536\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ireland Rugby Team Balls.ie Readers Want To See Play Argentina On Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland start their November international window on Friday against Argentina at the Aviva. Ireland arrive into the Nations Championship with a settled squad but Andy Farrell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/rugby\/5-ireland-headaches-andy-farrell-argentina-666527\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">does have a few selection headaches<\/a> before him today.<\/p>\n<p>We asked Balls.ie readers this week who they would pick if they were coaching Ireland..<\/p>\n<p>Over 500 readers selected their team to play the Pumas on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\n        Recommended\n    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a :href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/rugby\/article.url\" :title=\"article.title\" :aria-label=\"article.title\" class=\"not-prose col-span-2 md:col-span-1 ga-event\" data-category=\"Recommended Article Tracker\" data-action=\"click\" :data-label=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/rugby\/article.url\" :data-value=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/rugby\/article.url\"><\/p>\n<p>                                            <img class=\"aspect-video\" width=\"130\" height=\"73\" :src=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/rugby\/article.image\" :alt=\"'Image for: ' + article.title\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The likes of Hugo Keenan, Jameson Gibson-Park, Andrew Porter and Dan Sheehan were near unanimous selections.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the majority of readers voted to see Ciar\u00e1n Frawley play at outhalf. Sam Prendergast meanwhile brought in 40% of the outhalf votes.<\/p>\n<p>Balls readers would also like to see Ryan Baird to start in the backrow with Tadhg Beirne in the second row beside Joe McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find the team Balls readers picked below (with the percentage of their vote beside their name)<\/p>\n<p>The Ireland team Balls.ie readers wants to start the Argentina game<br \/>\n15. Hugo Keenan (91%)<br \/>\n14. Mack Hansen &#8211; (75%)<br \/>\n13. Jamie Osborne (44%)<br \/>\n12. Stu McCloskey (91%)<br \/>\n11. Robert Baloucoune &#8211; (79%)<br \/>\n10. Ciaran Frawley &#8211; (56%)<br \/>\n9. Jameson Gibson-Park &#8211; (86%)<br \/>\n1. Andrew Porter &#8211; (83%)<br \/>\n2. Dan Sheehan &#8211; (91%)<br \/>\n3. Tadhg Furlong &#8211; (69%)<br \/>\n4. Joe McCarthy &#8211; (86%)<br \/>\n5. Tadhg Beirne &#8211; (60%)<br \/>\n6. Ryan Baird &#8211; (40%)<br \/>\n7. Josh van der Flier &#8211; (79%)\u00a0<br \/>\n8. Sean Jansen &#8211; (67%)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the latest on the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/rugby\/andy-farrell-names-ireland-rugby-team-argentina-666599\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Farrell is expected to select<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland start their November international window on Friday against Argentina at the Aviva. Ireland arrive into the Nations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,1449,43],"class_list":["post-674536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-rugby","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}