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England Team: Ben Foden; Chris Ashton; Brad Barritt, Owen Farrell, David Strettle; Charlie Hodgson; Ben Youngs; Alex Corbisiero, Dylan Hartley, Dan Cole; Mouritz Botha, Tom Palmer; Tom Croft, Chris Robshaw (captain), Phil Dowson. Replacements: Rob Webber, Matt Stevens, Geoff Parling, Ben...

France 40 Italy 10 Scotland 18 England 15 Ireland 26 Wales 16

Yep Lee's right he played 13 against Russia in the WC pool too.

I think the last time he played 13 for Ireland was the WC warm up game v England. He made if debut at FB and most of his recent caps have been on the wing simple due to the fact that BOD was always played injured or not. There's plenty of argument about where his best position is, some say wing...

If France go with more of a development squad for their summer tour then both will probably see the writing on the wall and call it a day.

Henry said after the WC that he was interested in being involved with a 6Ns team for a year or two and heavily hinted that England was his first perference. But at the same time he said he had commitments to return to NZ. The next head coach England apoint would expected to take them through the...

Yes consistency is one of Ireland's biggest problems and has stoped a very talented group of players from relaising their potential. I just hope this year any poor winning performances aren't excused by the old building momentum line.

Delighted Fofana is getting a start he could be one of the sensations of this years 6Ns if he replicates his club form.

Qwerty from that squad and given the conservative selection policy I'd expect the 22 to look something like this: 1. Cian Healy 2. Rory Best 3. Mike Ross 4. Donncha O'Callaghan 5. Paul O'Connell 6. Stephen Ferris 7. Sean O'Brien 8. Jamie Heaslip 9. Connor Murray 10. Jonathan Seton 11. Keith...

IRELAND Training Squad (v Wales, 2012 RBS 6 Nations): Rory Best (Banbridge/Ulster) Tommy Bowe (Ospreys) Tom Court (Malone/Ulster) Sean Cronin (St. Mary's College/Leinster) Gordon D'Arcy (Lansdowne/Leinster) Keith Earls (Young Munster/Munster) Stephen Ferris (Dungannon/Ulster) Cian Healy...

Chris Robshaw has been appointed England captain for their 1st two games against Scotland & Italy.

Money can be a motivating factor for some people to do better. But I don't think it's a demotivational factor, not directly at least. Those players that just turn up for the pay cheque would do that if it was £100 or £10,000. I think where it does have an effect is the more some players receive...

Armitage has been booted out of the England Saxons squad due to being arrested with regard to an assault on Saturday night/Sunday morning. Good to see Lancaster still taking quick and decisive disciplinary action. It's going to take him a while to change the culture left after MJ and with only...

One thing a definitely required of a captain in any rugby team is that he should be an automatic pick if he wasn't the captain. Many teams lose out by appointing someone captain who has all the other attributes for it but he's not the 1st choice for his position.

Thanks Moses this will come in very handy. This year will be my first year following Super rugby. I've watched lots of Super rugby in the past as Sky Sports always show the games, but when I've watched it was to see the game in issolation. Now this year I intend to follow the same way I do HEC...

That's sad Spoony as I think that SA with a decent coach and a less political approach to picking coaches overall would consistantly be vieing with NZ for no. 1 spot.

The make up of the Welsh 2nd row will also be affect the scrum with both Wyn Jones and Charteris out and talk of playing a backrow in the 2nd row. The opening game in a 6Ns is always important but I think for both Wales and Ireland it's doubly so. I think the winner of this one will be France's...

I'm starting to think that kama suthra book you have isn't a physio's handbook.

I think scoring as-is is fine. But still interested to see how it works out. As Lee said anything that relies upon top tier refs stopping players cynically giving away penalties by issuing cards or penalty tries is already on shaky ground. Look at how much uproar there was in the WC when...

Also think France are the favourites this year. Wales have been hit by injury and players going off the boil in the last few weeks, but a win in Dublin on the opening weekend could spark them back into form. Ireland are going pretty much with their WC squad. England are completely rebuilding...