Ireland Vs England - all you need to know for the weekend

[Thequeerone]

Live match updates at

http://www.irishrugby.ie/

The Road to the 6 nations championship continues as follows:

Sat 24th Feb 07 17:30 Ireland v England Croke Park

Sat 10th Mar 07 13:30 Scotland v Ireland Murrayfield

Sat 17th Mar 07 14:30 Italy v Ireland Stadio Flaminio

The teams:
Ireland

O'Driscoll is back - missed the French game because of hamstring
other injury worries possible that Stringer still out with a hand injury - able replacement in the form of Iasic Boss

Ireland:

15-Girvan Dempsey; 14-Shane Horgan, 13-Brian O'Driscoll (Captain), 12-Gordon D'Arcy, 11-Denis Hickie; 10-Ronan O'Gara, 9-(to be named); 8-Denis Leamy, 7-David Wallace, 6-Simon Easterby, 5-Paul O'Connell, 4-Donncha O'Callaghan, 3-John Hayes, 2-Rory Best, 1-Marcus Horan

Reserves:

16-Jerry Flannery, 17-Simon Best, 18-Mick O'Driscoll, 19-Neil Best, 20-Isaac Boss or Eoin Reddan, 21-Paddy Wallace, 22-Andrew Trimble.

(Trimble a sub - there's some depth now !!!!!)

English Team
Had a look can't find a list - so please post a list if you see one

other fixtures this weekend
SCOTLAND Vs. ITALY 15:00 Murrayfield
IRELAND Vs. ENGLAND 17:30 Dublin (Croke Park)
FRANCE Vs. WALES 20:00 Stade de France

Table of Results
RBS Six Nations Table
11 February 2007
Team
P PD PTS
1 France 2 39 4
2 England 2 35 4
3 Ireland 2 7 2
4 Scotland 2 -10 2
5 Wales 2 -22 0
6 Italy 2 -49 0

[Sagerian]

Why is Trimble on the bench? He's an awesome talent.

Can't wait to watch this one, been looking foward to it for ages.

[Thequeerone]

Jonny Rested from Training because he is BRUISED !!!!!!!!!

22 February 2007
Jason Robinson (Sale Sharks) has made a good initial recovery from the neck injury he sustained in England training yesterday.

Jason will travel with the team to Dublin and receive on-going treatment for his injury before a final decision is made on whether he will start in the RBS 6 Nations match against Ireland on Saturday.

David Strettle (NEC Harlequins) will remain with the squad and travel with them as precautionary cover.

The England Coaches and medical team also decided to rest Jonny Wilkinson (Newcastle Falcons) from training today because of concerns regarding the bumps and bruises he had last week and some tightness to his right hamstring. Jonny will be assessed again tomorrow by the medical team. Mike Catt (London Irish) will also fly out with the team today as precautionary cover.

England Head Coach, Brian Ashton said “There will be no decisions on Jason and Jonny for at least another 24 hours when we will assess the situation again.”

England Team

15 Olly Morgan (Gloucester Rugby)
14 Josh Lewsey (London Wasps)
13 Mike Tindall (Gloucester Rugby
12 Andy Farrell (Saracens
11 Jason Robinson (Sale Sharks
10 Jonny Wilkinson (Newcastle Falcons)
9 Harry Ellis (Leicester Tigers)
1 Perry Freshwater (Perpignan
2 George Chuter (Leicester Tigers
3 Phil Vickery (capt, London Wasps)
4 Louis Deacon (Leicester Tigers)
5 Danny Grewcock (Bath Rugby)
6 Joe Worsley (London Wasps)
7 Magnus Lund (Sale Sharks)
8 Martin Corry (Leicester Tigers)

Replacements
16 Lee Mears (Bath Rugby)
17 Julian White (Leicester Tigers)
18 Tom Palmer (London Wasps)
19 Tom Rees (London Wasps)
20 Shaun Perry (Bristol Rugby)
21 Toby Flood (Newcastle Falcons)
22 Mat Tait (Newcastle Falcons)