England team to face Ireland:
Daly; May, Slade, Tuilagi, Nowell; Farrell, B Youngs; M Vunipola, George, Sinckler, Itoje, Kruis, Wilson, T Curry, B Vunipola.
Replacements: Cowan-Dickie, Genge, Williams, Lawes, Hughes, Robson, Ford, Ashton
Thats a strong team facing us tomorrow. Can see Jones old trick of sending Tuilagi and Billy Vunipola down Sexton's channel. I can see either one of those bursting through and offloading to Nowell to score from 40 out, plus Daly's boot from 55 meters out will cost us. We're notoriously slow starters in this comp too. So essentially I'm not as confident as I thought I would be because unlike every other team the only way is down...*
The plus for me is we are hard to beat, Ben Youngs and a backline that hasn't played together before.
Ireland 15 England 12.
* The nineties destroyed my optimism.