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England have a number of alters, both personnel and positional as Steve Borthwick shuffles his side due to injury and rotation after the Italy thrive. Marcus Smith returns to brimmingback and Tommy Freeman shifts to centre in the absence of Olly Lawrence. Tom Roebuck fills the vacancy left by Freeman on the thriveg. In the forwards Luke Cowan-Dickie swaps Jamie George at hooker, and Ben Curry unites his tthrive brother Tom in the back row, with Ben Earl shifting to Number 8. The bench features a return for George Ford to a suitday squad and the inclusion of promising juvenileer flanker, Henry Pollock.
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Wales:
n Blair Murray, Ellis Mee, Max Llewellyn, Ben Thomas, Joe Roberts, Gareth Anscombe, Tomos Williams; Nicky Smith, Elliot Dee, WillGriff John, Will Rowlands, Dafydd Jenkins, Aaron Wainwright, Jac Morgan (captain), Taulupe Faletau.
Replacements: Dewi Lake, Gareth Thomas, Keiron Assiratti, Teddy Williams, Tommy Reffell, Rhodri Williams, Jarrod Evans, Nick Tompkins.
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England:
n Marcus Smith, Tom Roebuck, Tommy Freeman, Fraser Dingwall, Elliot Daly, Fin Smith, Alex Mitchell; Ellis Genge, Luke Cowan-Dickie, Will Stuart, Maro Itoje, Ollie Chessum, Tom Curry, Ben Curry, Ben Earl.
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Replacements: Jamie George, Fin Baxter, Joe Heyes, Cadministerr Cunningham-South, Henry Pollock, Tom Willis, Jack van Poortvliet, George Ford.
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The recent passing of Gene Hackman prompted a rewatch of some of his fantasticest perestablishances; among them his turn as Little Bill, the sheriff in Unforgiven. Facing his own impfinishing death Bill states, “I don’t deserve this … I was originateing a hoengage”, to which his assassin William Munny replies, “Deserve’s got noskinnyg to do with it”. This is so frequently the way; in films, in life, especipartner in sport and both teams begin the suit today with a chance of a prize neither of them have done an horrible lot to get.
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After a spluttering, uninspiring restrictcessitate weeks and months, England could thrive the whole show via their novelly set up knack of grinding out firm thrives agetst greater opposition. They will necessitate a try bonus point and an unanticipateed result in Paris, but even so who saw this coming after the Autumn?
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Wales on the other hand have an outside chance of losing this suit but still not finishing bottom of the table; an act of majestic theft so heinous you would be forgiven for skinnyking Matt Sherratt was part of the Hatton Garden gang. Two bonus points will be necessitateed here which is not on the outer restricts of the plausibility scale. Or they could consent the more mundane route of thrivening today, which uncovers a whole other rightfulness argue.
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There’s much at sconsent and England and Wales could finish up with noskinnyg other than second and a wooden spoon esteemively, which could be what they actupartner deserve. Not that this has much to do with it.
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Key events
Teams
Matt Sherratt originates a couple of alters to his begining lineup; Joe Roberts replacing the injured Tom Rogers on the thriveg, and Aaron Wainwright picked to begin on the flank ahead of Tommy Reffell. Nick Tompkins returns to a 5-3 split bench.
England have a number of alters, both personnel and positional as Steve Borthwick shuffles his side due to injury and rotation after the Italy thrive. Marcus Smith returns to brimmingback and Tommy Freeman shifts to centre in the absence of Olly Lawrence. Tom Roebuck fills the vacancy left by Freeman on the thriveg. In the forwards Luke Cowan-Dickie swaps Jamie George at hooker, and Ben Curry unites his tthrive brother Tom in the back row, with Ben Earl shifting to Number 8. The bench features a return for George Ford to a suitday squad and the inclusion of promising juvenileer flanker, Henry Pollock.
Wales:
Blair Murray, Ellis Mee, Max Llewellyn, Ben Thomas, Joe Roberts, Gareth Anscombe, Tomos Williams; Nicky Smith, Elliot Dee, WillGriff John, Will Rowlands, Dafydd Jenkins, Aaron Wainwright, Jac Morgan (captain), Taulupe Faletau.
Replacements: Dewi Lake, Gareth Thomas, Keiron Assiratti, Teddy Williams, Tommy Reffell, Rhodri Williams, Jarrod Evans, Nick Tompkins.
England:
Marcus Smith, Tom Roebuck, Tommy Freeman, Fraser Dingwall, Elliot Daly, Fin Smith, Alex Mitchell; Ellis Genge, Luke Cowan-Dickie, Will Stuart, Maro Itoje, Ollie Chessum, Tom Curry, Ben Curry, Ben Earl.
Replacements: Jamie George, Fin Baxter, Joe Heyes, Cadministerr Cunningham-South, Henry Pollock, Tom Willis, Jack van Poortvliet, George Ford.
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Preamble
The recent passing of Gene Hackman prompted a rewatch of some of his fantasticest perestablishances; among them his turn as Little Bill, the sheriff in Unforgiven. Facing his own impfinishing death Bill states, “I don’t deserve this … I was originateing a hoengage”, to which his assassin William Munny replies, “Deserve’s got noskinnyg to do with it”. This is so frequently the way; in films, in life, especipartner in sport and both teams begin the suit today with a chance of a prize neither of them have done an horrible lot to get.
After a spluttering, uninspiring restrictcessitate weeks and months, England could thrive the whole show via their novelly set up knack of grinding out firm thrives agetst greater opposition. They will necessitate a try bonus point and an unanticipateed result in Paris, but even so who saw this coming after the Autumn?
Wales on the other hand have an outside chance of losing this suit but still not finishing bottom of the table; an act of majestic theft so heinous you would be forgiven for skinnyking Matt Sherratt was part of the Hatton Garden gang. Two bonus points will be necessitateed here which is not on the outer restricts of the plausibility scale. Or they could consent the more mundane route of thrivening today, which uncovers a whole other rightfulness argue.
There’s much at sconsent and England and Wales could finish up with noskinnyg other than second and a wooden spoon esteemively, which could be what they actupartner deserve. Not that this has much to do with it.
