Team Selection - Round 1 - August Internationals

Ireland  vs  Italy

Ireland

15  Jordan Larmour, 14  Andrew Conway, 13  Garry Ringrose, 12  Chris Farrell 11  Dave Kearney, 10  Joey Carbery, 9  Luke McGrath, 8  Jordi Murphy, 7  Tommy O’Donnell, 6  Rhys Ruddock (c), 5  Jean Kleyn, 4  Devin Toner, 3  Andrew Porter, 2  Rob Herring, 1  Jack McGrath

Replacements  :  16  Niall Scannell, 17  Cian Healy, 18  John Ryan, 19  Iain Henderson, 20  Tadhg Beirne, 21  Kieran Marmion, 22  Jack Carty, 23  Mike Haley 

Italy

15  Edoardo Padovani, 14  Angelo Esposito, 13  Tommaso Benvenuti, 12  Marco Zanon, 11  Giulio Bisegni, 10  Carlo Canna, 9  Guglielmo Palazzani, 8  Jimmy Tuivaiti, 7  Maxime Mbanda, 6  Giovanni Licata, 5  Dean Budd (c) 4  Alessandro Zanni, 3  Marco Riccioni, 2  Oliviero Fabiani, 1  Nicola Quaglio

Replacements  : 16  Federico Zani, 17  Andrea Lovotti, 18  Simone Ferrari, 19  Marco Lazzaroni, 20  Renato Giammarioli, 21  Callum Braley, 22  Ian McKinley, 23  Matteo Minozzi

England  vs  Wakes

England

15  Elliot Daly, 14  Ruaridh McConnochie, 13  Henry Slade, 12  Piers Francis, 11  Anthony Watson, 10  George Ford (c),  9 Willi Heinz, 8  Billy Vunipola, 7  Sam Underhill, 6  Tom Curry, 5  Charlie Ewels, 4  Joe Launchbury, 3  Dan Cole, 2  Luke Cowan-Dickie,  1  Ellis Genge

Replacements  :  16  Jack Singleton, 17  Joe Marler, 18  Harry Williams, 19  George Kruis, 20  Lewis Ludlam, 21  Ben Youngs, 22  Joe Marchant, 23  Joe Cokanasiga

Wales

15  Liam Williams, 14  George North, 13  Jonathan Davies, 12  Hadleigh Parkes, 11  Josh Adams, 10  Gareth Anscombe, 9  Gareth Davies, 8  Ross Moriarty, 7  Justin Tipuric, 6  Aaron Wainwright, 5  Alun Wyn Jones (c), 4   Adam Beard, 3  Tomas Francis, 2  Ken Owens, 1  Nicky Smith

Replacements  :  16  Elliot Dee, 17  Wyn Jones, 18  Dillon Lewis, 19  Jake Ball, 20  Aaron Shingler, 21  Tomos Williams, 22   Dan Biggar, 23  Owen Watkin

There are interesting tests coming up with all the warm up games for the WC already available.    

Ireland and Italy  updated

England m and Wales Updated

England look to have selected an experimental side while Wales have probably selected their best side. Maybe the Welsh trying to keep that winning streak/ culture going into the WC.

Maybe - nobody knows - but one thing is for certain - the NH teams remains unconcincing in the last 3 WC's and  we will have to see what happens this year.

My forecast of outcomes on Suprbru is as follows:-

Ireland to win by 19 points

England to win by 6 points,    

Maybe - nobody knows - but one thing is for certain - the NH teams remains unconcincing in the last 3 WC's and  we will have to see what happens this year.

My forecast of outcomes on Suprbru is as follows:-

Ireland to win by 19 points

England to win by 6 points,    

That's brave, 

Ruaridh McConnochie was a sevens player who only recently changed codes and Heinz is a 32 year old Kiwi making his debut as well.

This will be Watson's international return as well after a long injury layoff. Ford is hopeless as well.

Sure a funny team - but Mozart Jones is an Aussie and he would go to watch the Aussies playing in the Ashes tests.