Six Nations latest – Banahan in for Tindall

Six Nations latest – Banahan in for Tindall

17 Mar 2011

Keo.co.za brings you news from the Six Nations.

Banahan in for Tindall – Matt Banahan will replace Mike Tindall for England’s Grand Slam decider against Ireland.

Banahan will slot in at centre in Tindall’s injury-enforced absence while Nick Easter has been named England skipper. Martin Johnson has made no other changes to the starting side that fronted Scotland, but David Strettle joins the reserves bench.

England – 15 Ben Foden, 14 Chris Ashton, 13 Matt Banahan, 12 Shontayne Hape, 11 Mark Cueto, 10 Toby Flood, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Nick Easter (c), 7 James Haskell, 6 Tom Wood, 5 Tom Palmer, 4 Louis Deacon, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Dylan Hartley, 1 Alex Corbisiero.
Subs: 16 Steve Thompson, 17 Paul Doran-Jones, 18 Simon Shaw, 19 Tom Croft, 20 Danny Care, 21 Jonny Wilkinson, 22 David Strettle.

O’Gara dropped – Jonny Sexton has been favoured at flyhalf ahead of Ronan O’Gara for Ireland’s final Six Nations match against England.

The other change sees fullback Luke Fitzgerald replaced by Keith Earls, while Andrew Trimble takes Earls’s place on the wing.

Ireland - 15 Keith Earls, 14 Tommy Bowe, 13 Brian O’Driscoll (c), 12 Gordon D’Arcy, 11 Andrew Trimble, 10 Jonathan Sexton, 9 Eoin Reddan, 8 Jamie Heaslip, 7 David Wallace, 6 Sean O’Brien, 5 Paul O’Connell, 4 Donncha O’Callaghan, 3 Mike Ross, 2 Rory Best, 1 Cian Healy.
Subs: 16 Sean Cronin, 17 Tom Court, 18 Leo Cullen, 19 Denis Leamy, 20 Peter Stringer, 21 Ronan O’Gara, 22 Paddy Wallace.


8 Comments

  • 1.cane: Reply to this comment
    17 Mar 2011, 12:19 pm

    I hope the Bogg Leaping Dragons kick some arrse.

    Go the Patrick’s.

    St Paddy’s day tomorrow.

    Green beer and Leprechaun hats’.
    Nothing like it.

  • 2.too 2rue: Reply to this comment
    17 Mar 2011, 12:57 pm

    hic

  • 3.DontThinkJustWonder: Reply to this comment
    17 Mar 2011, 12:59 pm

    Terrible terrible news. Next thing the Stormers will be buying him.

  • 4.Flametop: Reply to this comment
    17 Mar 2011, 13:28 pm

    I have two words for the Ireland selectors for the next time that they think about picking ROG

    The first begins with J and the second is Fourie.

    Every player needs to enjoy tackling and not see it as a necesssary evil or something that your back row covers for you.

  • 5.cane: Reply to this comment
    17 Mar 2011, 13:51 pm

    @Flametop(Flametop)-4:

    Have a GREAT DAY tomorrow Flametop.

    Nice to see you back.

  • 6.too 2rue: Reply to this comment
    17 Mar 2011, 14:34 pm

    marvellous, here I was thinking I was the only maddy Paddy here. I blame my Saffa colleague who posts here – yes, you know who you are !

    @Flametop(Flametop)-4:

    what say ye to a quick scoop at Flanagans then ?

  • 7.Flametop: Reply to this comment
    18 Mar 2011, 01:42 am

    @cane(cane)-5:

    Cheers Cane… everybody’s a paddy on the day!

    @too 2rue(too 2rue)-6:

    There’s a few here but I think I might have been the first!
    Missed your post earlier… hope you had a good one

  • 8.Auntie Mavis: Reply to this comment
    19 Mar 2011, 03:37 am

    English centres are required to be boofheads. Subtlety is frowned on and any enterprise is positively forbidden.

Keo.co.za has always promoted uncensored views, but has never tolerated racist or crass outbursts. Come on guys and girls. If you can't moderate yourselves or each other then I am going to be forced to regulate the posts and enforce a registration process for comments. The choice is yours.

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