Venue: Welford Road (Leicester Tigers)
Kick Off: 17:45

The should be a great encounter to get us all in the mood for this years Six Nations. I will be travelling to Leicester this evening to support the lads in what is bound to be a close battle, as usual, between the Irish and English at Welford Road.

Ireland A:
G Duffy (Connacht); J Murphy (Leicester), L Fitzgerald (Leinster), S Horgan (Leinster), T Bowe (Ulster); A Dunne (Connacht), I Boss (Ulster); C Healy (Leinster), F Sheahan (Munster), B Young (Ulster), T Hogan (Leinster), R Caldwell (Ulster), S Keogh (Leinster), S Jennings (Leinster) A Quinlan (Munster).

Replacements:
A Flavin (Connacht), D Fitzpatrick (Ulster), D Ryan (Munster), D Pollock (Ulster), C Keane (Leinster), N O’Connor (Ulster), D O’Riordan (Connacht).

England Saxons team:
N Abendanon (Bath); T Varndell (Leicester), O Smith (Leicester), S Geraghty (London Irish), D Armitage (London Irish); R Lamb (Gloucester), L Dickson (Newcastle); N Wood (Gloucester), D Paice (London Irish), J Hobson (Bristol), T Palmer (Wasps), N Kennedy (London Irish), P Dowson (Newcastle), B Woods (Newcastle), J Crane (Leicester, capt).

Replacements:
D Hartley (Northampton), D Wilson (Newcastle), G Skivington (Wasps), W Skinner (Harlequins), J Grindal (Newcastle), A Allen (Gloucester), M Brown (Harlequins).