Missing from Round 1

England

Props: Marler, Genge, Mullan, Sinckler
Second Row - only distant back ups
Back Row - Vunipola, Hughes, Haskell
Half Backs -
Outside Backs - Daly, Nowell, Slade, Francis, Rokuduguni

Doubts - Brown, Robshaw

France

Front Row:  - Chat
Back Row: Gujon, Ollivon, Sanconnie, Cancoriet
Half Backs: Parra, Lopez
Outside Backs: Basteraud, Fofana, Lacroix, Nakaitaci, Raka, Dulin


Ireland

Back Row - SOB, Heaslip, Ruddock
Outside Backs - Ringrose, Payne, Gilroy

Doubts - Kilcoyne


Italy

Front Row - Zani, Gega
Outside Backs - Campagnaro


Scotland

Front Row - Brown, Ford, Turner, Dell, Marfo, Nel, Fagerson, Dickinson, Berghan
Second Row - Gray sr
Centres - Dunbar, Taylor



Wales

Second Row - Ball
Back Row - Faletau, Warburton
Half Backs - Webb, Biggar, Priestland
Outside Backs: Davies, Williams (Li), North



Would appreciate help in keeping this up to date. Trying to concentrate purely on players who would feature if available ahead of any selected. (thus would include 5th choice prop if at leas 3 of the top 4 were ruled out).

Teo has said he is fit....no one else has.

You can add Richie Gray to the Scotland absentees.

Are Scotland going for uncontested scrums..?

Is this just injuries as Scotland are missing Berghan for the Wales game due to suspension. Will be back for the rest of the 6 nations though

You can add for France:
- Picamoles (choice rather than injury but think he will be back in round 2 or 3)
- wingers like Lacroix, Nakaitaci or even Raka and Dulin at FB
- Ollivon, Sanconnie and Cancoriet in the backrow.
- Chat (clear number 2 hooker)

You potentially have North and Amos for Wales along with Leon Brown still following concussion protocols so hes out.

I'm pretty sure LW IS out for Scotland if not the whole thing.

LW? Laidlaw?

If it is, he completed 80 for Clermont against Montpellier. Looked good.

If there is a questionable section, Scotland have Wilson, Dunbar and Taylor as injury doubts. Dunbar (concussion) is most likely to be fit but Taylor (several concussions close together) and Wilson are more 50-50.

Hazel Sapling wrote:LW? Laidlaw?

If it is, he completed 80 for Clermont against Montpellier. Looked good.

If there is a questionable section, Scotland have Wilson, Dunbar and Taylor as injury doubts. Dunbar (concussion) is most likely to be fit but Taylor (several concussions close together) and Wilson are more 50-50.

Liam Williams.

Scottrf wrote:

Hazel Sapling wrote:LW? Laidlaw?

If it is, he completed 80 for Clermont against Montpellier. Looked good.

If there is a questionable section, Scotland have Wilson, Dunbar and Taylor as injury doubts. Dunbar (concussion) is most likely to be fit but Taylor (several concussions close together) and Wilson are more 50-50.

Liam Williams.

Was thinking of playing for Scotland

whocares wrote:You can add for France:
- Picamoles (choice rather than injury but think he will be back in round 2 or 3)
- wingers like Lacroix, Nakaitaci or even Raka and Dulin at FB
- Ollivon, Sanconnie and Cancoriet in the backrow.
- Chat (clear number 2 hooker)

Fofana too? All the Clermont backs basically. All the flair players, all I see is a disjointed, overweight squad. I don't expect much.

Ireland

Back Row - SOB, Heaslip
Outside Backs - Ringrose, Payne
Alleged Living Gods - Zebo, Beirne

Apart from those four guys (and the two anointed beings) yes, all other players in the entire country are fit........... for a change!

Scottrf wrote:

whocares wrote:You can add for France:
- Picamoles (choice rather than injury but think he will be back in round 2 or 3)
- wingers like Lacroix, Nakaitaci or even Raka and Dulin at FB
- Ollivon, Sanconnie and Cancoriet in the backrow.
- Chat (clear number 2 hooker)

Fofana too? All the Clermont backs basically. All the flair players, all I see is a disjointed, overweight squad. I don't expect much.

Strange. Is that a sure sign that club means more than country now in Fance and that a bunch of quick sick notes are rushing in to avoid training under the new young and exciting International coach?

Stop it, Fly! You are sooooooo cynical.

SecretFly wrote:Ireland

Back Row - SOB, Heaslip
Outside Backs - Ringrose, Payne
Alleged Living Gods - Zebo, Beirne

Apart from those four guys (and the two anointed beings) yes, all other players in the entire country are fit........... for a change!  

I understand Dave Kilcoyne is injured. Would he have been on the bench?

SecretFly wrote:

Scottrf wrote:

whocares wrote:You can add for France:
- Picamoles (choice rather than injury but think he will be back in round 2 or 3)
- wingers like Lacroix, Nakaitaci or even Raka and Dulin at FB
- Ollivon, Sanconnie and Cancoriet in the backrow.
- Chat (clear number 2 hooker)

Fofana too? All the Clermont backs basically. All the flair players, all I see is a disjointed, overweight squad. I don't expect much.

Strange.  Is that a sure sign that club means more than country now in Fance and that a bunch of quick sick notes are rushing in to avoid training under the new young and exciting International coach?

Stop it, Fly!  You are sooooooo cynical.

Yeah stop it Fly. You can do better than that I know
These (Clermont) guys have been off for a while (except Parra). they are already out of play off race as well so not there is anything to play for during the 6N...

Wales

Back Row - Faletau, Warburton
Half Backs - Webb, Biggar, Priestland
Outside Backs: Davies

Doubts Williams (Li), North

Lydiate would have been in with a shot if his autumn reintroduction was anything to go by.

There's also Jake Ball at lock.

Leon Brown would have been in as third choice at TH.

Biggar is out for the first three rounds I think, not sure about Priestland but he should not have been in the mix anyway. Liam Williams is possibly back for the second round while North and Amos are rumoured to be thrown in for the first round.

World Rugby has resisited jumping to conclusions about the cause of these injuries. It does seem as if there are more than usual but that's something else which perhaps needs to be verified.

If, however, Super Rugby sees a a lot of injuries when their season starts then the new laws will inevitably be blamed. That will put World Rugby on the spot. They may not be the root cause but if there are no changes, then we run the risk of continued high attrition in a World Cup year.

LondonTiger wrote:


Ireland

Back Row - SOB, Heaslip
Outside Backs - Ringrose, Payne

For Ireland, SOB is a big miss but Heaslip not so much as I feel he is coming to the end of his career and in CJ and/or Conan there are better options.

Ringrose, a lot of hype made about him but I am yet to be convinced he is the best option and Ireland have more than enough centres of International standard. Payne, not sure Ulster or Ireland will see him play again with so many centres, he will not be missed.

All in all, Ireland seem to be the team least affected by injuries.

Good thread LT

Is Francis really a realistic option missing from Englands 1st team?

Very good thread - let's keep this one up to date. 

For Scotland, there are usually more prone bodies lying around at the end of round 3 than there were at the Battle of Thermopylae.

Rob Howley's coaching has been missing for some time!

alive555 wrote:Is Francis really a realistic option missing from Englands 1st team?

A realistic option on the bench - in the autumn when fit he was ahead of Lozowski, but not a big miss tbh

LondonTiger wrote:

alive555 wrote:Is Francis really a realistic option missing from Englands 1st team?

A realistic option on the bench - in the autumn when fit he was ahead of Lozowski, but not a big miss tbh

He wasn't.

Francis is a fringe player at the moment.

LondonTiger wrote:
Ireland

Back Row - SOB, Heaslip
Outside Backs - Ringrose, Payne

Jackson, Ruddock, Gilroy

Kilcoynes a doubt

Rugby Fan wrote:World Rugby has resisited jumping to conclusions about the cause of these injuries. It does seem as if there are more than usual but that's something else which perhaps needs to be verified.

If, however, Super Rugby sees a a lot of injuries when their season starts then the new laws will inevitably be blamed. That will put World Rugby on the spot. They may not be the root cause but if there are no changes, then we run the risk of continued high attrition in a World Cup year.

Jan 2017 - https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/extraordinary-injury-crisis-could-decimate-12437085
Oct 2016 - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2016/10/24/joe-launchbury-i-am-ready-to-answer-englands-injury-crisis/
Sept 2015 - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/sep/20/wales-injury-crisis-rugby-world-cup-england-cory-allen
Jan 2014 - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/england/10606582/Six-Nations-2014-Injury-has-forced-Stuart-Lancasters-hand-but-young-guns-can-triumph-in-Parisian-bear-pit.html
Oct 2013 - http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/wallaby-injury-crisis-2013-its-worse-than-you-thought/
Nov 2012 - https://www.express.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/358815/Injury-crisis-adds-to-Welsh-woe
Dec 2011 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/16030788
July 2010 - https://www.sixnationsrugby.com/en/news/13229.php
Nov 2009 - https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/rugby-chiefs-tackle-injury-crisis-6715747.html


Etc.

Not saying we should be complacent, and with the ball in play more now there are more collisions in the game and a higher risk of injury, but injury crises are not a new thing. Concussive injuries are probably much better reported now and managed too.