ELLIOT DALY HAS returned to England’s Six Nations squad ahead of next weekend’s crunch clash against France, while Sam Simmonds and Kyle Sinckler are also back in a 33-man party after regaining fitness.
Wasps winger Daly played no part in England’s first three matches due to a combination of ankle and calf injuries, but has expressed hope he will be fit to play in next weekend’s contest in Paris.
Daly has cleared the first hurdle after being named in Eddie Jones’ training squad, ahead of a fixture England have to win to maintain their title hopes following a damaging Calcutta Cup defeat to Scotland last time out.
Nimble-footed number eight Simmonds returns, the Exeter Chiefs forward having sustained a shoulder injury in the round-two victory over Wales.
Prop Sinckler is also named, with the Harlequins front-rower having not played a part in the tournament thus far due to a hamstring problem.
England training squad
Forwards: Dan Cole, Charlie Ewels, Jamie George, Dylan Hartley, James Haskell, Nathan Hughes, Maro Itoje, George Kruis, Courtney Lawes, Joe Launchbury, Joe Marler, Zach Mercer, Chris Robshaw, Sam Simmonds, Kyle Sinckler, Sam Underhill, Mako Vunipola, Harry Williams.
Backs: Mike Brown, Danny Care, Elliot Daly, Owen Farrell, George Ford, Gabriel Ibitoye (apprentice player), Jonathan Joseph, Alex Lozowski, Jonny May, Jack Nowell, Marcus Smith (apprentice player), Denny Solomona, Ben Te’o, Anthony Watson, Richard Wigglesworth.
- Omni
Strange one amid the impending arrivals of Mbappe & co
Mike Ashley’s final insult to Newcastle
I wonder if the Sheikh will still buy Newcastle now? Terrible foresight by Ashley
Benetiz with a bit of funding would have turned the top 6 into the top 7. Newcastle are a sleeping giant of a football club and deserve so much more from Ashley and Co. Another relegation would destroy them, they need to get it right and fast.
@Hardly Normal: huge club, massive fan base and loyal supporters, it seems the only reason that club isn’t near the top of the table is the owner. This might be the last straw for Newcastle fans as bad as it was before for Ashley I’d imagine it’ll be ten times worse now
@aidan mccormack: he doesn’t care, he’s more interested in saving doomed department stores..
NO
So again the magpie fan’s has to suffer. Benitez is going to be a big loss for Newcastle United. Sooner the new take over the better.
Just the opportunity ROY wants
Very dour manner but one of the best managers around. He deserves to be at a top club. Newcastle were very lucky to have him for 3 years…
When Ole is inevitably sacked in November he would be a brilliant replacement if still available. He would put a team structure in place as well as been extremely shrewd in the transfer market. Would love if he could come in right now tbh.
@Eric Djemba-Djemba: MU could do (and have recently done) a LOT worse! He’s an incredibly unrated manager when you look at his track record of achievements at different clubs. There’s no doubting his organisational and stabilising skills, he’s a master at it. However, I’d be surprised if he joined MU with his LFC history, but I’d equally expect he’s also above such ‘loyalties’ – he’s far too smart for that.
Rafa keeping them up year after year is akin to winning a trophy. Ashley is betting on the promoted teams being worse than they are not backing the magpies to be better
Could Newcastle’s loss be Chelsea’s gain ?
@Shane Lad: pretty sure he wont go back there given his last experience of chelsea
@Shane Lad: even though he had some success there the fickle fans didn’t like him so I’d say not
If there’s any team in the PL I feel sorry for it’s Newcastle, there was a time when they were seriously pushing top 4 but in the last 10 years it’s just been so up and down for them literally. They are a big team and they have a great fan base (apart from the horse punchers) and honesty if it wasn’t for having the worst owner in the league they could have become like what Spurs are now or at least be in the position Wolves are in where they’ve Europa League football and can take it to the big 4 when they play them. No club as big as Newcastle should be relegation prone. Rafa is one of the great unsung managers never getting the respect he deserves because of ungrateful fans like Madrid and Chelsea, any team from 5th downwards would be lucky to have him
Rumour that he’s going to Liverpool and Klopp is off to Barcelona.
@FlyingDogThing: #fakenews