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Eddie Jones names 28-man England Six Nations squad

By Ian Cameron

22 Jan 2021

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Head coach Eddie Jones has named a reduced 28-man England Six Nations squad, but has still managed to spring at least two surprise selections. Paolo Odogwu and Harry Randall receive their first call-ups to the senior team, both having played for England at U20 level.

Owen Farrell will captain England for the tournament and there is a return from injury for Courtney Lawes.

Elsewhere, Elliot Daly and Anthony Watson could reach their 50-cap milestones during the championship and Beno Obano may be in line to get his first cap.

Sale Sharks’ new DoR Alex Sanderson explains why he left Saracens:

England will retain a 28-player squad throughout the tournament, following an agreement with Premiership Rugby, The RPA and The RFU in recognition of the challenges presented by COVID-19.

The squad will meet up at St. George’s Park, England football’s training base, on Wednesday 27 January. They will then move to their base, The Lensbury in Teddington, ahead of their first game against Scotland at Twickenham Stadium on Saturday 6 February (4.45pm KO).

Jones said: “This has been a really tough squad to pick and I know there are a lot of disappointed players who haven’t been selected.

“We’re really excited by the players we have got, it’s a very vibrant squad and we are looking forward to getting started next week.

“We’re very grateful to Premiership Rugby, the clubs and the RPA for allowing us to have 28 players throughout the tournament, we’re very happy with the number and it’s testament to the growing relationships between all parties.

“Ultimately our goal is to win the Six Nations and to do that we’ll need to work hard, prepare well each day and take it as it comes.”

Jones has also named a 12-player shadow squad, who will be part of the same testing protocols as the tournament squad.

Mako Vunipola will join with the squad to undertake rehab during the tournament.

Your England squad for the 2021 #GuinnessSixNations ?
We kick off our campaign against @Scotlandteam at Twickenham Stadium on 6 Feb ??????????????
More details ??#WearTheRose
— England Rugby (@EnglandRugby) January 22, 2021

FULL SQUAD
Backs
Elliot Daly (Saracens, 47 caps)
Owen Farrell (Saracens, 88 caps)
George Ford (Leicester Tigers, 72 caps)
Ollie Lawrence (Worcester Warriors, 3 caps)
Max Malins (Bristol Bears, 3 caps)
Jonny May (Gloucester Rugby, 61 caps)
Paolo Odogwu (Wasps, uncapped)
Harry Randall (Bristol Bears, uncapped)
Dan Robson (Wasps, 7 caps)
Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs, 34 caps)
Anthony Watson (Bath Rugby, 46 caps)
Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers, 104 caps)

Forwards
Luke Cowan-Dickie (Exeter Chiefs, 26 caps)
Tom Curry (Sale Sharks, 28 caps)
Ben Earl (Bristol Bears, 8 caps)
Ellis Genge (Leicester Tigers, 23 caps)
Jamie George (Saracens, 54 caps)
Jonny Hill (Exeter Chiefs, 4 caps)
Maro Itoje (Saracens, 43 caps)
Joe Launchbury (Wasps, 69 caps)
Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints, 85 caps)
Joe Marler (Harlequins, 72 caps)
Beno Obano (Bath Rugby, uncapped)
Will Stuart (Bath Rugby, 8 caps)
Sam Underhill (Bath Rugby, 22 caps)
Billy Vunipola (Saracens, 56 caps)
Harry Williams (Exeter Chiefs, 18 caps)
Mark Wilson (Newcastle Falcons, 19 caps)

SHADOW SQUAD
Charlie Atkinson (Wasps, uncapped)
Ali Crossdale (Saracens, uncapped)
Tom Dunn (Bath Rugby, 3 caps)
Charlie Ewels (Bath Rugby, 17 caps)
George Furbank (Northampton Saints, 3 caps)
Joe Heyes (Leicester Tigers, uncapped)
Jonathan Joseph (Bath Rugby, 54 caps)
Joe Marchant (Harlequins, 4 caps)
George Martin (Leicester Tigers, uncapped)
Alex Mitchell (Northampton Saints, uncapped)
Jacob Umaga (Wasps, uncapped)
Jack Willis (Wasps, 2 caps)

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Flankly 12 minutes ago

Let's be real about these All Blacks

left four wins on the table

This is a nonsense phrase that has become popular when rugby fans describe their own teams.

Regardless of the game, or which team you favor, both teams are likely to have "left points behind" or "gifted" their opponents some scores.

The truth is that in these four games NZ were not good enough to impose themselves and deliver the wins. Teams can improve, and I hope NZ does so, but let's not avoid the fact that they tried and failed.

Its not "left wins behind", but "this year we weren't good enough".

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DM 15 minutes ago

'Steve Borthwick hung his troops out to dry - he should take some blame'

Hyperbole aside I must be honest I didn’t know there was such a negative perception of him

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fl 16 minutes ago

'Steve Borthwick hung his troops out to dry - he should take some blame'

obviously that's hyperbole, but he hasn't generally come across as very likeable.

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fl 17 minutes ago

'Steve Borthwick hung his troops out to dry - he should take some blame'

Leicester finished third the next season, with Wigglesworth as head coach.

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DM 17 minutes ago

'Steve Borthwick hung his troops out to dry - he should take some blame'

Jeepers does the rest of the world really see Rassie as this evil “Dathvader leading stormtroopers”? I mean really?

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Nickers 19 minutes ago

Cheslin Kolbe backed to end 16-year wait

Wouldn't surprise me. His nomination is fairly left field but seems like he is just the representative from a great team who doesn't have an obvious superstar.

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Flankly 24 minutes ago

David Campese names his Springbok world player of the year winner

The Springboks could easily put another 50 points on them and batter them.

True, but the Boks could also spend the first 60 minutes not clicking at all. The selected pack and halfbacks are really inexperienced by Bok standards, and may need to be bailed out by the bench. The centers and outside backs are world class but they may not get the platform they need to click.

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NB 25 minutes ago

Why England's defence of the realm has crumbled without Felix Jones

Yes we never heard a prop explanation either for him or Aled Walters did we? All a bit strange for two such major players to depart at the same time without warning.

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NB 27 minutes ago

Why England's defence of the realm has crumbled without Felix Jones

Walters would have a say in that, but the 6/2 or 7/1 bench is more important Bull.

I don't think you can run that D all game with a 5/3 bench, game in game out. At least, not as successfully.

I don't think your claims about a lack of buy-in from England players is right though. What evidence do you have for that? As you can see, I could only find positive comments.

The EP is also the highest ball-in-play league in the world right now, so I don't buy the lazy and unfit line on England players. The problem is the system not the players.

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johnz 27 minutes ago

New Zealand can't keep losing first fives like Harry Plummer

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We'll continue to produce tallent only to have many of our second tier (and first sometimes) of professional players picked off because of the All Black centric model.

This obviously dilutes the quality and competition at SR level. The only way to increase the wage pool for such players at this point is to allow some of our marquee players to play abroad to reduce the wage bill pressure. This already happens under the cover of "sabaticals", but it could be formalised. Do we really need Beauden Barrett playing in NZ, for example. I remember quite clearly he wanted to negotiate a contract that allowed him to be NZ's first official Japanese based player. Part of him doesn't want to be turning out for the Blues every week in any case.

Some of his huge salary could have been used to keep Plummer, or invest in other valuable tallent essential for the health of Super Rugby.

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Flankly 30 minutes ago

'Steve Borthwick hung his troops out to dry - he should take some blame'

Borthwick should not be saying things like this, regardless of their truth.

He should be under-committing and over-delivering, to give the team a shot at rising to the top over the longer term. Having said that, it did not work for Eddie Jones. The RFU administrators don't like that kind of thing.

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J Marc 34 minutes ago

'Passionate reunion of France and New Zealand shows Fabien Galthie is wrong to rest his stars'

Leagues and fédérations have the same organisation for all professionnal sports in France. Fédérations is the general governing body of the sport and delegate the professionnal part of the sport to leagues. And compensation for international players is payed to the LNR by the FFR. Then LNR pay clubs.

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Nickers 35 minutes ago

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Totally agree. Nothing to gain from this game from playing BB and Dmac again. This fixture should always have been earmarked for a few more players like Higgins, Love, etc... It's being used as a testimonial for aging payers instead!

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Nickers 36 minutes ago

Five changes for the All Blacks, including the return of Sam Cane

How refreshing it would have been to see the likes of Ruben Love, Riley Higgins, or Noah Hotham be selected for a fixture like this.

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Nickers 38 minutes ago

Let's be real about these All Blacks

B is probably about right for the season. B+ for results, but B- for improvement throughout the season.

My main takeaway has been the number of tries that have been left on the field. Thinking back to Fozzie's first couple of years they really struggled to create anything, but took their chances pretty well when they came and still had the individual talent to conjure the odd piece of magic against the run of play.

This year's team has been given a lot more license to attack and have created so many opportunities, only for so many to go begging. I thought the efforts against SA, Ireland and France were all worthy of 4 tries minimum, but simple mistakes at the wrong time, pushing passes instead of retaining the ball, and taking completely the wrong option has kept us to 2 tries when 3 would have won it.

It certainly has the makings of something good, but next year will be the real litmus test to see if this is an attacking structure that can evolve and improve, or will always be hit and miss because of it's very nature and lack of structure.

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Jacque 39 minutes ago

Scotland won't be 'taken seriously' if they can't beat Australia

Weird reading about Scotland in the media. One would almost think they are Top 3 in the world.

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J Marc 42 minutes ago

'Passionate reunion of France and New Zealand shows Fabien Galthie is wrong to rest his stars'

Sure, it's in the culture of most of french clubs, but we can see with Guillard an other kind of 5.

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NB 47 minutes ago

'Passionate reunion of France and New Zealand shows Fabien Galthie is wrong to rest his stars'

Skelton and Meafou are not exceptions JM - Van der Mescht, Romain Taofifenua, Poloniati, Willemse, Maximin, Alainuese, Posolo Tuilagi etc These guys are deliberately hunted in the market by Top 14 clubs.