England 6N squad

ENGLAND 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, 3 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)

You've got to laugh, he only take 2 scrum halves to a World Cup but picks three in a 28 man squad.

The usual nonsense "apprentices" in that shadow squad. Thorley not even in that. Glad we can get him a good run of games now.

Whilst I agree it will be good to have Thorley available to us I am sure the players called up to the shadow squad don't think it's a nonsense.

My guess is they will be delighted to know they are EJ thoughts and have the potential opportunity to show what they can do.

Genuine question: has anyone seen anything from Thorley this season to suggest he's international class? For me he's been bang out of form and needs to recapture what we saw in the past. Hopefully he can, because at his best he was scarily good.

Ah well: so wee Harry's elected to be English. There we are then.
Duw, duw.

Whilst I agree it will be good to have Thorley available to us I am sure the players called up to the shadow squad don't think it's a nonsense.

My guess is they will be delighted to know they are EJ thoughts and have the potential opportunity to show what they can do.

I'm sure they don't. A few injuries away from a big payday.

But when these names are above Spencer, Simmonds S, Simmonds J, Sinckler, T Hill, etc. etc. you've got to wonder what selection is based on.

Ah well: so wee Harry's elected to be English. There we are then.
Duw, duw.

Born in Slough David not Sennybridge I'm afraid .


Well Marler back again. I am sure he enjoyed that short retirement. Alun Wyn will be wary...

Harry and Paolo still have plenty of chances to change allegiances, they haven't been capped yet and I doubt they'll got a chance this season.

How many ex Hartpury players are in that England squad that don't play for Gloucester ?

Re: Thorley - he's not played well but I do wonder why he's been selected for the Eng squad for the last couple of years now, but only has 1 cap.

Eddie will have seen alot of him in training and will have given him areas to develop / improve his game, lets hope we see him back on form very soon.

Genuine question: has anyone seen anything from Thorley this season to suggest he's international class? For me he's been bang out of form and needs to recapture what we saw in the past. Hopefully he can, because at his best he was scarily good.

Nope, on this seasons performances he is nowhere near.

I wonder if he’s lost his confidence being on the edge of England but not quite making an impact.

His handling needs a lot of work, not confident under the high ball.