Our Combined England & Ireland XV Contains Some Very Big Calls
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Old rivals.
England and Ireland will kickstart their respective Six Nations campaigns next month when the old rivals go head-to-head in Round 1.
Ireland head into the game as favourites having dismantled England in Twickenham last year in the final round to secure a historic Grand Slam, their first under Joe Schmidt.
But what would a combined XV of the two sides look like? Will Greenwood picked no fewer than 12 Irish players in his XV, but ours looks a little bit different.
With Eddie Jones stating this week he reckons Jack Nowell can be the “new breed” of rugby player that can play in the backs and forwards, we simply couldn’t leave him out….
Our Combined England & Ireland XV.
