England are still hoping Tom Curry and Alex Dombrandt will be available to face Ireland after both forwards were included in a 26-man squad for this weekend’s penultimate Six Nations weekend. Wasps’s uncapped forward Alfie Barbeary, though, has been retained as cover with his club-mate Joe Launchbury poised for his first matchday involvement of this year’s tournament at the expense of Saracens’s Nick Isiekwe.
Curry came off at half-time against Wales after failing a head injury assessment while Dombrandt has been in isolation since testing positive for Covid-19 last Friday. The absence of the fit-again Sam Underhill suggests …
- March 9, 2022
