Head coach Andy Farrell is on Thursday morning set to name his matchday 23 for the Guinness Six Nations third-round clash against an English side smarting from their 31-20 Calcutta Cup defeat to Scotland in Edinburgh.

An extensive interview with the 38-year-old on his journey as a player with from Killarney Athletic and Celtic into coaching at Newcastle United, Northern Ireland and Sparta Prague will be published in the coming weeks.

There are plenty of questions in the air for England. Saturday will be a proving ground one way or the other.

Ireland scrum coach John Fogarty had first suggested that Ulster prop Tom O'Toole could switch from tighthead to loosehead. Given he had spent more than a year out of the national camp, he was grateful for the opportunity.

This is certainly one instance where football can take a back seat.

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