Kidney’s Ireland calls worth watching

THE Triple Crown may have joined the RBS Six Nations Championship as the stuff of dreams for this season but rarely has there been as much interest in the selection of an Irish team as today’s announcement of the side to meet England at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday.

After the latest sloppy performance against Wales, coach Declan Kidney is under increasing fire and he will desperately want to put out a squad capable of ending the auld enemy’s hopes of a Grand Slam.

Many reasonable explanations can be put forward to excuse Saturday’s ineptness and the strange thing about it is that areas of the side which were causing most concern have been improved.