Six Nations 2021 squads: England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, France and Italy as Sam Underhill ruled out

THE Six Nations is nearly here as rugby returns to clear away those lockdown blues.

England will be looking to build on a productive 2020 which saw them win both last year’s competition and the Autumn Nations Cup.

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Owen Farrell captained England to the 2020 Six Nations[/caption]

But they’ll be without Joe Marler and Joe Launchbury, both of whom have pulled out through injury.

What are the Six Nations 2021 squads?

The 2021 Six Nations squads are as follows…

Scotland Six Nations squad

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Gregor Townsend has recalled bad boy Finn Russell for Scotland[/caption]

Forwards

Ewan Ashman, Simon Berghan, David Cherry, Alex Craig, Scott Cummings, Allan Dell, Matt Fagerson, Zander Fagerson, Grant Gilchrist, Gary Graham, Jonny Gray, Richie Gray, Oli Kebble, Willem Nel, Jamie Ritchie, Grant Stewart, Rory Sutherland, Blade Thomson, George Turner, Hamish Watson

Backs

Darcy Graham, Chris Harris, Stuart Hogg, Huw Jones, Blair Kinghorn, James Lang, Sean Maitland, Byron McGuigan, Ali Price, Cameron Redpath, Finn Russell, Scott Steele, Duncan Taylor, Duhan van der Merwe, Jaco van der Walt

France Six Nations squad

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Fabien Galthie will want his France squad to go one better after finishing runners up in the Six Nations and Autumn Nations Cup in 2020[/caption]

Forwards

Uini Atonio, Cyril Baille, Pierre Bourgarit, Camille Chat, Georges-Henri Colombe, Jean-Baptiste Gros, Mohamed Haouas, Hassane Kolingar, Julien Marchand, Killian Geraci, Bernard Le Roux, Baptiste Pesenti, Swan Rebbadj, Romain Taofifenua, Paul Willemse, Gregory Alldritt, Dylan Cretin, Francois Cros, Anthony Jelonch, Charles Ollivon, Selevasio Tolofua

Backs

Baptiste Couilloud, Antoine Dupont, Baptiste Serin, Louis Carbonel, Matthieu Jalibert, Julien Delbouis, Gael Fickou, Virimi Vakatawa, Arthur Vincent, Damian Penaud, Donovan Taofifenua, Teddy Thomas, Gabin Villiere, Anthony Bouthier, Brice Dulin, Thomas Ramos

England Six Nations squad

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Eddie Jones has named debutants Harry Randall and Paolo Odogwu in his Six Nations squad[/caption]

Forwards

Luke Cowan-Dickie, Tom Curry, Ben Earl, Ellis Genge, Jamie George, Jonny Hill, Maro Itoje, Courtney Lawes, Beno Obano, Will Stuart, Jack Willis, Billy Vunipola, Harry Williams, Mark Wilson, Charlie Ewels, Tom West

Backs

Elliot Daly, Owen Farrell, George Ford, Ollie Lawrence, Max Malins, Jonny May, Paolo Odogwu, Harry Randall, Dan Robson, Henry Slade, Anthony Watson, Ben Youngs
 
SHADOW SQUAD

Charlie Atkinson, Ali Crossdale, Tom Dunn, George Furbank, Joe Heyes, Jonathan Joseph, Joe Marchant, George Martin, Alex Mitchell, Jacob Umaga

Wales Six Nations squad

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Alun Wyn Jones will captain an experienced Wales squad with just one debutant named[/caption]

Forwards

Rhys Carre, Wyn Jones, Rhodri Jones, Elliot Dee, Ryan Elias, Ken Owens, Leon Brown, Tomas Francis, Dillon Lewis, Jake Ball, Adam Beard, Alun Wyn Jones, Will Rowlands, Cory Hill, Dan Lydiate, Josh Navidi, Aaron Wainwright, Taulupe Faletau, Josh MacLeod, Justin Tipuric,

Backs

Gareth Davies, Tomos Williams, Kieran Hardy, Dan Biggar, Callum Sheedy, Jarrod Evans, Johnny Williams, Jonathan Davies, Nick Tompkins, Owen Watkin, George North, Josh Adams, Hallam Amos, Louis Rees-Zammit, Leigh Halfpenny, Liam Williams.

Ireland Six Nations squad

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Johnny Sexton will once again captain Ireland in this year’s Six Nations[/caption]

Forwards

Tadhg Beirne, Will Connors, Caelan Doris, Ultan Dillane, Tadhg Furlong, Cian Healy, Dave Heffernan, Iain Henderson, Rob Herring, Ronan Kelleher
Dave Kilcoyne, Peter O’Mahony, Tom O’Toole, Andrew Porter, Quinn Roux,
Rhys Ruddock, James Ryan, CJ Stander, Josh van der Flier

Backs

Bundee Aki, Billy Burns, Ross Byrne, Craig Casey, Andrew Conway, Shane Daly, Keith Earls, Chris Farrell, Jamison Gibson Park, Robbie Henshaw, Hugo Keenan, Jordan Larmour, James Lowe, Stuart McCloskey, Conor Murray, Garry Ringrose, Jonathan Sexton

Italy Six Nations squad

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Italy picked up the wooden spoon once again in 2020[/caption]

Forwards

Pietro Ceccarelli, Danilo Fischetti, Marco Riccioni, Daniele Rimpelli, Cherif Traore, Giosuè Zilocchi, Luca Bigi, Gianmarco Lucchesi, Marco Manfredi, Niccolò Cannone, Riccardo Favretto, Marco Lazzaroni, David Sisi, Cristian Stoian, Michele Lamaro, Maxime Mbanda, Johan Meyer, Sebastian Negri, Federico Ruzza

Backs

Callum Braley, Guglielmo Palazzani, Stephen Varney, Tommaso Allan, Carlo Canna, Paolo Garbisi, Mattia Bellini, Juan Ignacio Brex, Monty Ioane, Federico Mori, Luca Sperandio, Jacopo Trulla, Marco Zanon

Additional invited players

Michelangelo Biondelli, Tommaso Boni, Renato Giammarioli, Tommaso Menoncello, Marcello Violi