Six Nations rugby squads: England recall Ford with Farrell injured, Alun Wyn Jones OUT for Wales, Ireland squad revealed
THE Six Nations has almost arrived!
Wales are ravaged by injuries as they look to retain the title they won last year.
Meanwhile England will be keen to improve on an abject fifth place finish in 2021, which saw them win just one match.
Here’s how the squads are looking ahead of the tournament.
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Six Nations squads
Wales
Forwards
Rhys Carre
Wyn Jones
Gareth Thomas
Ryan Elias
Dewi Lake
Bradley Roberts
Leon Brown
Tomas Francis
Dillon Lewis
Adam Beard
Ben Carter
Seb Davies
Will Rowlands
Christ Tshiunza
Taine Basham
Ellis Jenkins
Jac Morgan
Ross Moriarty
James Ratti
Aaron Wainwright
Backs
Gareth Davies
Kieran Hardy
Tomos Williams
Gareth Anscombe
Dan Biggar (c)
Rhys Priestland
Callum Sheedy
Jonathan Davies
Uilisi Halaholo
Nick Tompkins
Owen Watkin
Josh Adams
Alex Cuthbert
Louis Rees-Zammit
Johnny McNicholl
Liam Williams
Players unavailable for selection due to injury:
Elliott Dee, Ken Owens, Alun Wyn Jones, Taulupe Faletau, Dan Lydiate, Josh Macleod, Josh Navidi, Justin Tipuric, Johnny Williams, George North, Leigh Halfpenny
France
Forwards
Gregory Alldritt
Uini Atonio
Cyril Baille
Demba Bamba
Gaetan Barlot
Daniel Bibi Biziwu
Dylan Cretin
Francois Cros
Ibrahim Diallo
Thibaud Flament
Jean-Baptiste Gros
Mohamed Haouas
Anthony Jelonch
Bernard Le Roux
Sekou Macalou
Julien Marchand
Peato Mauvaka
Yoan Tanga
Romain Taofifenua
Florent Vanverberghe
Florian Verhaeghe
Paul Willemse
Cameron Woki
Backs
Leo Berdeu
Baptiste Couilloud
Jonathan Danty
Brice Dulin
Antoine Dupont
Jules Favre
Antoine Hastoy
Melvyn Jaminet
Matthis Lebel
Maxime Lucu
Yoram Moefana
Romain Ntamack
Damian Penaud
Thomas Ramos
Teddy Thomas
Virimi Vakatawa
Tani Vili
Gabin Villiere
Ireland
Backs (17)
Bundee Aki
Robert Baloucoune
Joey Carbery
Jack Carty
Craig Casey
Andrew Conway
Keith Earls
Jamison Gibson Park
Mack Hansen
Robbie Henshaw
James Hume
Hugo Keenan
Jordan Larmour
Michael Lowry
Conor Murray
Garry Ringrose
Johnny Sexton (c)
Forwards
Ryan Baird
Finlay Bealham
Tadhg Beirne
Jack Conan
Gavin Coombes
Caelan Doris
Tadhg Furlong
Cian Healy
Iain Henderson
Rob Herring
Ronan Kelleher
Dave Kilcoyne
Peter O’Mahony
Tom O’Toole
Andrew Porter
James Ryan
Dan Sheehan
Nick Timoney
Kieran Treadwell
Josh van der Flier
Development Player
Cian Prendergast
Scotland
Forwards
Ewan Ashman
Josh Bayliss
Jamie Bhatti
Magnus Bradbury
Andy Christie
Scott Cummings
Rory Darge
Matt Fagerson
Zander Fagerson
Grant Gilchrist
Jonny Gray
Nick Haining
Jamie Hodgson
Stuart McInally
WP Nel
Jamie Ritchie
Pierre Schoeman
Javan Sebastian
Sam Skinner
Rory Sutherland
George Turner
Hamish Watson
BACKS
Mark Bennett
Darcy Graham
Chris Harris
Stuart Hogg
Rory Hutchinson
Sam Johnson
Blair Kinghorn
Rufus McLean
Ali Price
Cameron Redpath
Kyle Rowe
Finn Russell
Kyle Steyn
Sione Tuipulotu
Duhan van der Merwe
Ben Vellacott
Ben White
England
Forwards
Alfie Barbeary
Jamie Blamire
Ollie Chessum
Luke Cowan-Dickie
Tom Curry
Alex Dombrandt
Charlie Ewels
Ellis Genge
Jamie George
Joe Heyes
Jonny Hill
Maro Itoje
Courtney Lawes
Lewis Ludlam
Joe Marler
Bevan Rodd
Sam Simmonds
Kyle Sinckler
Will Stuart
Backs
Mark Atkinson
Orlando Bailey
George Ford
Tommy Freeman
George Furbank
Ollie Hassell-Collins
Max Malins
Joe Marchant
Elliot Daly
Luke Northmore
Jack Nowell
Raffi Quirke
Harry Randall
Henry Slade
Marcus Smith
Freddie Steward
Ben Youngs
Injury cover: Nick Isiekwe
Italy
Forwards
Niccolo Cannone
Pietro Ceccarelli
Epalahame Faiva
Danilo Fischetti
Marco Fuser
Toa Halafihi
Michele Lamaro
Gianmarco Lucchesi
Sebastian Negri
Ivan Nemer
Giacomo Nicotera
Tiziano Pasquali
Giovanni Pettinelli
Federico Ruzza
David Sisi
Abraham Steyn
Cherif Traore
Giosue Zilo
Manuel Zuliani
Backs
Callum Braley
Pierre Bruno
Juan Ignacio Brex
Giacomo Da Re
Alessandro Fusco
Paolo Garbisi
Monty Ioane
Leonardo Marin
Tommaso Menoncello
Federico Mori
Luca Morisi
Edoardo Padovani
Stephen Varney
Marco Zanon