Live: Ireland V England Match Thread

Welcome all to the official Ireland V England match thread

Divas first rugby match thread, as the mighty Ireland take on that lot from over the water


Details
Venue: Aviva Stadium
Date: Sunday, 10 February
Kick-off: 15:00 GMT


Teams
Ireland
15-Rob Kearney; 14-Craig Gilroy, 13-Brian O'Driscoll, 12-Gordon D'Arcy, 11-Simon Zebo; 10-Jonathan Sexton, 9-Conor Murray, 8-Jamie Heaslip (captain), 7-Sean O'Brien, 6-Peter O'Mahony, 5-Donnacha Ryan, 4-Mike McCarthy, 3-Mike Ross, 2-Rory Best, 1-Cian Healy.

Replacements: 16-Sean Cronin, 17-David Kilcoyne, 18-Declan Fitzpatrick, 19-Donncha O'Callaghan, 20-Chris Henry, 21-Eoin Reddan, 22-Ronan O'Gara, 23-Keith Earls.


England
15-Alex Goode, 14-Chris Ashton, 13-Brad Barritt, 12-Billy Twelvetrees, 11-Mike Brown, 10-Owen Farrell, 9-Ben Youngs; 1-Joe Marler, 2-Tom Youngs, 3-Dan Cole, 4-Joe Launchbury, 5-Geoff Parling, 6-James Haskell, 7-Chris Robshaw (captain) 8-Tom Wood.

Replacements: 16-Dylan Hartley, 17-Dave Wilson, 18-Mako Vunipola, 19-Courntey Lawes, 20-Thomas Waldrom, 21-Danny Care, 22-Toby Flood, 23-Manu Tuilagi.


Officials
Referee : Jérôme Garces (FFR)
Touch judges : Nigel Owens (WRU) and Pascal Gauzere (FFR)
TV : Iain Ramage (SRU)


Match facts

Head-to-head
England have not won a Six Nations match in Dublin since 2003, scoring an unlucky 13 points in three out of the four matches since. But they won 20-9 on their last visit to the Aviva in August 2011.
This is the second oldest international fixture, dating back to 1875. England have 72 wins to Ireland's 46.
Ireland have not won their opening two games of a Six Nations campaign since they won the Grand Slam in 2009. England have won their opening two games for the past four seasons.

Ireland
Ireland have not scored a try in their last two matches with England.
They committed 15 infringements and received two yellow cards v Wales.
Replacement Ronan O'Gara is still the only player to have featured in all 13 previous seasons of the Six Nations.

England
England made 655 metres in attack against Scotland, more than double their average from 2012.
England's line-up v Scotland was the second youngest line-up by any team in the Six Nations era.
England's next try will be their 200th in the Six Nations.


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