A brief look at the amended starting line-ups ahead of the first weekend of the 2010 Six Nations championship.
Ireland made a late change to the starting XV to take on Italy at Croke Park with injured lock Donncha O’Callaghan making way for Leo Cullen.
Italy coach Nick Mallett has kept faith the side that beat Samoa in Ascoli in the autumn, meaning Australian-born Craig Gower starts at outhalf.
England centre Riki Flutey has been ruled out of tomorrow’s clash with Wales after suffering a thigh injury in training. He has been replaced in the starting XV by Toby Flood with Shontayne Hape added to the replacements.
Lee Byrne is back in harness for Wales after having his two-week ban lifted, meaning James Hook starts in the centre, but the loss of Gethin Jenkins may prove very costly for the Welsh.
Scotland will start with mercurial place-kicker Chris Paterson at fullback in a bid to punish French indiscipline at Murrayfield.
France coach Marc Lievremont has opted for Francois Trinh-Duc at outhalf and left try-machine Vincent Clerc on the bench
Jean-Baptiste Elissalde has been forced to pull out. The 32-year-old is replaced by Michalak, who was surprisingly left out of the original 30-man squad.
IRELAND (v Italy):R Kearney; T Bowe, B O'Driscoll (capt), G D'Arcy, A Trimble; R O'Gara, T O'Leary; C Healy, J Flannery, J Hayes; L Cullen, P O'Connell, K McLaughlin, D Wallace, J Heaslip. Replacements : R Best, T Court, D Ryan, S O'Brien, E Reddan, P Wallace, K Earls.:
ITALY (v Ireland):L McLean; K Robertson, G Canale, G Garcia, M Bergamasco; C Gower, T Tebaldi; S Perugini, L Ghiraldini (capt), M Castrogiovanni; 4-C Del Fava, Q Geldenhuys; J Sole, M Bergamasco, A Zanni. Replacements : F Ongaro, M Aguero, M Bortolami, P Derbyshire, S Picone, R Bocchino, A Masi.
ENGLAND: (v Wales):D Armitage; M Cueto, M Tait, T Flood, U Monye; J Wilkinson, D Care; T Payne, D Hartley, D Wilson, S Shaw, S Borthwick (capt), J Haskell, L Moody, N Easter. Replacements: S Thompson, D Cole, L Deacon, S Armitage, P Hodgson, Shontayne Hape, B Foden.
WALES (v England):L Byrne; T James, J Hook, J Roberts, S Williams; S Jones, G Cooper; P James, G Williams, A Rhys Jones, A-W Jones, L Charteris, A Powell, M Williams, R Jones (capt). Replacements: H Bennett, R Gill, B Davies, J Thomas, R Rees, A Bishop, L Halfpenny.
SCOTLAND (v France):C Paterson; T Evans, M Evans, G Morrison, S Lamont; P Godman, C Cusiter; A Dickinson, R Ford, M Low, N Hines, A Kellock, K Brown, J Barclay, J Beattie. Replacements : S Lawson, A Jacobsen, R Gray, A MacDonald, R Lawson, A Grove, H Southwell.
FRANCE (v Scotland):C Poitrenaud; B Fall, M Bastareaud, Y Jauzion, A Rougerie; F Trinh-Duc, M Parra; T Domingo, W Servat, N Mas, L Nallet, P Pape,T Dusautoir (capt), F Ouedraogo. Replacements : D Szarzewski, L Ducalcon, J Pierre, J Bonnaire, F Michalak, D Marty, V Clerc, S Marconnet.