😁 8 days out! England squad released & a big week of club rugby

We’re just 8 days out from Thursday’s opener in Paris! In this email:

📣 England announce their squad, see the other 5 here

🤕 Injury updates for France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales

⭐️ The star performers from the weekend’s club games

🟣 A look at 2025’s top performers to consider for your team

Steve Borthwick has named a 36-man squad. Since the squad was announced, Jack Kenningham has been called up to the training squad.

🆕 Greg Fisilau, Vilikesa Sela and Emmanuel Iyogun involved after excellent club performances.

✅ Fantasy favourites Ben Earl, Alex Mitchell, Tommy Freeman, Ellis Genge are all in. Breakthrough star of 2025 & super sub candidate Henry Pollock is also included.

🤕 Will Stuart, Ben Curry & Fin Baxter miss out through injury.

❌ Ollie Sleightholme, Nick Isiekwe, Beno Obano & Ted Hill don’t make the cut. Same for Noah Calouri, who just scored 4 at the weekend for Saracens.

The OUTs and INs after the weekend’s rugby.

Paul Boudehent 👉 Alexandre Roumat
Uini Atonio 👉 Georges-Henri Colombe
Thibaud Flament 👉 Joshua Brennan (just for Round 1)

Jack Boyle 👉 Billy Bohan
Tom Ahern 👉 Cormac Izuchukwu

Dave Cherry* 👉 Gregor Hiddleston
Jamie Dobie* 👉 Gus Warr

*Both players are staying in camp to recover from injuries

Keiron Assiratti 👉 Sam Wainwright

The key takeaways from the last fixtures before Round 1 of the Six Nations.

🛁 Finn Russell (13⭐️) scored 15 points against Gloucester. Guy Pepper (11⭐️) also scored.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Duhan Van Der Merwe (14⭐️) & Pierre Schoeman (11⭐️) score in Edinburgh’s defeat to the Bulls.

👞 Tommy Freeman (14⭐️), Eduardo Todaro (8⭐️) & Henry Pollock (13⭐️) scored for Northampton versus Sale.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Blair Murray (11⭐️) & Ellis Mee (9⭐️) scored for Scarlets.

🇫🇷 Emmanuel Meafou (9⭐️), Kalvin Gourgues (11⭐️) & Julien Marchand (13⭐️) all touched down for Toulouse vs Pau.

🔟 Harry Byrne (8⭐️) started for Leinster again and scored 14 points.

Ahead of next week, let’s remind ourselves of the top scorers from the 2025 edition.

Fantasy Team of the Tournament

15: Thomas Ramos 🇫🇷 – 179 Points
14: Blair Kinghorn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 – 210 Points
13: Yoram Moefana 🇫🇷 – 159 points
12: Tommaso Menoncello 🇮🇹 – 169 points
11: Louis Bielle-Biarrey 🇫🇷 – 206 Points
10: Fin Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 – 111 Points
9: Antoine Dupont 🇫🇷 – 148 points
1: Danilo Fischetti 🇮🇹 – 83 points
2: Dan Sheehan 🍀 – 167 Points
3: Zander Fagerson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 – 82 Points
4: Tadhg Beirne 🍀 – 111 Points
5: Dafydd Jenkins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 – 111 Points
6: Jack Morgan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 – 172 Points
7: Grégory Aldldritt 🇫🇷 – 175 Points
8: Ben Earl 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 – 163 Points

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Who makes your team?