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Give Dev Toner a rest - Henderson and Ryan is a great all-round pairing and also will make it much harder for England to call line-out. Understand calls for CJ at 8 but think the choice should be between Sean O'B and CJ as one of them with POM and Heaslip gives better balance between 'scrapping' / game management and ball-carrying. Also leaves either one of them to come off the bench as a "finisher"( to quote Eddie Jones) ... how good would it be to turn around his phrase against him! Gone a bit crazy in the back line I know, and harsh on Ringrose, but logic as follows: - 12: OLDING looking back to near best and game at 10 for Ulster shows how he could be a great foil to Sexton at 12 (much the same way as Farrell has worked for England) - 13: HENSHAW .. simply think he can be more of a threat at 13 .. also Joseph is great attacking player but not the biggest or best defender so don't think he will fancy fronting up to Robbie - 11 : EARLS a no-brainer - 14 : GILROY why not (apart from JS doesn't like his defence of course!). Zebo hasn't done a lot and would be nice to give England a bit more to worry about defensively. - 15: JP has to come in either at 15 or 13 BENCH: looks good with Zebo, O'Brien and Toner rested & fired-up to make a big contribution off the bench as well as Healy, Scannell, Ryan, Marmion and Jackson all being players capable of adding something to the mix.