Six Nations

Ultane Dillan is the "physical animal" who can ease Ireland's second-row injury crisis in Saturday's RBS 6 Nations clash with England, according to Simon Easterby.

Wasps' highly-rated centre Elliot Daly looks set to make his Test match debut on Saturday after being named in England's matchday 23 for the RBS 6 Nations clash against Ireland at Twickenham.

Scotland captain Greig Laidlaw aims to put their losing run in the RBS 6 Nations out of his mind in Rome on Saturday - but he is well aware they need to beat Italy.

Elliot Daly is set to make his England debut against Ireland on Saturday after being retained in Eddie Jones' 23-man squad for the Twickenham showdown.

Lock Luke Charteris will miss Wales' RBS 6 Nations clash against France in Cardiff on Friday because of a knee injury.

Conor Murray has admitted Ireland harbour a "fear factor" about facing England at Twickenham.

Scotland and Edinburgh lock Grant Gilchrist is likely to miss the remainder of the season having suffered yet another injury blow.

Eddie Jones is adamant Manu Tuilagi can play a role in England's RBS 6 Nations clash with Wales on March 12.

Wales squad centre Cory Allen was due to undergo a scan on Monday after being injured during Cardiff Blues' Guinness PRO12 clash against Leinster.

London Irish duo Sean Maitland and Blair Cowan have pulled out of the Scotland squad for Saturday's RBS 6 Nations clash with Italy through injury.

Fit-again props Cian Healy and Mike Ross are in line to boost Ireland's creaking scrum in Saturday's RBS 6 Nations match against England at Twickenham.

France have been forced to pull late call-up David Smith out of their plans for Friday's RBS 6 Nations clash with Wales after discovering he did not qualify to play for Les Bleus.

England have lost fringe players Ollie Devoto and Josh Beaumont to injury as they prepare for Saturday's RBS 6 Nations clash with Ireland.

Ireland have suffered a triple injury blow after Sean O'Brien, Dave Kearney and Mike McCarthy were ruled out of the remainder of the RBS 6 Nations.

The U20 Six Nations certainly began with a bang this season.

Eddie Jones has retained the 23-man England squad which eased past Italy in the Six Nations last Sunday for training in London this week.

Danny Care accepts there may never be a clear winner in his battle with Ben Youngs to be England's favoured scrum-half under Eddie Jones.

Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt has revealed fly-half Johnny Sexton suffered a "whiplash injury" to his neck and shoulder in Ireland's 10-9 RBS 6 Nations defeat to France.

With two rounds of the 2016 RBS Six Nations in the books, there has been plenty to talk about over the last couple of weeks.

Joe Schmidt has admitted Ireland have only a "very, very outside chance" of now retaining their RBS 6 Nations title.