Wales v England

All good fun this!!!! Hathaway is taller I think than Joe so he & Mee should not be found wanting aerially. Freeman is a handful though & they will kick a lot. I fully understand your reasoning with Lake; my worry is that they are going to come hard at the breakdown with Curry & Itoje & look to carry hard early to silence the crowd. Lake is better suited to that confrontation. Even if he only lasts the first half I will start to fancy our chances if we get to half time within a score. 

Again with Tomos - we both want to see Jarrod start but he needs the best service he can get because he really takes the ball to the line & makes very late passing decisions. I totally agree with you - the English centres regardless of who they play outside Dingwall are there for the taking & Jarrod could be just the man to do it. The more I write the more convinced I am that we can win.!!!!!!

Another area I think England are vulnerable is the lineout. They have gone with a back row which is breakdown heavy so no real lineout threats. We have Faletau, Jenkins & Teddy hopefully all good options against Itoje & Chessum who are both excellent options. They may of course go for a lot of reduced lineout numbers on their throws to limit our numbers. 

Half Backs,  Tomas has been poor all series, while Anscombe had an ok game against Ireland, but again was poor, and shows is age against Scotland look at times like a rabbit in the headlights, so Rhodri & Evans, with maybe Bevan & Edwards on the bench.

We have to be less passive than last Saturday, and play with adventure in the right areas, will have to remind Ben Thomas of that. 

The press say play on form, but obviously this does not cover some "stars" I have been disappointed with some senior players who have done virtually nothing, I said 2 weeks ago after the Irish game, we'll loose to Scotland, but beat England, and I'll stick with that.

Nic Berry is Saturday’s referee.

Dee v Lake - I can see if both ways. Lake is a combative leader so maybe against England you go with that but I trust Bomb in training to see where they are both at. 

I'm slightly perplexed by the Hathaway support. Hear me out. 

I like him as a player but he's not known for his aerial ability or defensive prowess. He's very much like a slightly bigger Blair Murray. How much has he played since being called up? I'm not sure there would be as much clamour to put him in if his position wasn't wing. The way I'm looking at it is that Joe played really well out of position and for this, effectively one-off, game we want continuity but also players who have recently played / played well, on the pitch. Moving Llewellyn out to 14 gives us his height and he's used to playing there, meaning Joe can slot in at 13 and continue where he left off against Scotland. When the backs are split, Max can hit the same lines anyway. 

Just seems, IMHO, to make more sense to put a team out of guys who have already got up to speed at this level recently rather than drop someone in from effectively nothing. Even if we have to shift one guy out one place in the backline. 

Hathaway is a threat outwide. Am surprised Dyer hasn't featured always played well for Wales.