Winger George North could be ruled out of Wales’ crunch Six Nations game against England tomorrow.<\/p>\n
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North was named in the starting 15 to face England at the Principality Stadium, but has been struggling with a dead leg this week.<\/p>\n
Alex Cuthbert could be given the nod for the big match.<\/p>\n
The Dragons\u00a0are currently first in the Six Nations table with rivals England occupying third.<\/p>\n
England are favourites with the bookies to take the points at the Principality tomorrow afternoon – despite scraping past France 19-16 at Twickenham last weekend.<\/p>\n
War of words<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n There’s been a ‘war of words’ between both camps all week.<\/p>\n The latest argument is over whether the roof at the Principality Stadium should be closed for tomorrow’s game.<\/p>\n Wales’ interim head coach, Rob Howley, was hoping to close the roof to enhance the atmosphere.<\/p>\n But England coach Eddie Jones is set to put a dent in those hopes.<\/p>\n Earlier this week Wales scrum-half Rhys Webb said it’s a “massive game” in Cardiff this weekend – but said Wales will “concentrate on ourselves” instead of England.<\/p>\n But coach Jones cannot understand why England “are afraid” of playing in Cardiff – and said the Welsh can throw “as many daffodils as they like” at the English.<\/p>\n The game kicks off at 4:50pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n Wales starting XV:\u00a0<\/strong>Leigh Halfpenny (Toulon); George North (Northampton), Jonathan Davies (Scarlets), Scott Williams (Scarlets), Liam Williams (Scarlets); Dan Biggar (Ospreys), Rhys Webb (Ospreys); Rob Evans (Scarlets), Ken Owens (Scarlets), Tomas Francis (Exeter), Jake Ball (Scarlets), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys, capt), Sam Warburton (Cardiff Blues), Justin Tipuric (Ospreys), Ross Moriarty (Gloucester).<\/p>\n Replacements: <\/b>Scott Baldwin (Ospreys), Nicky Smith (Ospreys), Samson Lee (Scarlets), Cory Hill (Newport Gwent Dragons), Taulupe Faletau (Bath), Gareth Davies (Scarlets), Sam Davies (Ospreys), Jamie Roberts (Harlequins).<\/p>\n England starting XV:\u00a0<\/strong>Mike Brown (Harlequins); Jack Nowell (Exeter Chiefs); Jonathan Joseph (Bath Rugby), Owen Farrell (Saracens), Elliot Daly (Wasps); George Ford (Bath Rugby), Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers); Joe Marler (Harlequins), Dylan Hartley (captain, Northampton Saints), Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers), Joe Launchbury (Wasps), Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints), Maro Itoje (Saracens), Jack Clifford (Harlequins), Nathan Hughes (Wasps)<\/p>\n Replacements:<\/b> Jamie George (Saracens), Matt Mullan (Wasps), Kyle Sinckler (Harlequins), Tom Wood (Northampton Saints), James Haskell (Wasps), Danny Care (Harlequins), Ben Te’o (Worcester Warriors), Jonny May (Gloucester Rugby)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Winger George North could be ruled out of Wales’ crunch Six Nations game against England tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744,11],"tags":[26,1139,230,698,1138,172,124,175,199,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15647"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15728,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15647\/revisions\/15728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}