Injury-hit Wales have handed forward Andrew Coombs his first start for his country in their team to face Ireland at the Millennium stadium on Saturday.
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The 28 year old backrower will partner Ian Evans in the second-row as Luke Charteris, Alun Wyn Jones and Bradley Davies are all ruled out. It’s a far cry from last year’s situation where there was an almost embarrassing number of quality and fit locks available.
However, there seems to be no problems in the back-line as interim Head Coach Rob Howley has included the usual big-name suspects across the pitch. Dan Biggar is preferred at out-half to James Hook in Howley’s first outing as Coach in the Six Nations.
The former scrum-half has also name uncapped Harlequins lock Olly Kohn, 31 on the bench.
WALES:
(15-9): Leigh Halfpenny; Alex Cuthbert, Jonathan Davies, Jamie Roberts, George North; Dan Biggar, Mike Phillips;
(1-8) Gethin Jenkins, Matthew Rees Jones, Andrew Coombs, Ian Evans, Aaron Shingler, Toby Faletau, Sam Warburton (c)
REPLACEMENTS: Ken Owens, Paul James, Craig Mitchell, Olly Kohn, Justin Tipuric, Lloyd Williams, James Hook, Scott Williams.
christopher tobin
02/01/2013 at 10:53 pm
good luck for tomorrow when you play ireland