So Phil Vickery is appointed captain and there’s a very interesting mixture of the old guard and a few youngsters (Matthew Tait, for example) in hte aquad. I still think we’re going to get creamed in the Six Nations and tip Ireland to win if not a Grand Slam, but here’s the full squad:

Backs: I Balshaw (Gloucester), M Catt (London Irish), M Cueto
(Sale Sharks), H Ellis (Leicester), A Farrell (Saracens), T Flood
(Newcastle), S Geraghty (London Irish), J Lewsey (Wasps), J Noon
(Newcastle), S Perry (Bristol), J Robinson (Sale Sharks), P Richards
(Gloucester), P Sackey (Wasps), M Tait (Newcastle), M Tindall
(Gloucester), J Wilkinson (Newcastle Falcons).

Forwards: A
Brown (Gloucester), G Chuter (Leicester), M Corry (Leicester), L Deacon
(Leicester), P Freshwater (Perpignan), D Grewcock (Bath), M Lund (Sale
Sharks), L Mears (Bath), L Moody (Leicester), T Payne (Wasps), T Palmer
(Wasps), T Rees (Wasps), S Thompson (Northampton), P Vickery (Wasps,
capt), D Ward-Smith (Bristol), J White (Leicester), J Worsley (Wasps).