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Biggar and North injuries worrying Wales
By Christopher Devine
Wales intend to wait until the latest possible moment before determining whether Dan Biggar and George North are fit to face England in the Six Nations on Saturday.
The influential duo were each injured on Sunday as Wales began their campaign with a 33-7 win over Italy in Rome.
Biggar was replaced by Sam Davies after taking a blow to the ribs during the first half, while North completed the match in clear discomfort after suffering a thigh injury.
Defence coach Shaun Edwards was quoted by Wales Online: "We are giving Dan Biggar and George North as long as possible to make the [England] game.
"There's really bad bruising on George's leg and the flight home didn't help. We are worried about both of them."
Edwards also provided contrasting updates on the fitness of Taulupe Faletau and Luke Charteris, who missed Wales' Six Nations opener with respective knee and hand injuries.
"Taulupe will be available for selection. We have to wait on Luke Charteris. His injury is more serious," Edwards added.
Wales are due to name their team on Thursday. England have announced the provisional retention of 24 players for their trip to Cardiff, with Jack Clifford included amid doubts over the fitness of Tom Wood, who will return to training on Thursday.
"We haven't made our final selection call but Tom will take a full part in training [Thursday]," England defence coach Paul Gustard told Sky Sports News.
"[His training programme] was modified yesterday just to protect his injury but he will be good to go tomorrow."
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He's really prospered under Farrell. Many of his older teammates used to renmark on how horizontal and chilled he is, so interesting to see his recent step up to captaincy.
Go to commentsYour not wrong Nick.
Extremely difficult to change.
The one team in Oz with any success gets tiny crowds and has few registered players.
It was only put there to even up the numbers and take overflow.
I think that long term the only way is to put current Oz SR teams into an NPC/NRC comp along with Melbourne and Combined Country and start afresh with genuine teams based primarily in Sydney and Brisbane.
Ideally they'd be called Sydney and Brisbane, but other names I've suggested elsewhere in this blog include WA and ACT because the reality is that minor states would kick up a huge fuss if they didn't get a mention
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