Marcus Smith and Henry Slade should be the large -scale victims of a selection of England on Wednesday while Steve Barthwick is preparing to reorganize his faulty rear line.
The head coach should present his team ad – who was initially scheduled for Friday – and reveal seismic changes behind the fray.
Mail Sport understands that Marcus Smith must be demoted for a bench role against Italy in Twickenham on Sunday, while Slade risks being omitted from match 23 in total.
Sources have indicated that the Veteran Exeter Center will be replaced in the midfield by Fraser Dingwall, to form an Alliance All-Northampton, 9-10-12 with its Saints Mitchell Saints Holy Colleagues and End Smith.
Slade and Ollie Lawrence had become a midfielder in the past year, but now Barthwick is ready to take a risk on a new combination, in the hope of triggering the stowed attack of England.
Marcus Smith is likely to fall on the bench for the six -nations home match in England against Italy
Henry Slade is in danger of being completely excluded from the England team for Sunday’s match
England head coach Steve Barthwick is preparing to reorganize the return line of his team
With Marcus Smith out of the XV, his place in the back must be taken by Elliot Daly de Saracens, who had a revealing impact on the bench in narrow victories on France and Scotland – marking the last decisive test while the hosts beat the French last month.
However, this will be a devastating setback for the playmaker of Harlequins Smith, who found himself as 10 departure in the national team last year.
The 26-year-old aligned himself in half the fly in eight successive tests after grasping his luck when George Ford missed the summer tour in Japan and New Zealand last year due to an injury.
But when he was moved backwards to open the way to the end of Smith to be promoted, he suggested that the writing was on the wall for Magic Marcus and now it is reduced to a rescue role, with major implications for its prospects to win a place on the lions tour in Australia.