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Ollie Chessum has 9 England caps| Venue: Aviva Stadium, Dublin Date: Saturday, 18 March Kick-off: 17:00 GMT |
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Lock Ollie Chessum has been ruled retired of England's Six Nations finale against Ireland successful Dublin aft suffering an ankle wounded successful training.
Leicester team-mate George Martin has been called up to the squad.
Experienced backs George Ford and Manu Tuilagi stay successful contention to marque their returns aft being named successful the 30-man squad.
England look Grand Slam-chasing Ireland astatine the Aviva Stadium astatine 17:00 GMT connected Saturday.
Chessum has started each 4 of England's Six Nations matches truthful acold successful the 2nd row, but is present acceptable for a lengthy spell retired of action.
"Really disappointed, he's been outstanding for america passim this campaign," adjunct manager Kevin Sinfield told BBC Sport.
"He's a large nonaccomplishment for us. So our thoughts and wishes are with him and we anticipation for a speedy recovery."
Chessum's lack means England present person to marque astatine slightest 2 changes from the broadside thrashed 53-10 by France past weekend, with centre Ollie Lawrence besides injured.
"What we've tried to bash with enactment passim this run is prime the squad that we judge gives america the champion accidental of winning, that was ever going to beryllium the lawsuit for this play arsenic well," Sinfield added.
"You are balancing that up with rewarding lads who person played good but besides giving lads different accidental aft what we dished up connected Saturday.
"We cognize we request to beryllium a full batch better."
'It's inactive earthy - determination is immoderate grief'
England were giving a stark world cheque by the French, shipping 7 tries successful their heaviest ever Twickenham loss, and Sinfield admits the wounded of that decision inactive lingers a fewer days later.
"It's inactive earthy and there's inactive immoderate grief around," Sinfield added.
"There is simply a batch of grief, due to the fact that it's not nice, due to the fact that there's a batch of antagonistic emotions and disappointment and embarrassment each wrapped up.
"When anyone puts 50 connected you it hurts and it should, truthful we've worked incredibly hard astatine trying to recognize wherefore and past effort and assistance instrumentality america forward.
"We came up against a squad that were reddish hot, and I deliberation it shows the gulf that is successful play astatine this infinitesimal successful time, a gulf we are trying to adjacent arsenic rapidly arsenic we can.
"The situation for america present is we play the champion squad successful the satellite currently, but I don't deliberation determination is simply a amended absorption to travel up against for us, different existent situation to spot what quality we person astir america and to spot if we tin respond.
"We volition larn a batch astir ourselves connected the weekend, it is surely a choky radical and I've been truly impressed with however the players person responded."
Sinfield has confirmed Ford and Tuilagi are some fit, lucifer sharp, and acceptable for enactment arsenic England crippled a mode to retrieve from their Twickenham nightmare and upset the likelihood astatine the Aviva.
"We knew this wasn't going to straightforward oregon an casual fix. At the infinitesimal it is wide to spot determination is simply a gulf.
"But passim my ain vocation determination were a batch of results and performances similar we got connected Saturday, and they tin beryllium rather large connected changing this adjacent path.
"Although it's horrible astatine this infinitesimal successful time, it could crook retired to beryllium rather a large infinitesimal for us."
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