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Seven Tigers prepare with England

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Seven Leicester Tigers players have been retained in the England squad ahead of Sunday's RBS 6 Nations match against Ireland in Dublin.

England have a squad of 25 for training before heading to Ireland.

Dan Cole, Geoff Parling, Tom Youngs and Ben Youngs all started the opening win over Scotland, while Toby Flood was used as a second-half replacement. Manu Tuilagi has returned to training after injury and Thomas Waldrom has been added to the squad following injury to No8 Ben Morgan.

England training squad
Chris Ashton (Saracens)
Brad Barritt (Saracens)
Mike Brown (Harlequins)
Danny Care (Harlequins)
Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers)
Owen Farrell (Saracens)
Toby Flood (Leicester Tigers)
Alex Goode (Saracens)
Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints)
James Haskell (London Wasps)
Joe Launchbury (London Wasps)
Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints)
Joe Marler (Harlequins)
Geoff Parling (Leicester Tigers)
Chris Robshaw (Harlequins)
David Strettle (Saracens)
Manusamoa Tuilagi (Leicester Tigers)
Billy Twelvetrees (Gloucester Rugby)
Billy Vunipola (London Wasps)
Mako Vunipola (Saracens)
Thomas Waldrom (Leicester Tigers)
David Wilson (Bath Rugby)
Tom Wood (Northampton Saints)
Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers)
Tom Youngs (Leicester Tigers)

The following players have this evening been released to return to their Aviva Premiership clubs:
Mouritz Botha (Saracens), Freddie Burns (Gloucester Rugby), Lee Dickson (Northampton Saints), Ben Foden (Northampton Saints), Will Fraser (Saracens), Jonathan Joseph (London Irish), Matt Kvesic (Worcester Warriors)