[BoyBrumby]

Going with "who I think will be picked" rather than "who I'd pick".

1. Sheridan (ENG)
2. Flannery (IRE)
3. Murray (SCO)
4. O'Connell* (IRE)
5. AW Jones (WAL)
6. R Jones (WAL)
7. D Wallace (IRE)
8. Heaslip (IRE)
9. Phillips (WAL)
10. Wilkinson (ENG)
11. S Williams (WAL)
12. D'Arcy (IRE)
13. O'Driscoll (IRE)
14. Bowe (IRE)
15. Byrne (WAL)

Nailed-on selections in bold, all four of them! Think Byrne's gone backwards slightly and if I was picking my team would have Armitage in there instead. Wallace is on sticky wicket too; Martyn Williams is probably the best specialist 7 in the NH still, had an ordinary time of things in the 6 Nations but will still tour and in SA the coaches might like a bit of extra bulk, so Joe Worsley might come in on a "fighting fire with fire" brief.

D'Arcy plays with BoD regularly so take 12 from Flutey, whose iffy defence counts against him too. Phillips is a monster of a scrum-half, so think that will get him 9 and Wilko is a default selection in that Geech knows he has the game to beat the Boks, which I'm not sure O'Gara or S Jones do.