LONDON - England winger Jason Robinson will travel with the team to Dublin today but no decision on his participation in Sunday morning's (NZ time) Six Nations clash will be made for 24 hours.
The English Rugby Football Union (RFU) said in a statement that the World Cup
winner had made a good initial recovery from the neck injury he sustained in training this week.
The Sale captain, who has scored three tries in two Six Nations games since his return from international retirement, will continue to receive treatment for his injury.
Uncapped Harlequins wing David Strettle, who was added to the squad on Wednesday night, will remain with the squad and travel as precautionary cover.
Flyhalf Jonny Wilkinson also missed last night's training sessions because of "concerns regarding the bumps and bruises he had last week and some tightness to his right hamstring."
"Jonny will be assessed again tomorrow by the medical team. Mike Catt will also fly out with the team today as precautionary cover," the RFU said.
More than a Six Nations rugby match will be at stake when the two teams run out onto Croke Park stadium. The game is also heavily laced with history, politics and symbolism.
It's the first time a British team will play at the cathedral of Irish nationalism and scene of "Bloody Sunday," the darkest day of Ireland's 1919-21 war of independence, when British troops fired on crowds at a Gaelic football match.
Everything 'British' has been strictly banned from the ground ever since - so it will be a fascinating moment, heavily laden with emotion, when the strains of England's national anthem God Save the Queen ring out over the traditional Irish ground in front of the partisan crowd of 82,000.
