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Manu Tuilagi and Henry Slade are winning their fitness battles for England\u2019s Guinness Six Nations clash with Ireland.<\/p>\nManu Tuilagi and Henry Slade are winning their fitness battles for England\u2019s Guinness Six Nations clash with Ireland.<\/p>\n
Tuilagi and Slade have been recovering from respective groin and ankle injuries but are on course to be available for the Twickenham showdown on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cManu trained fully today so should be in contention for selection. It\u2019s good to have a quality player back,\u201d head coach Eddie Jones said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cSlade trained today so we have just got to monitor Slade\u2019s progress. Positive chance. Quality player. It gives us more options.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ollie Devoto, who won his second cap as a replacement off the bench at the Stade de France on February 2, is a doubt because of a back problem.<\/p>\n
England have been hit by the loss of prop Mako Vunipola, who has returned home to Tonga for family reasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cMako\u2019s a quality player but we are lucky we are blessed with two outstanding loosehead props in Joe Marler and Ellis Genge, so we can recover the loss of Mako,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n