The game is a 7.45pm kick-off at Franklin’s Gardens and is being shown live on Sky Sports Mix – England currently two from two in the Six Nations after beating France (24-29) and Scotland (17-21) in their two games so far.

Lock-forward Farrar has already made his first-team debut for the Falcons this season, scoring in his maiden senior outing against Hartpury having returned from dual-registration at Doncaster.

Haydon-Wood is yet to appear for Newcastle’s first team but has been a regular for the unbeaten Falcons XV during their series of friendly matches against the Scottish Super6 sides.

England Under-20s head coach Alan Dickens said: “Friday sees us come up against a strong Ireland side who are also unbeaten in this year’s tournament and who are the U20 Grand Slam champions, so we know how tough a challenge it is going to be.

“For us it’s all about building through the tournament and improving with each game, and that is what I want to see on Friday.

“A feature of our opening two games has been the squad’s ability to be clinical and control the game at key periods, but also their spirit and we know that will be important on Friday.

“We’ve made changes so this is a great chance for those players to show how good they are and stake a claim for their rest of the Championship.”

**England men U20s side to face Ireland**

15 Freddie Steward (Leicester Tigers)

14 Gabriel Hamer-Webb (Bath Rugby)

13 Connor Doherty (Sale Sharks)

12 Charlie Watson (Saracens)

11 Tom Roebuck (Sale Sharks)

10 George Barton (Gloucester Rugby)

9 Sam Maunder (Exeter Chiefs, captain)

1 Sam Crean (Saracens)

2 Theo Dan (Saracens)

3 Luke Green (London Irish)

4 Hugh Tizard (Harlequins)

5 George Hammond (Harlequins)

6 Richard Capstick (Exeter Chiefs)

7 Josh Gray (Gloucester Rugby)

8 Rusiate Tuima (Exeter Chiefs)

**Replacements**

16 Ben Atkins (London Irish)

17 Emmanuel Iyogun (Northampton Saints)

18 Harvey Beaton (Saracens)

19 Chunya Munga (London Irish)

20 Rob Farrar (Newcastle Falcons)

21 Blake Boyland (Bristol Bears)

22 Will Haydon-Wood (Newcastle Falcons)

23 Max Ojomoh (Bath Rugby)