RICHARD Blaze will again represent England Under 21s tonight against their Italian counterparts in the Six Nations clash at Biella RFC.

The Warriors lock starts the match, just as he did last Friday when England defeated Wales 28-16 at Sixways. Blaze's club team-mate, scrum-half Nick Runciman, is on the bench.

National Academy coaches Jim Mallinder and Dorian West make two changes from that side. Shane Geraghty from London Irish will start at full-back in place of Gloucester's Olly Morgan, who injured his ankle in the final quarter of the team's opening game in Worcester.

Geraghty's place on the bench is taken by Wasps' wing Thom Evans, while last week's replacements, James Haskell of London Wasps and Irish's Topsy Ojo, step up to the starting team.

"I was impressed with the way things went on Friday," said Mall-inder. "We can take some real positives from our first game and certainly don't need to make wholesale changes.

"For the Italy game, we've swapped Topsy Ojo and James Hoyle around on the wing and done the same with Chris Robshaw and James Haskell at back row.

"Ojo, Haskell and Geraghty all impressed from the bench and it will be good for all three of them to get some more game time. I'm pleased for Thom too, he's looked sharp in training and deserves this chance.

"Italy will be well organised and physical. We will have to be at our best to beat them and have been working in training to correct those things that didn't go too well for us."

England: Geraghty, Ojo, Cornwell, Allen, Brown, Lamb, Foden, Hartley, Brooker, Wilson, Blaze, Croft, Haskell, Hills, Crane. Replacements: Briggs, Lambert, Ryder, Robshaw, Runciman, Hoyle, Evans.