And Lions full-back Lee Byrne, who was instrumental in Wales' first win at Twickenham in 20 years two years ago, is likely to be suspended because of his part in the Ospreys' 16-man fiasco in their Heineken Cup win over Leicester last month.
As such, the spots do a good job of hammering out an imaginative place for Heineken Light: not the beer for the man you want to be, but rather the beer for that really exciting guy who you genuinely do not want to be all the time, but sometimes secretly wish you could live as, for a day or two.
Peel was excluded from Wales coach Warren Gatland's original 35-man squad for the RBS Six Nations because of a groin injury he picked up in Sale's Heineken Cup clash against Cardiff Blues.