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Posted 198 days ago
By Alex Lowe
WHEN ENGLAND walk out to play South Africa at Twickenham on November 24, each player will be accompanied by a mascot from his formative club.
It is a thoughful touch, the latest idea from Stuart Lancaster to remind his squad who they represent each time they pull on an England jersey. It is part of a noble and effective…
Posted 365 days ago
By Sarah Mockford, Rugby World Features Editor
THIS IS the strongest team England have put out for this fixture for many a year, with plenty of familiar faces from the Six Nations in the startling line-up. They will want to start building momentum for the South Africa tour with a good win at Twickenham, but the Barbarians are not short of…
Posted 380 days ago
STUART LANCASTER has included 13 uncapped players in his 42-man England squad to tour South Africa in June.
Harlequins back-rower Chris Robshaw will again captain England on the five-match tour, which includes three Tests against the Springboks.
The 13 uncapped players in the squad include Wasps lock Joe Launchbury and wing Christian Wade, London Irish centre Jonathan Joseph and Leicester hooker Tom…
Posted 422 days ago
By Sarah Mockford, Rugby World Features Editor
STUART LANCASTER has revealed his plan for the future now he has been given the England head coach role on a permanent basis.
Lancaster, who guided England to second place in the recent Six Nations having won four matches out of five, has a three-step plan for the national squad now he has been given…
Posted 422 days ago
I WENT to Stuart Lancaster’s Six Nations debrief last week. He had put together an impressive presentation, complete with PowerPoint display, but what really stood out were the words of Graham Rowntree, his assistant coach.
Given that the England coaching appointment was still up in the air at the time, Rowntree could have been forgiven for looking after his own interests and making sure that
Posted 422 days ago
BEN COHEN has criticised the appointment of Stuart Lancaster as England head coach on a permanent basis.
Cohen, who was part of England’s 2003 World Cup-winning squad, believes the RFU have made a mistake in giving Lancaster the role ahead of more experienced candidates like Nick Mallett, the former South Africa and Italy coach, and Wayne Smith, who was New Zealand’s…
Posted 432 days ago
Four wins from five. Not even the most optimistic England fan in their right mind would have predicted that outcome at the start of this year’s RBS 6 Nations. Yet now England will look back on their defeat to Wales not with the same sense of pride they seemed to feel at the time, but with a sour taste of what might have been.
Posted 436 days ago
David Strettle has recovered from a sternum injury to reclaim his place on the wing, in England’s only change to the starting XV who will take on Ireland on Saturday. Charlie Sharples, who stepped into Strettle’s left wing berth against France last week, drops out of the 22.
Wasps hooker Rob Webber suffered a shoulder injury during the Paris victory, and…
Posted 442 days ago
PARIS IN the springtime (well nearly). That’s the venue for this weekend’s RBS 6 Nations tie between France and England – the first time the two sides have met since Les Bleus knocked Martin Johnson’s men out of the World Cup in October. Both sides have new coaches in charge now – Philippe Saint-Andre in the blue corner and Stuart Lancaster in the white – so what can we expect when the two sides meet at Stade de France on Sunday afternoon?
Posted 442 days ago
STUART LANCASTER has picked an unchanged England starting XV to play France in Paris in the RBS 6 Nations on Sunday afternoon.
The only changes from the England 22 that lost 19-12 to Wales come on the bench with Stade Francais lock Tom Palmer replacing the injured Courtney Lawes and fit-again Charlie Hodgson, the Saracens fly-half, coming in for Toby Flood.
England…
