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Another wing surprise as England make 2 changes for Springboks

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Eddie Jones has named an England team to take on the Springboks in this Saturday’s Autumn Nations Series game in London that shows two changes from the starting XV that defeated the Wallabies last Saturday. Changes were guaranteed with skipper Owen Farrell and hooker Jamie George ruled out of contention following the victory over Australia.

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Their places in the starting England team are taken by Joe Marchant and Jamie Blamire. Marchant will start on the right wing, with Manu Tuilagi, last week’s No14, reverting to Farrell’s place at No12. Courtney Lawes takes over the captaincy.

In the pack, Blamire is chosen for his first Test start. On the bench, hooker Nic Dolly is in line for a Test debut while Joe Marler is included despite only being available to train with the squad on Friday following his period of isolation. England have opted for a six/two forwards/backs split on the bench with Raffi Quirke and Max Malins their only two backs. This is in contrast to the Springboks going with a five/three split.

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It is the first meeting between the countries since the 2019 World Cup final that was won by the Springboks in Yokohama 24 months ago and it will be played out amid the backdrop of Springboks director Rassie Erasmus getting heavily sanctioned on Wednesday following the charges of misconduct arising out of the Lions tour last July.

Jones said: “This is our biggest game of the season and the final game of the autumn campaign and we want to finish with a bang. We have been really pleased with the preparation this week and how the team has continued to develop over the past month.

“Now we want to put on our best performance this autumn in front of a capacity 82,000 crowd at Twickenham.” The non-selected players will return to their clubs on Thursday, as per an agreement with clubs, PRL and the RPA.

ENGLAND (vs Springboks, Saturday)
1. Bevan Rodd
2. Jamie Blamire
3. Kyle Sinckler
4. Maro Itoje
5. Jonny Hill
6. Courtney Lawes
7. Sam Underhill
8. Tom Curry
9. Ben Youngs
10. Marcus Smith
11. Jonny May
12. Manu Tuilagi
13. Henry Slade
14. Joe Marchant
15. Freddie Steward
FINISHERS
16. Nic Dolly
17. Joe Marler
18. Will Stuart
19. Charlie Ewels
20. Sam Simmonds
21. Alex Dombrandt
22. Raffi Quirke
23. Max Malins

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Woody 1100 days ago

No backup fly half, maybe Slade to cover? Raw front rowers. England could be exposed on Saturday. Marcus being given a clear run is exciting. He will be a marked man. Hope refs spot the ‘slightly’ late hits.

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JW 22 minutes ago
Let's be real about these All Blacks

I didn't really get the should tone from it, but maybe because I was just reading it as my own thoughts.


What I read it as was examples of how they played well enough in every game to be able to win it.


Yeah I dunno if Ben wouldn't see it that way (someone else would for sure need to point it out to him though), I'm more in the Ben not appreciating that those close losses werent one off scenarios camp. Sure you can look at dubious decisions causing them to have to play with 14 or 13 men at the death as viable reasons but even in the games they won without such difficulties they made a real struggle of it (compared to how good some of their first half play was). This kind of article where you trying to point out the 3 losses really would most likely have been wins only really makes sense/works when your other performances make those 3 games (or endings) stand out.


There might have been a sentence here and there to ensure some good comment numbers but when he's signing off the article by saying things like ..

Whilst these All Blacks aren’t blowing teams off the park like during the 2010s, they are nuggety and resourceful and don’t wilt. They are prepared to win the hard way, accumulating points by any means necessary.

and..

The other top sides in the world struggled to put them away. France and South Africa both could have well been defeated on home soil.

I don't really see it. Always making sure people are upto date with the SH standing/perspective! NZ went through some tough times with so many different perspectives and reasons why, but then it was.. amusing how.. behind everyone was once they turned a corner. More of these 'unfortunate' results returned against SA and France at the start of the RWC which made it extra tasty to catch other teams out when they did bring it. So that created some 'conscious' perspective that I just kept going and sharing re thoughts on similar predicaments of other teams, I had been really confident that Wallabies displays vs NZ were real, that the Argentines can backup their thing against Aus and SA (and so obviously the rest), and current one is that England are actually consistent and improving with their attack (which everyone should get onboard with), and I'm expecting a more dominant display against Japan (even though they should have more of their experienced internationals for this one) that highlights further growth from July. 👍

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