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Ben Spencer is being flown to Japan

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England have been forced into a late call-up with back-up scrum-half Willi Heinz likely to be ruled out of the tournament with a hamstring injury.

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Heinz was visibly struggling during England sensational 19-7 win over New Zealand at the International Stadium Yokohama on Saturday.

The Gloucester player came on in the 63rd minute as a replacement for Ben Youngs, but pulled his hamstring late in the game and is set to be ruled out of the tournament.

RugbyPass can reveal that Saracens’ Ben Spencer is ready to replace Heinz and is currently in transit to Japan. Spencer was named as the starting scrum-half for the Londoners’ Gallagher Premiership match with Leicester Tigers at Welford Road on Sunday, a fixture he will now miss.

Spencer has only been capped three times by England to date but is set to make a bench appearance in a World Cup final. The 27-year-old was part of England’s 12-day warm-weather training camp in Treviso but was released back to Saracens shortly after.

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He got his maiden international call-up to England’s tour of South Africa in June 2018 and last played off the bench versus Scotland last March.

Since making his debut for Saracens in March 2011 after joining the club as scrum-half cover from Cambridge, Spencer’s rise within the Saracens system has seen the Manchester-born playmaker capped by England Saxons and called-up to England’s elite player squad (EPS) before making his debut Test bow.

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He has helped Sarries to four Premiership titles and three European Champions Cups, while his last-gasp penalty in the 2015 Anglo-Welsh Cup final against Exeter Chiefs is forever etched in Saracens folklore.

WATCH: Eddie Jones, Owen Farrell and Steve Borthwick speak with the media following England’s 19-7 win over New Zealand

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KB 1 hour ago
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Im guessing you never lived in NZ under r dern and red commie labour

We were forced and in some cases mandated to take the V - I know of 7 people who D taking it and many with untold injuries - Minimium 12 K D in NZ taking it - it was never safe never effective never worked just Maimed and K'd qe were close to being thrown in quarantine camps Oz Govt MO Health have just recenty completed their c commission - they admit they never had the provable data to justify their actions and decisions & that the public will never accept it ever happening again Ardern is hated here ( 1 M patriots forced her out ) - bloomfield her side kick 2IC dr D excempted 11k from taking it - we (not u) know who they were the Pol and Public servants who knew they were fatal - A zeneca pulled it off the market due 2 excess D's - Japan banned them - called them stupid poison -

P M Shinzo Abe opposed the v and sent over a million doses back - because of that he was murdered - So were the heads of several African nations who also opposed the fake v they were k'd and their replacements allowed their countries to be swamped with them - C was V wasnt bought in fo C - C was bought in for the V

Im not here to talk politics but if want to I can all day especially to a RED neck commie like you - whats it going to be Rugby or Politics or mud slinging give me something to think about - surprise me with something meaty - not just word salad


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KB 1 hour ago
France outwrestle All Blacks in titanic Test for one-point win

Im guessing you never lived in NZ under r dern and red commie labour

We were forced and in some cases mandated to take the V - I know of 7 people who D taking it and many with untold injuries - Minimium 12 K D in NZ taking it - it was never safe never effective never worked just Maimed and K'd qe were close to being thrown into quarantine camps C was only a rebranded Flu


Oz Govt MOH have completed their c commission - they admit they never had the proveable data to make justify their statements and decisions & that the public will never accept it ever happening again - they fired rubber B into peaceful protestors Ardern is hated here ( 1 M patriots forced her out ) - bloomfield her side kick 2IC dr D excempted 11k from taking it - we (not u) know who they were the Pol and Public servants who knew they were fatal - A zeneca pulled it off the market due 2 excess D's - Japan banned them - called them stupid poison -

P M Shinzo Abe opposed the v and sent over a million doses back - because of that he was murdered - So were the heads of several African nations who also opposed the fake v they were k'd and their replacements allowed their countries to be swamped with them - C was V wasnt bought in fo C - C was bought in for the V

Im not here to talk politics but if u want to I can all day especially to a RED neck commie like you - whats it going to be Rugby or Politics or mud slinging give me something to think about - surprise me with something meaty - just not word salad


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