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In pictures: Second week of England Rugby World Cup training

Freddie Steward is rocking a very different look at England training (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)

Steve Borthwick has a 38-strong squad with him this week in Brighton as England negotiate week two of their pre-season training ahead of the September Rugby World Cup.

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Only players from Saracens and Sale, the May 27 Gallagher Premiership finalists, were unavailable for selection – they will only become available for the first July camp at The Lensbury.

Last week, with players from the four semi-final clubs unavailable, Borthwick had 28 players in for week one training at Pennyhill Park.

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That gathering wasn’t without its concerns as Ollie Lawrence and Jack Walker suffered respective knee and calf injuries that will reportedly take six weeks to fully recover from.

Both are now in Brighton receiving further treatment, joining Billy Vunipola, Ollie Chessum and Luke Cowan-Dickie in the group of in-camp players rehabilitating from injury.

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At least they remain the in loop – Ollie Hassell-Collins, Harry Randall and Ben Spencer were named in the week one squad but weren’t recalled for week two training. England open their four-match World Cup warm-up schedule with an August 5 game away to Wales in Cardiff, with coach Borthwick poised to name his final 33-man squad for the finals in France two days later on August 7 in London.

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Joe Marler stretches out (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)
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Smith England World Cup training
Marcus Smith goes running (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)
Slade England training
Henry Slade strikes a pose (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)
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Sam Underhill and George Martin go through their paces (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)
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Steve Borthwick calls the shots (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)
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England Smith training
It wasn’t all hard work as Marcus Smith and co share a joke (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)
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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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