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Injured England duo Lawes and Curry return to Premiership action

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Courtney Lawes and Tom Curry, the duo who captained England in their recent five-game Guinness Six Nations campaign, are back in action on Friday night for their respective clubs, Northampton and Sale, following injury. Lawes skippered his country for their matches against Wales, Ireland and France after Curry has taken on that responsibility for the earlier games against Scotland and Italy when his fellow back-rower was unavailable.

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It was April 15 when Lawes picked up a gruesome thumb injury during the Challenge Cup defeat for Northampton at Gloucester. It initially sparked doubts that the forward might not make it back in time for the upcoming England tour of Australia. 

However, despite the injury drawing a comparison with ‘Frankenstein’s monster’ from head coach Phil Dowson, the 33-year-old has now been given the all-clear to feature in the closing stages of Northampton’s push to finish in the top four.

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After making a quicker than expected comeback, he has been picked in his club’s back row for their clash at Franklin’s Gardens on Friday against defending champions Harlequins a fortnight after sustaining ligament and tendon damage.

Curry, meanwhile, had been sidelined since damaging his hamstring when playing for England in their March 12 defeat to Ireland. It was suggested at the time it would require a six-week recovery and seven weeks later, he has been chosen among the replacements for this Friday’s Sale game versus Newcastle in Manchester. 

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NORTHAMPTON (vs Harlequins, Friday): 15. George Furbank; 14. Matt Proctor, 13. Fraser Dingwall, 12. Rory Hutchinson, 11. Tommy Freeman; 10. James Grayson, 9. Alex Mitchell; 1. Emmanuel Iyogun, 2. Mike Haywood, 3. Conor Carey, 4. Alex Coles, 5. Api Ratuniyarawa, 6. Courtney Lawes, 7. Lewis Ludlam (capt), 8. Juarno Augustus. Reps: 16. James Fish, 17. Alex Waller, 18. Paul Hill, 19. Alex Moon, 20. Aaron Hinkley, 21. Tom James, 22. Piers Francis, 23. Ollie Sleightholme.

SALE (vs Newcastle, Friday): 15. Luke James; 14. Tom Roebuck, 13. Sam James, 12. Rohan Janse van Rensburg, 11. Jack Metcalf; 10. Robert du Preez, 9. Faf de Klerk (capt); 1. Bevan Rodd, 2. Akker van der Merwe, 3. Nick Schonert, 4. Cobus Wiese, 5. JP du Preez, 6. Jean-Luc du Preez, 7. Ben Curry, 8. Daniel du Preez. Reps: 16. Ewan Ashman, 17. Simon McIntyre, 18. Joe Jones, 19. Matt Postlethwaite, 20. Tom Curry, 21. Gus Warr, 22. Connor Doherty, 23. Simon Hammersley.

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That's Cron's job though. Australia has had one of the most penalised scrums in international rugby for a long time. Just look at the scrum win loss percentage and scrum penalties. That is your evidence. AA has been the starter during that period. Pretty simple analysis. That Australia has had a poor scrum for a long time is hardly news. If bell and thor are not on the field they are woeful. So you are just plain wrong. They have very little time for the lions so doing the same old things that dont work is not going to get them there.


Ainsley is better than our next best tighthead options and has been playing well at scrum time for Lyon in the most competitive comp in the world. Superstar player? No. But better than the next best options. So that is a good enough guide. The scrummaging in the Prem is pretty good too so there is Sio's proof. Same analysis for him. Certainly better in both cases than Super, where the brumbies had the worst win loss and scrum pen in Super. Who plays there? Ohh yes... And the level of scrummaging in Super is well below the URC, prem and France with the SA teams out.


Nongorr is truly woeful. He's 130kg and gets shoved about. That just should not be happening at that weight for a specialist prop who has always played rugby cf pone with leauge. He has had enough time to develop at 23. You'd be better off with Pone who is at least good around the field for the moment and sending Nongorr on exchange to France or England to see if they can improve him with better coaching as happened with Skelton and Meafou. He isn't going to develop in time in super if he has it at all.


Latu is a better scrummaging hooker than BPA and Nasser. and he's the best aussie player over the ball at ruck time. McReight's super jackling percentage hasnt converted to international level but latu consistently does it at heniken level, which is similar to test level in the big games. With good coaching at La Rochelle he's much improved though still has the odd shocker. He should start the November games.

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