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Late change for England as Jack Nowell drops out

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England have been forced into a late change for their Autumn Nations Series game versus Japan as winger Jack Nowell has been withdrawn with injury before the pre-game warm-up at Twickenham. His place on the right wing has gone to Joe Cokanasiga, last week’s starting left wing who had lost his place to face the Japanese to the fit-again Jonny May.

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An RFU update read: “Jack Nowell has withdrawn from the England squad who will face Japan today due to an abdominal wall injury. Joe Cokanasiga will replace him in the England XV on at right wing.”

Vice-captain Nowell was set to win his 44th cap but instead a reprieve has been handed to Cokanasiga, one of five players who started last Sunday’s defeat to Argentina who were omitted at Thursday’s latest team naming.

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The exclusion of Cokanasiga was of three backline changes by Jones, who also included Jack van Poortvliet in place of the benched Ben Youngs and summer tour midfielder Guy Porter at outside centre with Manu Tuilagi dropping to the bench.

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JW 28 minutes ago
Why England's defence of the realm has crumbled without Felix Jones

This piece is nothing more than the result of revisionist fancy of Northern Hemisphere rugby fans. Seeing what they want to see, helped but some surprisingly good results and a desire to get excited about doing something well.


I went back through the 6N highlights and sure enough in every English win I remembered seeing these exact holes on the inside, that are supposedly the fallout out of a Felix Jones system breaking down in the hands of some replacement. Every time the commentators mentioned England being targeted up the seam/around the ruck or whatever. Each game had a try scored on the inside of the blitz, no doubt it was a theme throughout all of their games. Will Jordan specifically says that Holland had design that move to target space he saw during their home series win.


Well I'm here to tell you they were the same holes in a Felix Jones system being built as well. This woe is now sentiment has got to stop. The game is on a high, these games have been fantastic! It is Englands attack that has seen their stocks increase this year, and no doubt that is what SB told him was the teams priority. Or it's simply science, with Englands elite players having worked towards a new player welfare and management system, as part of new partnership with the ERU, that's dictating what the players can and can't put their bodies through.


The only bit of truth in this article is that Felix is not there to work on fixing his defence. England threw away another good chance of winning in the weekend when they froze all enterprise under pressure when no longer playing attacking footy for the second half. That mindset helped (or not helped if you like) of course by all this knee jerk, red brained criticism.

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