The England Line Up for France

First topic message reminder :

SL has announced an unchanged starting 15, with two changes on the bench. Palmer for Lawes and Hodgson for Flood.

15 Ben Foden (Northampton Saints)
14 Chris Ashton (Northampton Saints)
13 Manusamoa Tuilagi (Leicester Tigers)
12 Brad Barritt (Saracens)
11 David Strettle (Saracens)
10 Owen Farrell (Saracens)
9 Lee Dickson (Northampton Saints)
1 Alex Corbisiero (London Irish)
2 Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints)
3 Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers)
4 Mouritz Botha (Saracens)
5 Geoff Parling (Leicester Tigers)
6 Tom Croft (Leicester Tigers)
7 Chris Robshaw (Harlequins, capt)
8 Ben Morgan (Scarlets)

Replacements

16 Rob Webber (London Wasps)
17 Matt Stevens (Saracens)
18 Tom Palmer (Stade Francais)
19 Phil Dowson (Northampton Saints)
20 Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers)
21 Charlie Hodgson (Saracens)
22 Mike Brown (Harlequins)


Comments please.

maes

I will admit i have been realy impressed with Morgan, he has been playing realy well/better than i thought he would.

But Crane has been injured for quite along time, will he make it back to full fitness?

I do love to proved wrong about certain players, and would loved to be proved wrong about Crane as well.

France are going to stuff us on Sunday and there is absolutely nothing that we can do about it. It will start with the restarts, scrums, lineouts and breakdown area and finish with a stuffing on the scoreboard.

We might as well just assume the position now.

Have great weekends everyone. My wife is dreading hers.

Triangulation wrote:France are going to stuff us on Sunday and there is absolutely nothing that we can do about it. It will start with the restarts, scrums, lineouts and breakdown area and finish with a stuffing on the scoreboard.

We might as well just assume the position now.

Have great weekends everyone. My wife is dreading hers.

Well then Triangulation, if that is the case(that France are going to stuff us) is it worth England even turning up for the game?

It was the right idea to keep the same team, apart from Ashton I reckon who should have at least been dropped to the bench. Why not put Brown on the wing for one game? The other changes would have been the bench (Marler, etc) but apart from that, this is the team that should take England forward .

Triangulation wrote:France are going to stuff us on Sunday and there is absolutely nothing that we can do about it. It will start with the restarts, scrums, lineouts and breakdown area and finish with a stuffing on the scoreboard.

We might as well just assume the position now.

Have great weekends everyone. My wife is dreading hers.

she isnt looking forward to getting stuffed by a frenchman then?

Sharples is now to be involved, as Strettle is injured - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/17325446

ChequeredJersey wrote:Sharples is now to be involved, as Strettle is injured - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/17325446

Just heard this on radio five.

Bad luck Strettle he has been the best back in the England team this year.

Good opportunity for Sharples, hopefully he can do what Ashton and Foden so far have not maybe keeping his place to play Ireland.

Good opportunity for Sharples, lets hope he gets plenty of ball to use as I worry a bit about his D.

Good boy, Charlie!

This is the litmus test for England for the rest of their year. England have shown a sliver of improvement since the Wcup with each outing but have yet to deliver anything substantial or show signs they are on the improve.

I think they'll beat France by a mere point or two unless France do a 'France' in which case they'll go away. But any low scoring tight tussle will suit England who will do just enough to edge it.

Ashton reverting back to his favoured right wing & Sharples coming is a good move for the team.

Let's hope the wings seem some action!