England Summer Tour - New Zealand 2014
By Kath
May 15 2014
Stuart Lancaster will be announcing his updated squad next week
England Tour to New Zealand 2014
Head Coach Stuart Lancaster will continue his policy of taking an extended group of up to 40 players, with the aim to expose as many individuals as possible to the England touring environment as the journey to the world cup gathers pace.
Lancaster said: “This is our final tour before the world cup and it is massively important for us to benchmark ourselves against the number one team in the world. Playing three Tests and a midweek match will give us the opportunity to take 35 to 40 players who will get a chance to lay down a marker 15 months out from the tournament.”
(Live on SkySports 1 & HD1, kick-off times to be confirmed)
Saturday, June 7: 1st Test - 0800 Eden Park, Auckland
Saturday, June 14: 2nd Test - 0800 Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin
Tuesday, June 17: Crusaders - 0800 AMI (Addington) Stadium, Christchurch
Saturday, June 21: 3rd Test - 0800 Waikato Stadium, Hamilton
If you do not already have an account Click here to Register.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2014:06:23:12:57:55 by Kath..
Rugby: Throwing dud a lifeline sinks England credibility
5:00AM Sunday Jun 01, 2014 By Gregor Paul
There we were starting to believe in England when they go and do something silly. They have selected Danny Cipriani ... here
80 mins New Zealand 20-15 England
So what about Cips now then Luddite eh
Some of my thoughts....
I thought England was robbed. 3 occasions where the ABs may have earned a yellow card. Yarde's was well merited though.
Screwing the scrum: to me it looked like the ABs were wrongly penalised a couple of times. And an arbitrary penalty for squint put in. As if all the rest, both sides, were straight
Kicking the ball: far too often by both sides.
The tension of the game was mostly down to the closeness of the score.
There were a couple of big holes in the AB defence which the Roses exploited. There is little coordination between Cruden and Nonu. Not sure we will see both of them run out for the next test.
The English midfield were pretty switched on.
The breakout from their own goal line was very good - nearly scored just after narrowly avoiding the opposite.
3 possible yellows for NZ luddite, that's one more than I have seen any Englishman claim. When was the third? We claim Nonu's early pull back on Haskell and Barrett not releasing May on the line. Agree Yarde's was merited, but a bit gaulling after letting the NZ offences go.
How did you see the 2 knock ons he gave against May and Burns when fielding the ball deep, both of which clearly travelled backwards.
Pretty much every ref tends to guess at what's going on in the scrum, the side he believes to be 'superior' in that department tends to get the rub. The one squint that he penalised was particularly ridiculous, practically put the ball at the No8's feet.
NZ got around England defence on s couple of occasions, better hands would have seen them score earlier.
Unhappiness, where's when I was young
And we didn't give a damn
'Cause we were raised
To see life as a fun and take it if we can