George Robson to lead England – Rugby News Update
George Robson, the 26-year-old England Harlequins lock is set to lead England against the South African Barbarians (South) on Wednesday.
England is currently touring South Africa, and besides playing a three-match test series, they are to play two midweek games, the first of which takes place in Kimberley.
England will put out a new-look squad than the one that played last weekend against the Springboks. They lost the match convincingly 22 -17.
Stuart Lancaster, the head coach of England, is looking forward to the match, to give the rest of his squad a run-out. He spoke about Robson, who he has chosen to lead the team.
He said, "George (Robson) has had a tremendous season for Harlequins, has made a great contribution to this tour already, both in training and as part of the leadership group, and I know he will captain the team well. Only Ugo Monye and Alex Corbisiero will
not have had any game time by the end of Wednesday but there will still be three matches to go and their opportunity will come."
"Every one of the 22 is desperate to play," said Lancaster. "They have trained superbly and their attitude while waiting for their chance has been first class."
Squads:
England: Alex Goode (Saracens); David Strettle (Saracens), Anthony Allen (Leicester Tigers), Jordan Turner-Hall (Harlequins), Christian Wade (London Wasps); Charlie Hodgson (Saracens), Danny Care (Harlequins); Matt Mullan (Worcester Warriors), Joe Gray (Harlequins),
Paul Doran Jones (Northampton Saints), Graham Kitchener (Leicester Tigers), George Robson (capt, Harlequins), James Haskell (Otago Highlanders), Carl Fearns (Bath Rugby), Thomas Waldrom (Leicester Tigers)
Replacements: Tom Youngs (Leicester Tigers), Rupert Harden (Gloucester Rugby), Tom Palmer (Stade Francais), Jamie Gibson (London Irish), Lee Dickson (Northampton Saints), George Lowe (Harlequins), Nick Abendanon (Bath Rugby)
SA Barbarians: Jacquin Jansen (Boland); Cornal Hendricks (Boland), Kempie Rautenbach (SWD), Wayne Stevens (EP Kings, capt), Norman Nelson (EP Kings); Elgar Watts (Boland), Boela Abrahams (EP Kings); Corne Fourie (Pumas), Hannes Franklin (EP Kings), Ross
Geldenhuys (Boland), Nolan Clark (Boland), David Bulbring (EP Kings), Mpho Mbiyozo (EP Kings), Shaun Raubenheimer (SWD), Jacques Engelbrecht (EP Kings)
Replacements: Clemen Lewis (Boland), Dean Hopp (SWD), Samora Fihlani (Border), Zandre Jordaan (Boland), Ntando Kebe (Border), Ricardo Croy (Boland), Ntabeni Dukisa (Border).
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