Latest England Rugby Union News

Saracens captain Steve Borthwick has torn his quadriceps muscle and has been ruled out of the first two games of the Aviva Premiership season.
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England back Riki Flutey says that he is confident that England will be able to compete with the All Blacks at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
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Lewis Moody feels that he has proved his leadership skills to England Boss Martin Johnson and hopes that he has done enough to be able to keep the captaincy through to the World Cup in New Zealand next year.
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Former England Saracens prop Matt Stevens has been told that he will be looked at with a clean slate by the England management.
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Martin Johnson wants England to pay special attention and focus on the ruck over the next series of matches coming in November.
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England world cup winning flanker Neil Back says that he believes Leeds forward Hendre Fourie could turn out to be England's first-choice openside flanker ahead of next year's World Cup in New Zealand.
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England manager Martin Johnson said Wednesday it "didn't get any tougher" than dropping former captain Steve Borthwick from his senior 32 man squad.
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Saracens coach Brendan Venter has backed banned England prop Matt Stevens to earn a surprise Test recall for the Six Nations.
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New England scrum half Ben Youngs believes that England can win the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand next year if they can build on their victory over Australia.
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England's star fly half Jonny Wilkinson will miss England training as his club will not release him for the England elite squad scheduled for this month.
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Martyn Thomas who is expected to stand down as chairman of the Rugby Football Union next summer will continue in the game as he will be given a role England's hosting of the 2015 World Cup.
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Martyn Thomas who is expected to stand down as chairman of the Rugby Football Union next summer will continue in the game as he will be given a role England's hosting of the 2015 World Cup.
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Former Lions coach Ian McGeechan and now Bath's new performance director feels that Martin Johnson's squad are the best placed northern-hemisphere side to develop into a unit over the next 12 months capable of lifting the Webb Ellis Cup.
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Former England scrumhalf Harry Ellis has announced that he has been forced to retire after failing to recover from a series of knee injuries.
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England have named the 32-man Senior squad for the 2010/11 season with former England captain Steve Borthwick being dropped to the Saxons squad.
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Former England captain Steve Borthwick is set to be excluded from Martin Johnson's 32-strong England elite player squad for next season. Thirty year old
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England's 2007 Rugby World Cup coach Brian Ashton MBE has agreed to return to his old club Fylde RFC as Coaching Consultant.
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Martin Johnson has admitted that losing to the New Zealand Maori will "rankle for a while" after England led at half time but let NZ Maoris back into the match.
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England finished their June tour of Australasia with a 35-28 loss against the New Zealand Maori in Napier on Wednesday. Wing Hosea Gear scored three of the New Zealand Maori's four tries.
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Chris Ashton is the only player from the England starting team that beat Australia to be named to face the New Zealand Maori rugby team at Napier.
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England manager has hailed his team's win over Australia as "pretty special" and says that he had never considered quitting. "I think we played pretty well,"
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The New Zealand Maori has made two changes to the team that beat Ireland for Wednesday's match against England at Napier.
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England ended a three match losing streak against Australia with a 20-21 victory in Sydney on Saturday.
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England have named their team to face Australia in the second test with two changes from the team that lost last weekend in Perth.
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England winger Matt Banahan will miss his team's second test against the Wallabies after he was given a two week ban on Wednesday.
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