Gloucester pair out of England squad

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Tuesday, March 09, 2010
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GLOUCESTER pair Mike Tindall and Olly Morgan should be available for this weekend's LV= Cup semi-final clash with Cardiff after being left out of the England squad to face Scotland.

The pair were drafted in to the England Elite Performance Squad yesterday as injury cover for Leicester's Dan Hipkiss and London Irish's Delon Armitage respectively.

Wasps back row Joe Woesley will make his first start of the 2010 RBS 6 Nations campaign against Scotland at Murrayfield on Saturday (5pm).

Both could still be unnavailable for Gloucester however, if England Team Manager Martin Johnson decides to take them to Edinburgh as travelling reserves.

Johnson makes two changes to his starting line-up with Worsley in for Lewis Moody (Leicester Tigers) at openside and Louis Deacon (Leicester Tigers) continuing in the second row after replacing injured lock Simon Shaw (London Wasps) in the early stages against Ireland.

There is a newcomer on the replacements bench in uncapped Leicester Tigers scrum half Ben Youngs.

The 20 year old, who played for England in last summer's IRB Junior World Championship final, takes over from Paul Hodgson (London Irish).

Also added to the bench is Youngs's former England U20 teammate Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints), who won his first cap as a replacement against Australia last November, while Steve Thompson (CA Brive) returns as the replacement hooker.

ENGLAND TEAM

15 Delon Armitage (London Irish)

14 Mark Cueto (Sale Sharks)

13 Mathew Tait (Sale Sharks)

12 Riki Flutey (CA Brive)

11 Ugo Monye (Harlequins)

10 Jonny Wilkinson (Toulon)

9 Danny Care (Harlequins)

1 Tim Payne (London Wasps)

2 Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints)

3 Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers)

4 Louis Deacon (Leicester Tigers)

5 Steve Borthwick (Saracens, Captain)

6 James Haskell (Stade Francais)

7 Joe Worsley (London Wasps)

8 Nick Easter (Harlequins)

REPLACEMENTS

16 Steve Thompson (CA Brive)

17 David Wilson (Bath Rugby)

18 Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints)

19 Lewis Moody (Leicester Tigers)

20 Ben Youngs* (Leicester Tigers)

21 Toby Flood (Leicester Tigers)

22 Ben Foden (Northampton Saints)

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    by Roger the Dodger, Gloucester

    Tuesday, March 09 2010, 10:48PM

    “Just stick more Kiwis in!”

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    by upinthebalcony, glaws

    Tuesday, March 09 2010, 7:48PM

    “im sorry..how is tindall even in the elite squad. would it not be reasonable to expect him to play club rugby for more than 80mins before playing for england.
    talk about job for the boys mr johnson!!!”

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    by Ron, Gloucester

    Tuesday, March 09 2010, 2:56PM

    “Thank goodness for that!”

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