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CNA
20-05-2025
- Sport
- CNA
Feyi-Waboso back as England name 14 uncapped players in training squad
England have named wing Immanuel Feyi-Waboso in a 33-player training squad ahead of a July tour of the Americas as coach Steve Borthwick selected 14 uncapped players in the absence of his British & Irish Lions tourists. Borthwick's side will travel to Argentina and the United States, but before then face a France XV at Twickenham on June 21. The squad is without players from Bath and Northampton, who are involved in European club rugby finals this weekend. Feyi-Waboso had been out since December with a shoulder injury, but will be given a chance to audition for the July tour. The uncapped Bristol Bears pair of Joe Batley and Gabriel Oghre have been named alongside Exeter Chiefs forward Richard Capstick, and four players from Gloucester, Arthur Clark, Charlie Atkinson, Seb Atkinson and Afolabi Fasogbon. Oscar Beard, Luke Northmore and Jack Kenningham from Harlequins get the nod and Borthwick has rewarded Leicester Tigers' Emeka Ilione for his impressive recent form. Saracens wing Tobias Elliott and the Sale Sharks duo of Rekeiti Ma'asi-White and Joe Carpenter are also included. There are more established players in the form of loose forwards Ben Curry and Alex Dombrandt, and hooker Jamie George, who narrowly missed out on touring Australia with the Lions. Flyhalf George Ford is another unlucky not to be heading Down Under, while backs Henry Slade, Freddie Steward and Jack van Poortvliet are also selected. England's 33-player training squad: Forwards: Joe Batley (Bristol Bears) Fin Baxter (Harlequins) Richard Capstick (Exeter Chiefs) Arthur Clark (Gloucester Rugby) Ben Curry (Sale Sharks) Theo Dan (Saracens), Alex Dombrandt (Harlequins) Afolabi Fasogbon (Gloucester Rugby) Jamie George (Saracens) Joe Heyes (Leicester Tigers) Emeka Ilione (Leicester Tigers) Nick Isiekwe (Saracens) Jack Kenningham (Harlequins) Gabriel Oghre (Bristol Bears) Asher Opoku-Fordjour (Sale Sharks) Bevan Rodd (Sale Sharks) Tom Willis (Saracens) Backs: Charlie Atkinson (Gloucester Rugby) Seb Atkinson (Gloucester Rugby) Oscar Beard (Harlequins) Joe Carpenter (Sale Sharks) Tobias Elliott (Saracens) Immanuel Feyi-Waboso (Exeter Chiefs) George Ford (Sale Sharks) Rekeiti Ma'asi-White (Sale Sharks) Cadan Murley (Harlequins) Luke Northmore (Harlequins) Raffi Quirke (Sale Sharks) Harry Randall (Bristol Bears) Tom Roebuck (Sale Sharks) Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs) Freddie Steward (Leicester Tigers) Jack van Poortvliet (Leicester Tigers)
Daily Mail
20-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Immanuel Feyi-Waboso named in first England summer squad as wing nears return from long-term shoulder injury
Immanuel Feyi-Waboso has been named in England's first training squad of the summer as the Exeter wing nears a return to fitness from a long-term shoulder injury. Feyi-Waboso hasn't played since December when he suffered the problem in a Gallagher Premiership match against Sale. His time on the sidelines hindered his chances of being selected for the British & Irish Lions squad for the trip to Australia. As a centrally contracted England player, Feyi-Waboso's recovery was monitored by both the RFU and Exeter, although both parties have admitted the process could have been handled better. It was initially decided the player wouldn't have an operation in a bid to be fit for the Six Nations, but he then suffered a reoccurrence of the injury in training with England and was forced to go under the knife. That is why his England squad naming is significant. National head coach Steve Borthwick has named a 33-man squad for training at Pennyhill Park this week. He is without the 13 Englishmen selected by the Lions as well as all players from Northampton and Bath preparing for this weekend's European finals in Cardiff. As a result, there are a number of new faces in the likes of forwards Richard Capstick, Emeka Ilione and Jack Kenningham and backs Tobias Elliott and Rekeiti Ma'asi-White. They are among 14 uncapped players in the squad, although it is important to note England's final summer party is likely to look very different to this one. Forwards George Martin and Chandler Cunningham-South will continue their respective recoveries from injury as part of the squad this week. Without their captain Maro Itoje, who is leading the Lions Down Under and 12 other first-choice stars, England will play two games in Argentina and also face the USA in Washington this summer. It is a chance for Borthwick to give a chance to have a look at a new generation of players. An England XV will face a France XV at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham prior to the tour on Saturday, June 21. Borthwick's men will then head to the Americas for meetings with Argentina in La Plata and San Juan on July 5 and July 12 respectively. Given the Pumas will be at full strength and England's top stars will be on Lions duty, a tough and uncompromising challenge is expected. England's final game of the tour will be against the USA in Washington on July 19. Former England and current Leicester full-back Mike Brown has confirmed he will retire from rugby at the end of the season. The 39-year-old will bring down the curtain on a 20-year professional career which has seen him make 430 club appearances for Harlequins, Newcastle Falcons and the Tigers. Brown also made 72 Test appearances for England. England 33-man training squad Forwards: Joe Batley (Bristol Bears), Fin Baxter (Harlequins), Richard Capstick (Exeter Chiefs), Arthur Clark (Gloucester Rugby), Ben Curry (Sale Sharks), Theo Dan (Saracens), Alex Dombrandt (Harlequins), Afolabi Fasogbon (Gloucester Rugby), Jamie George (Saracens), Joe Heyes (Leicester Tigers), Emeka Ilione (Leicester Tigers), Nick Isiekwe (Saracens), Jack Kenningham (Harlequins), Gabriel Oghre (Bristol Bears), Asher Opoku-Fordjour (Sale Shark), Bevan Rodd (Sale Sharks), Tom Willis (Saracens) Backs: Charlie Atkinson (Gloucester Rugby), Seb Atkinson (Gloucester Rugby), Oscar Beard (Harlequins), Joe Carpenter (Sale Sharks), Tobias Elliott (Saracens), Immanuel Feyi-Waboso (Exeter Chiefs), George Ford (Sale Sharks), Rekeiti Ma'asi-White (Sale Sharks), Cadan Murley (Harlequins), Luke Northmore (Harlequins), Raffi Quirke (Sale Sharks), Harry Randall (Bristol Bears), Tom Roebuck (Sale Sharks), Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs), Freddie Steward (Leicester Tigers), Jack van Poortvliet (Leicester Tigers)
BBC News
19-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
England bolters, Steward's potential switch & a 'Carewell'
England will announce a training squad for their tour of Argentina and the United States later this those picked for the British and Irish Lions and players from Bath and Northampton, who are preparing for European finals, to be left out, there are some intriguing options pushing full-back Joe Carpenter put in another classy display at the back in the win over Bristol and has been integral to Sale's late-season Raffi Quirke came off the bench to score a sharp try, after Harry Randall had done similar for Bristol in the first half. Fellow nine Jack van Poortvliet impressed again for Leicester, delivering zippy service and setting up Joe Woodward's try with a well-weighted cross-field Adam Radwan now has nine tries in nine games since joining Tigers mid-season from Newcastle and will be difficult to Atkinson purred in Gloucester's midfield, deftly setting up Chris Harris and teenage wing Jack Cotgreave for tries and racing away for one of his own, as they beat number eight Tom Willis took out some of his frustration at being overlooked for the Lions with a big hit on Henry Pollock in Saracens' loss to back row Ethan Roots, whose last appearance for England was back in March 2024, also put in a timely performance, menacing the breakdown and rattling ribs in the loose against Harlequins. Will Evans, who leads the league's turnover charts with team-mate Jack Kenningham, was also in typically light-fingered form, pilfering ball on the last time England toured Argentina in a Lions year, a teenage Tom Curry made his debut. Only injury has shifted him from England's back row ever since. Opportunity knocks. Dunn's dummy raises more questions Tom Dunn had a landmark to celebrate on Saturday. On the occasion of becoming Bath's all-time leading appearance-maker in Premiership history, he plucked a party piece out of his pocket - selling Leicester full-back Freddie Steward an outrageous dummy before sauntering in for the league leaders' fourth has been stepped by far more agile attackers. Jamison Gibson-Park, Grant Williams and Cheslin Kolbe all evaded him with unsettling ease on Test duty this season. Steward revealed on Stick to Rugby earlier this month, external that one-on-one defence was an area England coach Steve Borthwick had told him to improve also suggested that he would be open to trying a switch to inside centre, where England have relatively fewer options, he is less exposed to pace and his powerful, rangy running and brave front-on tackling could add Roberts and Jordie Barrett both made similar moves out of the back three into midfield in their England's sometime centre option, back rower Ben Earl, on tour with the British and Irish Lions this summer, could Steward's move to 12 be an experiment for England's tour of Argentina? Speedy Gonzalez set to test England Perhaps the most in-form man of all will turn out for the Pumas flanker Juan Martin Gonzalez has scored eight tries in his last six games as the ground has firmed up and his fast, lung-burning game has come into its 24-year-old had to come off just before half-time at Franklin's Gardens on Saturday with a knock, but his team's loss means he is likely to have more time to slipping to sixth place with their last-gasp, possibly-forward-pass defeat by Northampton means they need to beat a Bath team, who may well rest their front-line stars, and hope for slip-ups from two of the teams above them in the final round if they are to extend their campaign into the Sarries fail to make it, this will be the first time in 16 years that they have failed to make the play-offs in a Premiership campaign unaffected by their salary-cap scandal. Seismic semi-finals shape up The play-off permutations are Bristol can do a number on a Harlequins team with nothing to play for on a Super Saturday round of simultaneous kick-offs in a fortnight's time, they will likeliest end up in fourth tableThat outcome would set up a West Country ding-dong with leaders Bath at the Rec in the take on bottom side Newcastle on the final day so should secure the other home semi-final, with third-placed Sale, who have won five of their past six in the Premiership and travel to Exeter, their most probable like Saracens, lurk, hoping to capitalise on any deviation from the form book. Care departs on his own terms A scrum, centre field, five metres out from the Exeter line, the Stoop singing his name, a minute left on the clock - it seemed set up for a final Danny Care snipe to send off his rugby career with a it doesn't work that that. Not usually. And not this still, the former England scrum-half ended the match and his career on his own term, kicking into touch to secure the team win, rather than search for a touch of personal scenes at the end were sweet. Harlequins players queued up to embrace their departing team-mate, before bearing him from the pitch on their de-mob rest for the 38-year-old morning meant he was back on the Rugby Union Weekly sofa for his first appearance as a full-time civilian.
