England name wider touring Squad for June Tests

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Johnson names England squad for Aus.& NZ
http://www.super14.com/news/rugbyweek.asp?id=25818

Article Published: Tuesday 11 May 2010

England Boss Martin Johnson has named the revised Senior England Elite Playing Squad (EPS) for England's upcoming five match tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Lewis Moody is expected to lead England after Steve Borthwick's knee injury ruled him out of selection for the enlarged 44-man squad.

Moody took over as captain for the final match of the Six Nations, a 12-10 defeat to France in Paris, when Saracens lock Borthwick was forced to pull out through injury and the Leicester flanker is set to continue in the role on the five-match tour.

Olly Barkley's two-year England exile is over after he was included in the expanded group following a terrific end to the season with Bath, who have won 11 of their last 12 matches to qualify for the Premiership play-offs.

There is also no room for fly-half Danny Cipriani, who sustained a suspected broken thumb playing for Wasps at the weekend, but probably would not have made the squad anyway ahead of his September move to new Super 15 franchise the Melbourne Rebels.

England depart Down Under on May 31 for a tour that includes two Tests against Australia, on June 12 and 19, as well as two midweek matches against the Australian Barbarians and a game against the New Zealand Maoris.

Johnson's side take on the Barbarians at Twickenham on May 30 before they fly out.

SENIOR ENGLAND EPS SQUAD

FORWARDS

Steffon Armitage (London Irish)
**David Attwood (Gloucester Rugby)
Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers)
Tom Croft (Leicester Tigers)
Paul Doran-Jones (Gloucester Rugby)
Nick Easter (Harlequins)
David Flatman (Bath Rugby)
**Hendre Fourie (Leeds Carnegie)
**Jon Golding (Newcastle Falcons)
Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints)
James Haskell (Stade Francais)
Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints)
Lee Mears (Bath Rugby)
Lewis Moody (Leicester Tigers)
Tom Palmer (Stade Francais)
**Geoff Parling (Leicester Tigers)
Tim Payne (London Wasps)
Chris Robshaw (Harlequins)
Simon Shaw (London Wasps)
Steve Thompson (CA Brive)
**Dan Ward-Smith (London Wasps)
**Rob Webber (London Wasps)
Dave Wilson (Bath Rugby)
Joe Worsley (London Wasps)

BACKS
Delon Armitage (London Irish)
Chris Ashton (Northampton Saints)
Matt Banahan (Bath Rugby)
Olly Barkley (Bath Rugby)
Danny Care (Harlequins)
Mark Cueto (Sale Sharks)
Toby Flood (Leicester Tigers)
Ben Foden (Northampton Saints)
Shane Geragthy (Northampton Saints)
**Shontayne Hape (Bath Rugby)
Charlie Hodgson (Sale Sharks)
Ugo Monye (Harlequins)
**Joe Simpson (London Wasps)
David Strettle (Harlequins)
Mathew Tait (Sale Sharks)
Mike Tindall (Gloucester Rugby)
**Dominic Waldouck (London Wasps)
Richard Wigglesworth (Sale Sharks)
Jonny Wilkinson (RC Toulon)
Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers)


**Denotes uncapped player

---------- Post added at 07:40 ---------- Previous post was at 07:38 ----------

its gonna be a cracker!!!! A full strength NH squad for a change!!

[sandgroperrugby]

They would have been silly if they didnt bring the full strength squad ahead of the world cup next year.

I cant wait for the Wallabies to crush them at Spewbi.

[James]

By 30.

[welshrugbyfan]

Why oh why does it have to be at Subi?

Aargh I HATE that place and the hold it still has over rugby.

[Sheikh]

Then get thee down to MES, WRF, for the England v Barbars match!