Fiji target upset over England

“I don’t care about the score, I just want to play well and win”, he said, adding that prop Samson Lee and full-back Liam Williams would both get run-outs after slowly coming back from injury.

After a “long” pre-season, Ghiraldini and the Italian squad are raring to go.

We think there might be some chinks (in England’s game) we might be able to exploit.

The Italians play France on Saturday (September 19) – a “tough challenge” – although Ghiraldini remains confident.

“The supporters sing and applaud when we miss a penalty, and whistle us if we do something they disapprove of in terms of playing style”.

“We really focused on the things that we need to do in the game”.

“It is a big threat on Friday night”, said Lancaster after naming an unchanged starting XV from the one who beat Six Nations champions Ireland in their final warm-up game.

But it doesn’t affect the way we prepare and the way we approach the game.

As reported in FBC, the Prime Minister had earlier turned down an offer by the FRU to cover the cost of his trip to the Rugby World Cup saying “more funds were needed to support the team to perform to the best of their ability at the world cup”. “I like it a lot”.

Ex-England captain Matt Dawson is calling on England fans to get behind their national team with their own haka.

Courtney Lawes has been chosen to partner line-out specialist Geoff Parling in the second row once again and Ben Morgan continues to be preferred to Billy Vunipola, who is selected among the replacements.

“I don’t think about it massively”, he said of his meteoric rise. To help answer this question I plan to look at the betting odds provided by Paddy Power to see which 7 teams are being hotly tipped to win the tournament, as well as providing my own personal predictions as to how each team will fare.

As a centre there was also a word about England’s current man-of-the-moment, Sam Burgess. “That in itself is a big motivator for the team’s performance”, he said.

“Picking up a ball at the age of six after watching the 1991 World Cup – when England actually got to the final – ever since then I have always wanted to play for England in a World Cup“, the 30-year-old told BBC Sport.

He said at the time: “This is a very exciting day – it is 100 days until the start of the Rugby World Cup“.

The Italian squad will be based at Cobham Rugby Club and ACS Cobham as part of their preparations later in the group stages. The allocations were made following a coin toss between the managers past year.