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Your 31 man Squad and Starting 15 for Your country in the Rugby World Cup 2019 guys part 2 :)
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<blockquote data-quote="Roady" data-source="post: 947588" data-attributes="member: 78813"><p>From what I have seen - though I may be wrong - this camp has been labelled as a skills development camp. Due to the volume of Semi's/Final players unavailable and by Eddie's choice of omissions and some of the inclusions, I see it more as some of the bolters and players with question marks over them being given a chance to make it further in the selection process with a keen eye on them. EJ knows exactly what he is getting from players like Hughes, Care and Robshaw, so I imagine there is no need for them to be there. I think the odds are beyond slim that they have all been booted out of the WC before the first training camp.</p><p></p><p>If Hartley is indeed ruled out completely for the WC as you say then LCD comes up to the bench behind George. Beyond that I am not too sure either, I quite like Dunn though.</p><p></p><p>I think Wilson's excellent run of form takes him ahead of Robshaw, though Robshaw's experience and leadership leaves him well ahead of Shields in my mind. Where he fits in against Itoje or Lawes at 6 is a bit unclear though personally I am not a big fan of locks at blindside. Nor do I think Robshaw is an openside.</p><p></p><p>Care has played well this season and has 80 odd caps to his name compared to the handful everyone bar Youngs has. I think EJ is clear in his mind that they are the starting pair, he needs to be sure of his back up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roady, post: 947588, member: 78813"] From what I have seen - though I may be wrong - this camp has been labelled as a skills development camp. Due to the volume of Semi's/Final players unavailable and by Eddie's choice of omissions and some of the inclusions, I see it more as some of the bolters and players with question marks over them being given a chance to make it further in the selection process with a keen eye on them. EJ knows exactly what he is getting from players like Hughes, Care and Robshaw, so I imagine there is no need for them to be there. I think the odds are beyond slim that they have all been booted out of the WC before the first training camp. If Hartley is indeed ruled out completely for the WC as you say then LCD comes up to the bench behind George. Beyond that I am not too sure either, I quite like Dunn though. I think Wilson's excellent run of form takes him ahead of Robshaw, though Robshaw's experience and leadership leaves him well ahead of Shields in my mind. Where he fits in against Itoje or Lawes at 6 is a bit unclear though personally I am not a big fan of locks at blindside. Nor do I think Robshaw is an openside. Care has played well this season and has 80 odd caps to his name compared to the handful everyone bar Youngs has. I think EJ is clear in his mind that they are the starting pair, he needs to be sure of his back up. [/QUOTE]
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