Slade takes centre stage in England squad
Rugby Union Weekly
BBC
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Sara and Danny react to England's 36-man squad for the Autumn Nations Series which sees Henry Slade included despite not yet playing for Exeter this season. Sara chats to Steve Borthwick about why he included Slade and the return of fellow centre Alex Lozowski to the England fold. With Alex Mitchell missing out through injury, we get Danny to predict how Borthwick will his scrum-halves during the November Tests. Is Ben Spencer finally going to get his first start for England? Sara also quizzes Borthwick on the numerous changes to his coaching staff over the summer and the decision to promote Richard Wigglesworth to senior assistant coach.
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| 0:50.0 | Well it's quite a busy week in sport. We're going to be talking about Steve Borthwick here on the |
| 0:59.1 | Rugby Union Weekly, of course in football there's Thomas Tooklel but in the Danny Care household it's all |
| 1:04.1 | about birthdays isn't it Danny? Too many birthday Sarah too many kids too many |
| 1:08.6 | birthdays as you can see in this corner is one of the balloons that still has some helium in but yeah my two |
| 1:15.4 | boys are born on the 8th and the 9th of October and then Coes is in about three weeks |
| 1:20.4 | times so it's busy at the moment for also very expensive month or so |
| 1:24.1 | the care house sold sorry well we're going to be talking about a different kind of |
| 1:27.9 | party that's heading our way of course the autumn internationals that's our |
| 1:31.6 | terrible segue, Danny Care. |
| 1:33.0 | Right, we're going to go through a few of the headlines because I've been at the Allian's |
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