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Five lives rugby union daily at the Rugby World Cup.

Rugby Union Daily Thursday afternoon we're back at the England team base, Grace, Rhymes.

Where England just named their team, South African and their team earlier, Marla Martin

Stuartle starting.

We'll pick through that in a bit, but to like to say we've got one of England's men

of the moment here in number eight Ben Earl, Ben World Cup semi-final, a pretty cool place

to be.

Yeah, awesome, isn't it?

It's just been buzzing all week.

It's almost like trying to temper that, I think, you know, leaning on some of those

boys that have been there before and talking to friends and family, almost trying to get

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