England head coach Eddie Jones announces updated squad

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by Steven Smith

Thursday, 15 October 2020 at 18:33

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England head coach Eddie Jones has named a 26-man squad to take part in a three-day training camp.

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Eddie Jones has named 2️⃣6️⃣ players to take part in a three day training camp 🌹 An additional 7️⃣ players will be in camp for reconditioning 💪 More details ⤵️ #WearTheRose @O2sports

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England have six upcoming fixtures this autumn starting with the uncapped Quilter Cup against the Barbarians (25 October, KO 2pm GMT, live on Sky Sports).

Following a trip to Rome to face Italy (31 Oct, KO 4.45pm GMT, live on ITV) in the final round of the delayed 2020 Guinness Six Nations, England will play four matches as part of the Autumn Nations Cup.

England will play Quilter Internationals at Twickenham Stadium against Georgia (14 November, KO 3pm) and Ireland (21 November, KO 3pm), an away match v Wales (28 November, KO 4pm) before returning to Twickenham for a placing match to determine final position in the competition (6 December, KO 2pm). All Autumn Nations Cup games will be live on Amazon Prime.

Forwards

Tom Curry, Sale Sharks
Alex Dombrandt, Harlequins*
Tom Dunn, Bath Rugby*
Ellis Genge, Leicester Tigers
Jamie George, Saracens
Joe Heyes, Leicester Tigers*
Ted Hill, Worcester Warriors
Maro Itoje, Saracens
Simon Kerrod, Harlequins*
Beno Obano, Bath Rugby*
David Ribbans, Northampton Saints*
Billy Vunipola, Saracens
Mark Wilson, Newcastle Falcons

Backs

Ali Crossdale, Saracens*
Elliot Daly, Saracens
Tom de Glanville, Bath Rugby*
Fraser Dingwall, Northampton Saints*
Owen Farrell, Saracens
George Ford, Leicester Tigers
Willi Heinz, Gloucester Rugby
Ollie Lawrence, Worcester Warriors*
Joe Marchant, Harlequins
Jonny May, Gloucester Rugby
Alex Mitchell, Northampton Saints*
Ollie Thorley, Gloucester Rugby*
Ben Youngs, Leicester Tigers

Reconditioning

Charlie Ewels, Bath Rugby
Jonathan Joseph, Bath Rugby
Joe Marler, Harlequins
Will Stuart, Bath Rugby
Sam Underhill, Bath Rugby
Mako Vunipola, Saracens
Anthony Watson, Bath Rugby

* denotes uncapped player

QUILTER CUP 2020

Sunday 25 October 2020: England v Barbarians, KO 14:00 GMT, Twickenham Stadium

(LIVE on Sky Sports Arena)

GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2020

Saturday 31 October 2020: Italy v England KO 16:45 GMT, Stadio Olimpico, Rome (LIVE on ITV)

ENGLAND MEN 2020 QUILTER INTERNATIONALS AS PART OF THE AUTUMN NATIONS CUP

Saturday 14 November 2020: England v Georgia KO 15:00 GMT, Twickenham Stadium (LIVE on Amazon Prime)
Saturday 21 November 2020: England v Ireland KO 15:00 GMT, Twickenham (LIVE on Amazon Prime and Channel 4)
Saturday 28 November 2020: Wales v England KO 16:00 GMT, venue TBC (LIVE on Amazon Prime)ma
Sunday 6 December 2020: England v TBC KO 14:00 GMT, Twickenham Stadium (LIVE on Amazon Prime)

5 people who should avoid reading Joe Marler’s new autobiography

1. Joe Launchbury

The England ptop, in his section on teammates nicknames, reveals an uncomplimentary one given to the Wasps captain during England duty.

Due to him forever knocking everything over with his backside, the biggest in world rugby, Marler joked 'your ass is like a permanent slosh bucket.'

Long story short, he hated it but is still known as 'Slosh' or 'Slosh bucket' to this day in England training/

2. Gavin Henson

Despite this being another rather funny story from Marler, it also shows the ego of Henson in 2005 was off the scale. Being told to hurry up with his hair by his captain Gareth Thomas, the playmaker showed his skipper little respect.

Henson's reply to Thomas was: "Alf, your mother and father have come to watch you play today, but there are 72,000 out there who have come to watch me."

3. Olly Kohn

One of the hands down best stories from the book comes from a wet and windy away game in Biarritz where Marler thought he might 'freeze to death in a cloud of garlic breath and BO.'

A desperate idea saw the prop piss himself, and after being sussed out by teammate Kohn, the lock joined him, 'piising their pants in unison in an effort to survive.'

The two then promised to never speak about the incident, which Marler apologies for breaking in his book by simply saying 'sorry mate'.

4. Jonny May

This isn't necessarily a negative story about the speedster, but having the fact you take part in WWE like wrestling in your underpants published to the masses probably isn't ideal.

Marler tells a wonderful story of how their epic one-on-one match from behind closed doors was discovered by 2003 World Cup winner and then England coach Mike Catt in 2013.

This resulted in the pair having to wrestle in front of their teammates with May coming out on top after Marler was forced to start on his knees due to his weight advantage.

Marler went onto say: "It was always Jonny who usually tapped out. He was incredibly fit and strong and his wrestling skills were awesome, but being the much chunkier bloke I beat im every time."

Later on, Marler tells the story of May scoring a try for England U20 with his ass off in incredible detail, saying at one point: "I mean, it wasn't just a bit of bum crack or half a cheek poking out. This was full moon."

5. Dwayne Peel

The loosehead prop tells a wonderful story of how the legendary Wales scrum-half, who won 76 caps between 2001 and 2011, got a taste of his own medicine when his pranks became too much for some of his teammates.

"He'd tested his teammates' patience by putting bikes and beans in their (Wales squads) beds." wrote Marler.

"The lads decided to retaliate, with one of them borrowing a sheep from a local farmer and leaving it in Peel's hotel room.

"The flea-ridden sheep had pooed on the carpet before Peel discovered it, and legend has i he was itching for days afterwards."

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