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England squad for a three-day alignment camp
DIR By: Joaquin
Date: September 6, 2026, 11:53 am
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Head coach Steve Borthwick has named his squad for a three-day
alignment camp at Pennyhill Park
6th September 2026
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Re: England squad for a three-day alignment camp
DIR By: FrostAndFire
Date: September 6, 2026, 2:51 pm
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A lot of those players haven't played a game since the England
tour. Why does he need them back already?
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Re: England squad for a three-day alignment camp
DIR By: JammyGit
Date: September 6, 2026, 4:21 pm
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He absolutely loves picking a squad of any kind
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Re: England squad for a three-day alignment camp
DIR By: KiltedQuin
Date: September 6, 2026, 5:08 pm
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What on earth is an ‘alignment’ camp? It can’t take 3 days to
learn to stand in a line!
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Re: England squad for a three-day alignment camp
DIR By: poorfour
Date: September 7, 2026, 12:08 am
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--- Quote from: FrostAndFire link ---
>
> A lot of those players haven't played a game since the England
tour. Why does he need them back already?
>
--- End Quote ---
They do a camp like this before every campaign. It’s where they
brief the players on the changes in the gameplan and IIRC do
physical testing to see what shape they’re in so that they know
if anyone needs particular oversight from the S&Cs or might need
replacing.
England’s tactics weren’t good enough over the summer to live
with the Boks, and therefore almost certainly not with the All
Blacks. I am really hoping they’ve got something better planned,
and this is where the players start to learn about it.
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Re: England squad for a three-day alignment camp
DIR By: SiB
Date: September 7, 2026, 12:35 am
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Two months until they play a game
Some are just off their rest period
Let’s just hope nobody gets broken
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Re: England squad for a three-day alignment camp
DIR By: Quinky
Date: September 7, 2026, 2:00 am
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--- Quote from: poorfour link ---
>
> England’s tactics weren’t good enough over the summer to live
with the Boks, and therefore almost certainly not with the All
Blacks.
>
--- End Quote ---
If recent weeks are anything to go by, England are a country
mile away from parity with either team.
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Re: England squad for a three-day alignment camp
DIR By: MaidstoneQuin
Date: September 7, 2026, 2:38 am
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Disappointed we are still persisting with JVP and Steward to
name a few. Good to see we are looking at the Bath hooker, but
really wish we would move on from at least LCD and possibly dan.
I think if Dan was seriously trusted by England he would have
had more gametime by now. Oghre and Langdon really should be
there over them
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Re: England squad for a three-day alignment camp
DIR By: Rugbycat
Date: September 7, 2026, 3:23 am
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Tuipulotu was always going to be selected at some point, after
all the effort to steer him away from Wales, was selected in the
A team last year to capture him, we badly need to consider who
is going to be hooker after the World Cup, and have some sort of
credible backup to George and LCD in case of injury for it, Dan
has gone backwards.
SB selection policy is just bizarre, and will leave the next
coach, having to select lots of very inexperienced at
international level players, as there is absolutely no
succession planning for aging players.
Tuipulotu’s sister who does play for Wales has joined us from
Gloucester Hartpury this season.
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Re: England squad for a three-day alignment camp
DIR By: FrostAndFire
Date: September 7, 2026, 3:58 am
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Wales and Scotland have Tuipulotus, so it was only fair that we
had one. (Not sure if Sione Tuipulotu is related to the other
two, but still.)
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