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England have made two changes to their starting line-up for tomorrow night’s IRB Junior World Championship final against New Zealand.
The Six Nations champions extended their unbeaten run to nine games this season by beating South Africa 26-18 in Wednesday night’s semi-final and now they face the number one seeds at the Liberty Stadium, Swansea (7pm). Leading try-scorer Noah Cato (Saracens) switches to full back and Mark Odejobi (London Wasps) starts on the wing after Alex Tait (Newcastle Falcons) was ruled out with an ankle injury. In the back-row Jon Fisher (London Irish) replaces Matthew Cox (Worcester Warriors) at blind-side. Odejobi’s place on the bench is taken by Harlequins wing Seb Stegmann. England Under 20 team 15 Noah Cato (Saracens) 14 Mark Odejobi (London Wasps) 13 Luke Eves (Bristol Rugby) 12 Jordan Turner-Hall (Harlequins) 11 Miles Benjamin (Worcester Warriors) 10 Alex Goode (Saracens) 9 Joe Simpson (London Wasps) 1 Nathan Catt (Bath Rugby) 2 Joe Gray (Northampton Saints) 3 Alex Corbisiero (London Irish) 4 Ben Thomas (Saracens) 5 Gregor Gillanders (Leicester Tigers) 6 Jon Fisher (London Irish) 7 Calum Clark (Leeds Carnegie) 8 Hugo Ellis (London Wasps, captain) Replacements 16 Scott Freer (Leeds Carnegie) 17 Billy Moss (Bath Rugby) 18 Scott Hobson (Cornish Pirates) 19 Matthew Cox (Worcester Warriors) 20 Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers) 21 Rob Miller (Newcastle Falcons) 22 Seb Stegmann (Harlequins) |