[Bucks1861]

Congratulations to our boys. Fantastic to see so many selected.



England U20 men’s squad (Warwick University camp)

Forwards (17):
Aiden Ainsworth-Cave (Northampton Saints, uncapped)
Tom Burrow (Sale Sharks, uncapped)
Jos Gilmore (Sale Sharks, uncapped)
Louie Gulley (Exeter Chiefs, uncapped)
Reggie Hammick (Saracens, uncapped)
Kane James (Exeter Chiefs, 9 caps)
Seb Kelly (Sale Sharks, uncapped)
Alfie Longstaff (Sale Sharks, uncapped)
Tubuna Maka (Leicester Tigers, uncapped)
Ralph McEachran (Sale Sharks, uncapped)
Tye Raymont (Sale Sharks, uncapped)
Oli Scola (Northampton Saints, uncapped)
Jimmy Staples (Harlequins, uncapped)
Ollie Streeter (Harlequins, uncapped)
Ethan Surrey (Bristol Bears, uncapped)
George Timmins (Bath Rugby, 2 caps)
Sam Williams (Leicester Tigers, uncapped)

Backs (15):
Nic Allison (Exeter Chiefs, uncapped)
Josh Bellamy (Harlequins, 10 caps)
Jack Bracken (Saracens, 5 caps)
Ben Coen (Exeter Chiefs, 5 caps)
Ollie Davies (Sale Sharks, uncapped)
Charlie Griffin (Bath Rugby, uncapped)
Dom Hanson (Sale Sharks, uncapped)
Jack Kinder (Leicester Tigers, uncapped)
Nick Lilley (Exeter Chiefs, uncapped)
Frank McMillan (Harlequins, uncapped)
George Pearson (Leicester Tigers, uncapped)
Campbell Ridl (Exeter Chiefs, uncapped)
Jez Tuima (Provence, uncapped)
Jonny Weimann (Northampton Saints, uncapped)
Toby Wilson (Sale Sharks, uncapped)

[DavenportSharky]

9 out of 32 is impressive.
Not so impressive if you support Gloucester or Newcastle.

[Evo]

Fantastic recognition for the club and its coaching and development infrastructure. All the best to the lads involved.

[Olyy]

One starter and six on the bench for the game vs Bath A this weekend

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[SSR]

Is Ollie Davies the reason we are not commiting to Tom Curtis as backup 10 ?

[Olyy]

England U20 Men team to face Ireland (includes current club, community club and U20 caps) 

15 Jack Kinder (Leicester Tigers, Silhillians RUFC, uncapped) 
14 Jack Bracken (Saracens, Barnet Elizabethans, 5 caps) 
13 Angus Hall (Saracens, Sevenoaks Rugby Club, 6 caps) 
12 Nic Allison (Exeter Chiefs, Bishops Diocesan College, uncapped) 
11 Charlie Griffin (Bath Rugby, Rosslyn Park, uncapped) 
10 Ben Coen (Exeter Chiefs, Teignmouth RFC, 5 caps) 
9 Archie McParland (Northampton Saints, Ruthin RFC, 5 caps) 

1 Ralph McEachran (Sale Sharks, Guildford RFC, uncapped) 
2 Kepu Tuipulotu (Bath Rugby, Cwmbran RFC, uncapped) 
3 Vilikesa Sela (Bath Rugby, Royal Wootton Bassett RFC, 9 caps) 
4 Olamide Sodeke (Saracens, Blackheath Rugby Club, 11 caps) 
5 Tom Burrow (c) (Sale Sharks, Morley RUFC, uncapped)  
6 Junior Kpoku (Racing 92, Saracens Amateurs, 11 caps)  
7 Henry Pollock (Northampton Saints, Buckingham Rugby Club, 12 caps) 
8 Kane James (Exeter Chiefs, St. Peter’s RFC, 9 caps) 

Replacements 
16 Louie Gulley (Exeter Chiefs, Crediton RFC, uncapped) 
17 Oli Scola (Northampton Saints, Old Northamptonians RFC, uncapped) 
18 Tye Raymont (Sale Sharks, West Park Leeds RFC, uncapped) 
19 Aiden Ainsworth-Cave (Northampton Saints, Bedford Junior Blues, uncapped) 
20 George Timmins (Bath Rugby, Market Harborough RUFC, 2 caps) 
21 Lucas Friday (Harlequins, Bromley RFC, 6 caps) 
22 Josh Bellamy (Harlequins, Rosslyn Park, 10 caps) 
23 Nick Lilley (Exeter Chiefs, Ivybridge RFC, uncapped) 


Two starters and one on the bench - congrats to all, and especially to Tom captaining the side!
Looking forward to seeing more of Ramont

[Olyy]

Only half watched the game but looked like poor conditions and not one for the ages - good win though, especially with being down to 13 in the first half

Very silly yellow for Burrows, but he grew into the game
McEachran had a few scrum wobbles early but grew into the game - won a few pens and leaked a few, scrums felt a bit of a coin flip tbh

Bench front row barely got a handful of minutes between them, so didn't see much of Ramont - not sure if the plan is to start them all next game, or something, and share the minutes out that way?

[Lord Elpus]

FT for Roy 3 : 19 (pen try, 4 pens Coen)

I thought Tye was spared because of the 60 mins he played v Bath

Far too many schoolboy errors from England.

As usual with England sides the 10,12,13 axis didn't really work.

Fwiw I thought Pollock motm. Coen dead eye kicker.

[exileneal]

Team is out for Friday versus the French:

McEachran starts at Loosehead and Burrow captains from lock.

Raymont and Hanson on the bench covering tighthead and scrum-half respectively.

Congratulations to all!

[Lord Elpus]

Dom scores!

[Olyy]

Didn't realise Davies actually got parachuted on the bench - just presumed he got pulled from our game to be a traveling reserve


England not fully clicking yet but that's two very solid wins - odds on for a grandslam now? Italy will have something to say about it, but with them losing to Wales tonight maybe this crop isn't as good as the last couple of years

[exileneal]

Team announced for the game against the Scots.

Ralph McEachran and Tye Raymont are the props whilst Tom Burrow captains again in the second row.

Congratulations to our young men!

[Olyy]

Osian Roberts starting at 13 for Wales and Wootton on the bench for Ireland too

[Lord Elpus]

HT 31 : 8 Tye scored bp try with a neat nutmeg.

[Lord Elpus]

Burrow try 38 : 8

[Lord Elpus]

Sale props off -

[Lord Elpus]

FT 57 : 13 Burrow very athletic- lineout good.

[Olyy]

Wootton finally on for Ireland - thought their starting 9 has been poor, surprised it's taken 74mins to make the switch

Not seen much of Roberts for Wales, but they've been on defence the majority of the time - over 200 tackles made so far and their captain, the Tigers openside, has made over 30

[exileneal]

England team to face Italy includes a number of Sale boys:

Tye Raymont at Tighthead, Tom Burrow at Lock (also captain) and Don Hanson at Scrum-half are in the starting XV.

Ralph MacEachran and Ollie Davies are replacements also.

Congratulations to them all!

[Olyy]

Wooton starting for Ireland u20 too!

Quite the round

[Clutch]

Warr 5th choice now then?!

[Bucks1861]

England U20 - title decider teams.

15 George Pearson (Leicester Tigers, Buckingham RFC, 2 caps)

14 Jack Bracken (Saracens, Barnet Elizabethans, 9 caps)

13 Angus Hall (Saracens, Sevenoaks Rugby Club, 10 caps)

12 Nic Allison (Exeter Chiefs, Bishops Diocesan College, 3 caps)

11 Jack Kinder (Leicester Tigers, Silhillians RUFC, 3 caps)

10 Ben Coen (Exeter Chiefs, Teignmouth RFC, 8 caps)

9 Dom Hanson (Sale Sharks, Stockport RFC, 2 caps)


1 Ralph McEachran (Sale Sharks, Guildford RFC, 4 caps)

2 Kepu Tuipulotu (Bath Rugby, Cwmbran RFC, 4 caps)

3 Tye Raymont (Sale Sharks, West Park Leeds RFC, 4 caps)

4 Olamide Sodeke (Saracens, Blackheath Rugby Club, 15 caps)

5 Tom Burrow (c) (Sale Sharks, Morley RUFC, 4 caps)

6 Junior Kpoku (Racing 92, Saracens Amateurs, 14 caps)

7 George Timmins (Bath Rugby, Market Harborough RUFC, 6 caps)

8 Kane James (Exeter Chiefs, St. Peter’s RFC, 13 caps)


Congratulations to our boys. And good luck to you all.

[ale shark]

Anyone know why/how a Racing 92 player gets selected? Just interested.

[Olyy]

EPS agreement doesn't extend to age grade rugby

[ale shark]

Cheers Olyy, bit odd if it’s a professional contract. Anyway, Come On England!

[Lord Elpus]

Clubs can retain U20 players ; Coen played for Exeter last Saturday.

[Olyy]

Some start for our lads!

Monster scrum and then McEachran scores a beauty of a try

[Lord Elpus]

.....and then proceeded to chuck it away - or rather drop it.

Handling shocking, lack of nous in attack.

That said these games need better refs.

[Olyy]

Ref was crap all game but pretty even handed with it but that last 10mins was shameful - I don't think I've ever seen anyone lose control so badly, and make such consistently awful calls

Calling penalty advantage then blowing for a collapsed maul scrum in the next phase and having to have the touch judge remind him that it should be a penalty was a particular high point



Backs were absolutely shocking on both attack and defence - thought Raymont was excellent and Burrow noticeable in the lineout and the loose. McEachran dominated his opposite man in the scrum.

Hanson wasn't great but Coen, outside him, was dreadful (and all the players outside Coen too tbf) so a bit of sympathy to him

[Bucks1861]

England were dreadful last week against Italy @ Bath too.

Our coaching seems…… an opportunity for improvement shall we say.

[SSR]

Watched the second half only but that was dire. Awful handling in the backs and tactics
being played by the numbers for a diffrent game than the one the Welsh were adopting.
I got fed up of the big lad running into multiple tacklers and forming a big ruck when the
Welsh had moved away for the next big lad to run into.
It always looked that the Welsh outnumbered our attack by multiple bodies.
The Welsh rush defence absolutely swamped our attack.
No adapting to the Welsh defence with grubbers or chips.
I hope the 1st team were watching as we know what to expect today.
Grit and determination.

[Lord Elpus]

Watched the second half only but that was dire. Awful handling in the backs and tactics being played by the numbers for a diffrent game than the one the Welsh were adopting.
I got fed up of the big lad running into multiple tacklers and forming a big ruck when the
Welsh had moved away for the next big lad to run into.

It was just like watching Sale.

[Bucks1861]

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There view of the stand out players. Tom Burrow being are only one.

Seems logical Tom will see more match day squad appearances. Maybe he’s seen as the new lock we need to replace some of the potentially retiring or exiting players.

[Olyy]

Surprised they've got Coen there - he's as dull as dull can be. Can't run a backline at all, but is a good kicker
Maybe that's all you need to be in SB's good books?

Thought both our props had good tournaments but can understand them not being listed as players on the verge of a breakthrough - believe they've both still got a year's worth of u20 eligibility left