England Team to play Wales Announced
England & St. George
By Kath
August 19 2003
England team announced to take on Wales at Cardiff Millennium Stadium on Saturday. This will be the last chance for some players to show Clive Woodward, why they should be included in that 30-man squad to go to the World Cup.
Steve Hansen the Welsh head coach said in a recent interview, "England deserve respect". Well yes they do but so do Wales. Wales over the last few years have been going through torrid times, none more so than now! Whilst the final outcome of these times is still not in sight, the Welsh pride and the Prince of Wales Feathers will be held up high as they face their 'old foe' England on Saturday at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff .
Make no mistake the England players that take the field against Wales on Saturday will have only one thing on their minds and that will be to perform well and to WIN! Clive Woodward England Head Coach is quoted as saying " The Gloves will be off against Wales and England will show no mercy", which is how it should be. This may be a World Cup warm up match for England but it is a fully capped international.
Wales will be out to topple England's unbeaten record and make no bones about it, some England players are playing for a very big prize - entry into that elusive 30 man squad to go to the Rugby World Cup.
England are in a fortunate position, they have the backing of the RFU and the Zurich Premiership Club Owners, for without them England would not be the force they are now. Respect must go to England Players, Clive Woodward and Coaches, RFU and also to those Zurich Premiership Clubs who regularly tip up their prize assets 'the players', for the good of the cause.
So when the players of both teams run out on Saturday the respect will be mutual, the fight ferocious and afterward the camaraderie legend and that's the way it should be!
WALES:
Cooper, Parker, Gareth Thomas (Celtic Warriors), Henson (Neath-Swansea),
M Jones, S Jones, Phillips, M Taylor (Llanelli), T Shanklin, Rhys Williams
(Cardiff). Charvis, J Thomas, A Jones (Neath-Swansea), G Jenkins,
Sidoli, Gavin Thomas (Celtic Warriors), D Jones, McBryde, I Thomas, Chris Wyatt
(Llanelli), G Williams, M Williams (Cardiff).
ENGLAND:
D Scarbrough (Leeds); J Simpson-Daniel (Gloucester), J Noon (Newcastle), S Abbott (Wasps), D Luger (Perpignan); A King (Wasps), A Gomarsall (Gloucester); J Leonard (Harlequins, Capt), M Regan (Leeds), J White (Leicester), D Grewcock (Bath), S Shaw (Wasps), M Corry (Leicester), L Moody (Leicester), J Worsley (Wasps)
Just leaves me to sound my familiar cry:-
The Seige of Harfleur 1415
" I see you Stand
like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the Start.
The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit; and, upon this charge
Cry "God for Harry! England and Saint George!"
Shakespeare, Henry V (1599) act 3, sc.
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