Pom prop crisis continues
David Barnes is the latest England prop to be injured ahead of their Test against Argentina on Saturday.
Barnes wasn’t in the 22 for the Australia match, but with David Wilson ruled out with a neck and shoulder injury on Monday, Barnes was expected to be elevated to the bench. He hasn’t been officially ruled out, but he left England’s training base on crutches.
Duncan Bell now looks set to start against the strong Pumas scrum, with Paul Doran-Jones expected to be in the 22. Doran-Jones has played just 266 minutes of Premiership rugby.
Julian White, Phil Vickery and Andrew Sheridan were all injured before the November internationals.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
argies will do them oi reckon
November 10th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
#1 grant10:
Oh great!!
November 10th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
#2 carol: Hi….hows the cold?
Poms got an injury list of note!!
November 10th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
#3 grant10: Improving thanks, have realised a red nose and hacking cough is NOT attractive!!
Hear Cape Town has reverted to winter weather so no swimming today for you!! ;-(
November 10th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
…..and yes, at this rate Martin Johnson will be dusting off his boots!!
We are falling to bits!
November 10th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
#4 carol: Weather is freezing and cold…and grey and rain…crazy!
Losing my tan dammit!!
Look after that cold….booze the key!
November 10th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
#6 grant10: There have been some memorable evenings with you mixing flu remedys with a drink…I may try it later!!
Sorry to hear about the tan, man that is serious!! How will you attract the Brazilian Ladies Volley Ball team if you are a bit pasty?
Might try a small brandy now!
November 10th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
#7 carol:
ANYTHING to get MJ out of the coaches seat…
November 10th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
#7 carol: Just going nice and brown and a week of rain……would run a mile from those ladies….all that youthful exhuberance ….it would cost me a fortune in Pharmacy bills…
November 11th, 2009 at 12:49 am
Jeez things aren’t looking good for the motherland. Time to bring back Jason Leonard?
November 11th, 2009 at 3:27 am
#1 grant10: I bet they don’t. They’re missing a few themselves.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:40 am
England played two of the most “un-athletic” props I have ever seen last week. Always a danger of leaking tries around the fringes with pillars like that.