• Scrum-half warns hosts of Fijis quality before Friday’s World Cup opener
• Youngs says England will be happy to be pragmatic and rely on their set pieceAll the mammoth southern hemisphere guests maintain now arrived but the visitors causing England most pre-World Cup concern are Fiji. Ranked ninth in the world there is an air of quiet optimism at the latter’s training headquarters in Sunbury regardless of their Pool A schedule.
As Stuart Lancaster prepares to name his starting XV for Friday night’s tournament opener,this is no time for English complacency. The line-up selected by Lancaster will, accordingly, or be the strongest he can muster for this assignment at Twickenham against a team who,according to Englands scrum-half Ben Youngs, possess “some of the best players in the world”. There will be no mixing or matching or easing individuals into the fray; the hosts know that they must start the party with a bang.
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Source: theguardian.com