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Preview: England vs New Zealand, Saturday, 2:30

Here is the England team; it features a complete lump in midfield, a giant lummox at blind side and a part-time full-back who is not very good even on the wing:

Cueto (Sale); Banahan (Bath), Hipkiss (Leicester), Erinle (Biarritz), Monye (Harlequins); Wilkinson (Toulon), Hodgson (London Irish); Payne (Wasps), Hartley (Northampton), Bell (Bath), Shaw (Wasps), Borthwick (Saracens, capt), Worsley (Wasps), Moody (Leicester), Haskell (Stade Francais).
Replacements: Thompson (Brive), Wilson (Bath), Deacon (Leicester), Croft (Leicester), Care (Harlequins), Geraghty (Northampton), Tait (Sale). 

Here is the New Zealand team:

Muliaina; Guildford, C Smith, Nonu, Sivivatu; Carter, Cowan; Woodcock, Hore, Franks; Thorn, Donnelly, Thomson, McCaw (capt), Read.
Replacements: Flynn or de Malmanche, Afoa, Boric, Kaino, Ellis, Donald, Ellison.

Cover your children's eyes, put your pets in the other room, tell your significant other to get the pillows ready to hide behind; it's going to be an insurance job on a terrifying scale.

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Preview: England vs New Zealand, Saturday, 2:30

Here is the England team; it features a complete lump in midfield, a giant lummox at blind side and a part-time full-back who is not very good even on the wing:

Cueto (Sale); Banahan (Bath), Hipkiss (Leicester), Erinle (Biarritz), Monye (Harlequins); Wilkinson (Toulon), Hodgson (London Irish); Payne (Wasps), Hartley (Northampton), Bell (Bath), Shaw (Wasps), Borthwick (Saracens, capt), Worsley (Wasps), Moody (Leicester), Haskell (Stade Francais).
Replacements: Thompson (Brive), Wilson (Bath), Deacon (Leicester), Croft (Leicester), Care (Harlequins), Geraghty (Northampton), Tait (Sale). 

Here is the New Zealand team:

Muliaina; Guildford, C Smith, Nonu, Sivivatu; Carter, Cowan; Woodcock, Hore, Franks; Thorn, Donnelly, Thomson, McCaw (capt), Read.
Replacements: Flynn or de Malmanche, Afoa, Boric, Kaino, Ellis, Donald, Ellison.

Cover your children's eyes, put your pets in the other room, tell your significant other to get the pillows ready to hide behind; it's going to be an insurance job on a terrifying scale.