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Steve Borthwick took implicit arsenic England manager from Eddie Jones successful December 2022England person chopped Bath flanker Sam Underhill and Sale prop Bevan Rodd from their World Cup grooming squad.
Coach Steve Borthwick has trimmed the enactment from 41 to 39 players arsenic England measurement up their preparations for September's tourney successful France.
Underhill was 1 of the stars of England's tally to the 2019 last but has endured an injury-hit fewer years since.
Rodd's exit leaves loose-head Joe Marler successful a bully presumption to marque the last squad of 33, named connected 7 August.
Marler past played for England 18 months agone but made himself disposable aft assurances from Borthwick helium was successful the moving for the last 33.
The squad assembled astatine their Bagshot grooming basal connected Monday pursuing a warm-weather grooming campy successful Italy past week.
Ollie Chessum, Ollie Lawrence, Mako and Billy Vunipola and Jack Walker volition besides articulation the campy to proceed their rehabilitation from injury.
England's archetypal warm-up lucifer for the tourney is against Wales successful Cardiff connected 5 August, the archetypal of 4 summertime fixtures.
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