George issues set-piece ultimatum to England forwards

Autumn Nations Series: England v New Zealand

Venue: Allianz Stadium, Twickenham Date: Saturday, 2 November Kick-off: 15:10 GMT

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Captain Jamie George has told England's battalion that determination tin beryllium nary repetition of New Zealand’s set-piece superiority erstwhile the 2 sides conscionable again connected Saturday.

England mislaid 2 Tests distant to the All Blacks successful July with the hosts outmuscling George's broadside successful cardinal areas.

"We were disappointed successful the summer, we got scrummed and we don’t similar being scrummed," George told BBC 5 Live.

"We got mauled and we don't similar being mauled.

"We person made it precise wide that that is the extremity of the England forwards being taken to. We privation to marque definite we enactment our authorization down successful that respect."

Ellis Genge, who missed the July matches done injury, is acceptable to reclaim the starting loosehead spot for this weekend's rematch, but the remainder of England's beforehand 5 remains the same.

Head manager Steve Borthwick said aft the 2-0 bid decision successful the summertime that helium was considering fast-tracking immoderate of England's under-20 World Cup-winning broadside to enactment up the tighthead broadside of the beforehand row, with Will Stuart coming nether unit and 37-year-old Dan Cole closing successful connected the extremity of his career.

Bath's Billy Sella, Sale's Asher Opoku-Fordjour and Gloucester's Afolabi Fasogbon each impressed with almighty performances successful that age-grade success, with Fasogbon besides coming retired connected apical successful an early-season Premiership face-off with Bristol's Genge.

For present though, Borthwick has kept religion with the veterans.

Stuart, who scored 2 tries successful a 25-25 gully the past clip the teams met astatine Twickenham, starts connected Saturday with Cole connected the bench.

George says that England's signifier successful grooming and a instrumentality to Twickenham for the archetypal clip since a thunderous 23-22 Six Nations triumph implicit Ireland successful March person whetted his appetite for the match.

"We performed good retired determination successful New Zealand, didn't get the results we wanted, but astatine the aforesaid clip came distant being beauteous wide astir what we needed to bash to triumph those game,” helium said.

"That is what we person to absorption on.

“We don't cognize however bully we tin beryllium and I americium truly excited astir wherever we are astatine and what I person seen implicit the past mates of weeks."

George besides said that, unlike team-mate Joe Marler, helium is simply a instrumentality of the haka, adjacent attempting to transcript the All Black's pre-match situation erstwhile helium was a child.

"I grew up perfectly loving it," helium said.

"I grew up trying to larn it. It is thing I person a immense magnitude of respect for. I emotion the theatre that it brings, the ambiance it generates, the transportation with the fans. I deliberation it is brilliant."