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Rodwell gets England Sevens call

James Rodwell (Moseley RFC) has been called into the England Sevens squad for Wellington and San Diego (Feb 6-15).

Rodwell, who featured in the Dubai and South Africa legs of the IRB World Series in 2008 will replace Bristol Rugby's Greg Barden.

Barden failed to recover in time from a shoulder injury suffered during a Guinness A League fixture at Northampton on January 5.

England will face Argentina, France and Canada on day one (Feb 6) of the New Zealand tournament.

In San Diego (Feb 14/15) they will face tough pool opponents Samoa as well as Scotland and Japan.

England Sevens squad for New Zealand and USA:

Kevin Barrett (Exeter Chiefs)
Tom Biggs (Leeds Carnegie)
Chris Cracknell (Exeter Chiefs)
Isoa Damudamu (Army)
Ben Gollings (Gold Coast, Australia)
Ben Jones (Worcester Warriors)*
Dan Norton (Gloucester Rugby)*
Ollie Phillips (Newcastle Falcons)
James Rodwell (Moseley RFC)
Charlie Simpson-Daniel (Gloucester Rugby)
Rob Vickerman (Leeds Carnegie)
Andy Vilk (BenettonTreviso)

*Denotes uncapped for England Sevens

Well done England 7s - through to the 1/4 Final of the Cup but look who they have to play tomorrow Aggggghhhhhh


Fiji v England

England won their two opening matches, first coming from behind twice to overpower France 26-10 and then seeing off Canada 34-7, Captain Ollie Phillips (Newcastle Falcons) and Ben Gollings (Gold Coast, Australia) impressing along with new speedster Daniel Norton (Gloucester Rugby), but came unstuck against the combative Pumas of Argentina, who topped the group.

The Pumas were held to a 17-all draw by a battling Canada side making their Series debut this season, before beating France 33-21 and finished the day as the only side unbeaten.

Canada and France played out an absorbing match to finish their day one campaigns, ending dead-locked at 12-12, a second draw for the Canadians.

Phillips said: “We're disappointed that we lost to Argentina, we set our standard to go out there and win every game. That's our ambition, that's where we want to go so a minor blip but we're through to the quarters, which is the main thing. We're still in the knock-out competition where we want to be, we just made it a little bit harder for ourselves.

"We believe we've got the players and the talent to go and win against any team so, while that game was very disappointing, we'll learn from our mistakes. Argentina played very well, frustrated us and didn't let us play how we wanted to play so we'll come back tomorrow and regroup."

England will face Fiji at 2.55pm (GMT +13) on day two of the tournament.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ENGLAND 7S

England 19 v 17 New Zealand







Ben Gollings scored the winning conversion in the final for England




Ben Gollings held his nerve to convert Isoa Damu's breakaway try in the dying seconds to beat New Zealand by the slender margin of two points and claim a first NZI Sevens title for England.

New Zealand looked on course for victory after leading throughout but England captain Ollie Phillips inspired the fightback and Damu's try at the death pulled the English level, leaving Gollings with a conversion in front of the posts.

next stop USA 14-15 FEB

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