"This is a long trip away from home for all of us, but I deliberately wanted to try and keep the same players for all three tournaments (Commonwealth Games, Hong Kong Sevens and Singapore). This is a relatively young group of players with the average age only about 22, and each day they are away they are learning something new.  Its not just about what they will have learned from playing in front of the crowds of Melbourne and Hong Kong, but every day that we train we concentrate on their core skills. These are very talented young players with bright England futures, but they are still very much developing as players on and off the pitch, and I am confident their clubs will notice a difference when they return next week."