England Rugby World Cup 30 Man Squad
Backs
Delon Armitage (London Irish), Chris Ashton (Northampton Saints), Matt Banahan (Bath Rugby), Mark Cueto (Sale Sharks), Toby Flood (Leicester Tigers), Ben Foden (Northampton Saints), Shontayne Hape (London Irish), Joe Simpson (London Wasps), Mike Tindall (Gloucester Rugby), Manu Tuilagi (Leicester Tigers), Richard Wigglesworth (Saracens), Jonny Wilkinson (Toulon), Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers).
Forwards
Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers), Alex Corbisiero (London Irish), Tom Croft (Leicester Tigers), Louis Deacon (Leicester Tigers), Nick Easter (Harlequins), Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints), James Haskell (Ricoh Black Rams), Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints), Lee Mears (Bath Rugby), Lewis Moody (Bath Rugby), Tom Palmer (Stade Francais), Simon Shaw (Unattached), Andrew Sheridan (Sale Sharks), Matt Stevens (Saracens), Steve Thompson (London Wasps), David Wilson (Bath Rugby), Tom Wood (Northampton Saints).
Thoughts
So as everyone said Riki Flutey didn't make the 30 to go to New Zealand with Joe Simpson seeming to have took his place after the injury to Danny Care. Many fans will wonder why is Shontayne Hape going instead of Riki? Martin Johnson seems to be just bringing crashball centres to the World Cup also with Hape he has a slick offloading game that some compliment for with his Rugby League days with the Bradford Bulls.
Simon Shaw got the shout over Mouritz Botha after Botha impressed in this last seasons Aviva Premiership where Saracens won the title with him amongst others staring that year, a shoutout must go to Mouritz who wasn't long ago playing for the Bedford Blues in the RFU Championship. The backrow was predicted with Hendre Fourie and Chris Robshaw missing out, they both had great seasons even though Leeds got relegated.
At prop hats off to David Wilson who I personally think has silently made his way into the World Cup squad he hasn't been talked about in the media that much with most of the with the backs, fantastic news for him with Tim Payne and Paul Doran Jones missing out. Ugo Monye and Charlie Sharples, have both missed out in which both of them had good form at some point in the season more with Monye having great form towards the end of the season and with Charlie he had been scoring tries for fun all season. Charlie will be one of the stars in the next Rugby World Cup I think.
The Team I would start against Argentina:
1. Sheridan
2. Hartley
3. Stevens
4. Lawes
5. Palmer
6. Wood
7. Moody
8. Easter
9. Youngs
10. Wilkinson
11. Cueto
12. Tuilagi
13. Tindall
14. Ashton
15. Foden
