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10 tries including hat-tricks from Mark Cueto and Chris Ashton, helped England secure a comfortable win as they finally announced their arrival at the tournament.

Martin Johnson has called for his England side to make "big improvements€ when they face Romania on Saturday morning.

England claimed a bonus point victory in their second match of the Rugby World Cup, but they had to work for it by a Georgian team who refused to lie down and produced a brilliant performance.

The return of skipper Lewis Moody is just one of the nine changes Martin Johnson has made to the side that eventually overcame Argentina in their opening World Cup game last Saturday.

It's not often that I was awake at 7 o' clock in the morning whilst I was at university and especially not on a Saturday, especially (as I am Welsh) to watch the old enemy play

England got a last gasp win against a tough Argentina side, thanks to a Ben Youngs try. Both sides had disappointing displays with the boot as Jonny Wilkinson missed 5 kicks and Argentina missed 6 kicks.

England will have 10 World Cup debutants in their starting XV when they take on Argentina in Dunedin on Saturday.

Earlier in the week it was announced that England will head into their Pool B contest against Argentina without the services of Captain Lewis Moody.

Tries from Manu Tuilagi and Delon Armitage saw England to a 20-9 victory over Ireland in torrid conditions at the Aviva Stadium.

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

As the Rugby World Cup draws ever closer all of the home unions are trying to find ways to overcome the Southern Hemisphere superpowers who have dominated the tournament, with the exception of England in 2003 the World Cup has been won by South Africa, Australia or New Zealand.

Six months ago you would have thought that England had their World Cup half back partnership sorted with Leicester pair Ben Youngs and Toby Flood at the helm.

A terrific defensive performance from Wales saw them win triumphantly at the Millennium Stadium 19-9 after England failed to convert mountains of possession.

After England's first warm-up match on the way to the World Cup, Martin Johnson said "I'd rather win a game like that, than score 60 points and everybody think you're great

To this day, the opening chapter has stayed with me closely as it illustrated there is more to life than rugby, more to life than sport.

Johnson described England's performance as, "What we wanted€ as they edged out Wales 23-19. Tries from Samoan born Manu Tuilagi and James Haskell proved enough for England to come out of their first World Cup warm up game victorious

Reports are suggesting that on August 1st England and Nike will be unveiling an all black away strip ready for the World Cup

At just 19 years of age Matt Kvesic has already achieved an awful lot in his career and it only looks to get better

England have just named their 45 man training squad for the Rugby World Cup. Fithteen of these players were not born in England and come from ten different countries

After Martin Johnson announced his 45-man training squad for the World Cup, we have a much better idea of who will be heading out to New Zealand to compete for the William Webb Ellis trophy in September