England vs Barbarians - Sunday 28 May

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England v Barbarians FC
28 May 2017
KO: 15:00 BST
Twickenham, London

Live on Sky Sports, Sky Sports HD and SkyGo

Referee: Andrew Brace (Ireland)
Touch judges: [tbc]
TMO: [tbc]

A. FORM:

Overall
England 8 wins
Barbarians 7 wins
0 draws

Last 5 matches
England 73 vs 12 Barbarians
31 May 2015
Twickenham, London

England 29 vs 39 Barbarians
1 June 2014
Twickenham, London

England 40 vs 12 Barbarians
26 May 2013
Twickenham, London

England 57 vs 26 Barbarians
27 May 2012
Twickenham, London

England 32 vs 38 Barbarians
29 May 2011
Twickenham, London

B. TEAMS:

England


Barbarians


C. SQUADS:

England
Forwards (17): Josh Beaumont (Sale Sharks), Rob Buchanan (Harlequins), Will Collier (Harlequins), Ben Curry (Sale Sharks), Tom Curry (Sale Sharks), Tom Ellis (Bath Rugby), Charlie Ewels (Bath Rugby), Jamal Ford-Robinson (Bristol), Ellis Genge (Leicester Tigers), Ross Harrison (Sale Sharks), Nick Isiekwe (Saracens), Chris Robshaw (Harlequins), Nick Schonert (Worcester Warriors), Jack Singleton (Worcester Warriors), Will Spencer (Worcester Warriors), Sam Underhill (Bath Rugby), Mark Wilson (Newcastle Falcons).

Backs (12): Mike Brown (Harlequins), Danny Care (Harlequins), Nathan Earle (Saracens), George Ford (Bath Rugby), Mike Haley (Sale Sharks), Sam James (Sale Sharks), Alex Lozowski (Saracens), Joe Marchant (Harlequins), Jonny May (Gloucester Rugby), Ryan Mills (Worcester Warriors), Richard Wigglesworth (Saracens), Marland Yarde (Harlequins).

Barbaians FC
Backs: Horacio Agulla (Castres & Argentina), Adam Ashley-Cooper (Bordeaux Begles & Australia), Yann David (Toulouse and France), Kahn Fotuali’i (Bath Rugby & Samoa), Robbie Freuan (Bath Rugby), Alex Goode (Saracens & England), Rory Kockott (Castres & France), Ian Madigan (Bordeaux Begles & Ireland), Timoci Nagusa (Montpellier & Fiji), Waisea Nayacalavu (Stade Francais & Fiji), Ruan Pienaar (Ulster & South Africa), David Smith (Castres), Frans Steyn (Montpellier & South Africa).

Forwards: Patricio Albacete (Toulouse & Argentina), Steffon Armitage (Pau & England), Schalk Brits (Saracens & South Africa), Thierry Dusautoir (Toulouse & France), Corey Flynn (Star RFC & New Zealand), Ben Franks (London Irish & New Zealand), Gillian Galan (Toulouse), Richard Hibbard (Gloucester & Wales), Facundo Isa (Lyon & Argentina), Census Johnston (Toulouse & Samoa), Mikheil Nariashvili (Montpellier & Georgia), WP Nel (Edinburgh & Scotland), Mike Ross (Leinster & Ireland), Joe Tekori (Toulouse & Samoa), Jeremy Thrush (Gloucester & New Zealand).

D. NOTES

• England squad was announced over the weekend. Made up largely of the touring party for Argentina, players from Wasps, Exeter and Northampton are missing. Replacements have been called up.
  
• Barbarians squad from previously announced players and call ups announced via Twitter on 23 May.
  
• Bill Beaumont County Cup Finals also to be played at Twickenham on the same day.
  

No 7&1/2 wrote:And so far Lozowski and underhill off injured.

I'm abroad so out the loop. Who came on for Lozowski? Haley I presume?

Yup Haley, just a pretty disjointed game.

Not been a great game but if the Baa baa's had some composure, they could be well ahead here. Some of Englands young lads playing very well, future is bright for England rugby.

Doesn't look like a knock on to me... Oh well

Surprised our scrums been ok, was worried a tad light in the back 5.

How was that deemed to go forward? He tried to offload backwards, it hit the England player and between them it shot up in the air?

Went forward then hit the knee.

Front row has done very well. Collier and genge looking good in the scrum. Beaumont a bit meh. Underhill curry and Wilson look good.

Rugbyjk wrote:Surprised our scrums been ok, was worried a tad light in the back 5.

I'm not so sure it has tbh. Genge & Collier seem to spend have the time with their knees on the floor, I don't know what the ref has been seeing the first 60mins. We look better with Nel on mind, he looks way off being fit.

Curry looks v good I'm upping it.

Well it's got a few penalties for such a young pack

Pack looked very good. Curry got man of the match. Backs looked ok but struggled not having enough cover for midfield on the bench.

Curry was excellent, next generation looking great. Shame for Underhill as he waa very aggresive, him and Curry would be an intresting combo.

Underhill looks very physical while Curry looks to be the more intelligent player. Some very nice options for England to consider in the future.