{"id":6956,"date":"2012-01-11T20:34:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T18:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/rugby-tindall-easter-dropped-from-new-look-england\/"},"modified":"2012-01-11T20:34:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T18:34:51","slug":"rugby-tindall-easter-dropped-from-new-look-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-tindall-easter-dropped-from-new-look-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Tindall, Easter dropped from new-look England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Jan 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Mike Tindall, Nick Easter<br \/>\nand Mark Cueto were omitted from England&#8217;s 32-man elite player<br \/>\nsquad (EPS) on Wednesday as caretaker coach Stuart Lancaster<br \/>\nincluded a clutch of new faces to set about the defence of the<br \/>\nSix Nations championsip.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Centre Tindall was dropped from the squad as punishment for<br \/>\noff-field misdemeanours during last year&#8217;s rugby World Cup<br \/>\nbefore being re-instated on appeal.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After the recent international retirements of Jonny<br \/>\nWilkinson, Lewis Moody and Steve Thompson, his omission<br \/>\nrepresents the final severing of any link with the 2003 World<br \/>\nCup-winning team.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Among the uncapped players included were Owen Farrell, son<br \/>\nof former international and current assistant coach Andy, Calum<br \/>\nClark, Joe Marler, Charlie Sharples, Brad Barritt, Lee Dickson,<br \/>\nJordan Turner-Hall and Ben Morgan, the Scarlets number eight who<br \/>\nturned down Wales.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Several of the new faces are expected to start England&#8217;s<br \/>\nfirst match of the championship away to Scotland on Feb. 4.<br \/>\nwhich flyhalf Toby Flood, the squad&#8217;s most-capped player with<br \/>\n46, could miss through injury.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Flankers Tom Wood and Chris Robshaw, who has one cap, are<br \/>\nwidely considered to be vying for the captaincy but Lancaster<br \/>\nsaid he would make that decision nearer the first match.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Editing by Ed Osmond; to query or comment on this story email<br \/>\nsportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON Jan 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Mike Tindall, Nick Easter and Mark Cueto were omitted from England&#8217;s 32-man elite player squad (EPS) on Wednesday as caretaker coach Stuart Lancaster included a clutch of new faces to set about the defence of the Six Nations championsip. Centre Tindall was dropped from the squad as punishment for off-field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}