{"id":8263,"date":"2012-02-24T02:33:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/update-2-rugby-dickson-farrell-at-hub-of-new-england\/"},"modified":"2012-02-24T02:33:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:33:35","slug":"update-2-rugby-dickson-farrell-at-hub-of-new-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-rugby-dickson-farrell-at-hub-of-new-england\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Rugby-Dickson, Farrell at hub of new England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Four changes and new-look backline for Wales clash<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Hodgson out with finger injury<\/p>\n<p> (Adds Lancaster quotes)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mitch Phillips<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>BAGSHOT, England, Feb 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Lee Dickson, Ben<br \/>\nMorgan and Geoff Parling will make their first starts against<br \/>\nWales at Twickenham on Saturday and Owen Farrell switches to<br \/>\nflyhalf in place of injured Charlie Hodgson as Stuart<br \/>\nLancaster&#8217;s England revolution continued on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A finger problem for Hodgson gave the England caretaker<br \/>\ncoach a somewhat fortuitous opportunity to pair inexperienced<br \/>\nbut exciting duo Dickson and Farrell at halfback while also<br \/>\ntrying a potentially well-balanced centre partnership of Brad<br \/>\nBarritt and Manu Tuilagi.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Flyhalf Toby Flood and lock Courtney Lawes, yet to feature<br \/>\nin the tournament because of injury, were named among the<br \/>\nreplacements.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Scrumhalf Dickson injected real fizz from the bench in the<br \/>\nlaboured but important opening away wins over Scotland and<br \/>\nItaly, Morgan provided rare forward momentum from number eight<br \/>\nand Parling also brought stability to a wobbly lineout.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ben Youngs, who has looked ponderous at times from<br \/>\nscrumhalf, and number eight Phil Dowson drop to the bench but<br \/>\nlock Tom Palmer misses out on the 22.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hodgson, who scored England&#8217;s two tries in their first two<br \/>\ngames following chargedowns, had been expected to retain his<br \/>\nplace, despite the availability of Flood.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Four changes and new-look backline for Wales clash * Hodgson out with finger injury (Adds Lancaster quotes) By Mitch Phillips BAGSHOT, England, Feb 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Lee Dickson, Ben Morgan and Geoff Parling will make their first starts against Wales at Twickenham on Saturday and Owen Farrell switches to flyhalf in place of injured [&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-8263","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\/8263","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=8263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}