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Son of World Cup winner one of 16 uncapped players in England squad

Charlie Bracken of Saracens runs with the ball during Saracens training session on December 3, 2024 in Harpenden, England. (Photo by Gaspafotos/MB Media/Getty Images)

Steve Borthwick has named a 36-man England training squad that will assemble for a four-day training camp ahead of their clash with a France XV at Twickenham’s Allianz Stadium next week.

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The squad is bereft of its British and Irish Lions contingent – including Jamie George and Asher Opoku-Fordjour – as well as players from Bath and Leicester Tigers, who face each other in the Gallagher Premiership final this weekend.

Players from losing semi-finalists Bristol Bears and Sale Sharks have joined the squad, although Harry Randall is unsurprisingly ruled out, having left the field of play in the defeat to Bath clutching his shoulder. His team-mate Joe Batley has also not been considered for selection.

Despite making the Premiership team of the season, Bristol winger Gabriel Ibitoye once again finds himself out of the squad.

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Full-back George Furbank, who has not featured since a gruesome collision in the early minutes of the Investec Champions Cup final, will be in camp for rehabilitation, while those with long-term injuries – Ollie Lawrence, Alex Lozowski and George Martin – were not considered for selection.

Borthwick has included 16 uncapped players in his squad, as he prepares for a busy two months ahead, which also includes two Tests against Argentina and a one-off Test against the USA.

One of those 16 is Saracens’ 21-year-old scrum-half Charlie Bracken, son of World Cup winner Kyran. With Randall injured, Alex Mitchell with the Lions, and Jack van Poortvliet and Ben Spencer preparing for the Premiership final, the Saracen, who only has 10 Premiership appearances to his name, joins fellow uncapped scrum-half Will Porter in the squad.

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The squad for the tour of the Americas will be announced on Monday, June 23.

England training squad
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Fin Baxter (Harlequins)
Richard Capstick (Exeter Chiefs)
Arthur Clark (Gloucester Rugby)
Alex Coles (Northampton Saints)
Chandler Cunningham-South (Harlequins)
Ben Curry (Sale Sharks)
Theo Dan (Saracens)
Trevor Davison (Northampton Saints)
Alex Dombrandt (Harlequins)
Afolabi Fasogbon (Gloucester Rugby)
Nick Isiekwe (Saracens)
Manny Iyogun (Northampton Saints)
Jack Kenningham (Harlequins)
George Kloska (Bristol Bears)
Curtis Langdon (Northampton Saints)
Tom Lockett (Northampton Saints)
Gabriel Oghre (Bristol Bears)
Tom Pearson (Northampton Saints)
Bevan Rodd (Sale Sharks)
Tom Willis (Saracens)

Backs
Charlie Atkinson (Gloucester Rugby)
Seb Atkinson (Gloucester Rugby)
Oscar Beard (Harlequins)
Charlie Bracken (Saracens)
Joe Carpenter (Sale Sharks)
Fraser Dingwall (Northampton Saints)
Immanuel Feyi-Waboso (Exeter Chiefs)
George Ford (Sale Sharks)
Rekeiti Ma’asi-White (Sale Sharks)
Cadan Murley (Harlequins)
Luke Northmore (Harlequins)
Will Porter (Harlequins)
Raffi Quirke (Sale Sharks)
Tom Roebuck (Sale Sharks)
Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs)
Ollie Sleightholme (Northampton Saints)

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fl 1 hour ago
Ex-Wallaby laughs off claims Bath are amongst the best in the world

I ultimately don’t care who the best club team in the world is, so yeah, lets agree to disagree on that.


I would appreciate clarity on a couple of things though:

Where did I contradict myself?

Saying “Trophies matter. They matter a lot. But so does winning games. So does making finals.” is entirely compatible with ranking a team as the best - over an extended period - when they have won more games and made more finals than other comparable teams. It would be contradictory for me to say “Trophies matter. They matter a lot. But so does winning games. So does making finals.” and then completely ignore Leinster record of winning games and making finals.


“You can get frustrated and say I am not reading what you write, but when you quote me, then your first line is to say thats true (what I wrote), but by the end of the paragraph have stated something different, thats where you contradict yourself.”

What you said (that I think trophies matter) is true, in that I said “Trophies matter. They matter a lot. But so does winning games. So does making finals.”. Do you understand that Leinster won more games and made more finals than any other (URC-based) team did under the period under consideration?


“Pointless comparison on Blackburn and Tottenham to this discussion as no-one includes them on a list of the best club. I would say that Blackburns title season was better than anything Tottenham have done in the Premier League. My reference to the league was that the team who finished second over two seasons are not better than the two other teams who did win the league each time. One of the best - of course, but not the best, which is relevant to my point here about Leinster, not comparing teams who won 30 years ago against a team that never won.”

I really don’t understand why you would think that this is irrelevant. You seem to be saying that winning trophies is the only thing that matters when assessing who is the best, but doesn’t matter at all when assessing who is 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc.


“What I referred to in my Leinster wouldn’t say the were the best is your post earlier where you said Leinster were the best overall. You said that in two separate posts. Seasons dont work like that, they are individual. Unless the same team keeps winning then you can say they were the best over a period of time and group them, but thats not the case here.”

Well then we’ve just been talking at cross purposes. In that my position (that Leinster were the best team overall in 2022-2024) was pretty clear, and you just decided to respond to a different point (whether Leinster were the best team individually in particular years) essentially making the entire discussion completely pointless. I guess if you think that trophies are the only thing that matters then it makes sense to see the season as an individual event that culminates in a trophy (or not), whereas because I believe that trophies matter a lot, but that so does winning matches and making finals, it makes it easier for me to consider quality over an extended period.

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MT 1 hour ago
Ex-Wallaby laughs off claims Bath are amongst the best in the world

As I said in one of my first replies to you - we can agree to disagree. If you want to leave it no problem. I completely disagree with your ranking of Leinster as the best team in the world. Now you have said you will change it if Bordeaux win the Top 14. Well as Leinster themselves prioritise the CC over the URC and Bordeaux won the CC, how are they not ranked higher by you? Are Leinster one of the best teams, yeah - never said they weren’t. But not the very best team, as the very best team have trophies to show for their seasons. They matter when you discuss the very best.


You can get frustrated and say I am not reading what you write, but when you quote me, then your first line is to say thats true (what I wrote), but by the end of the paragraph have stated something different, thats where you contradict yourself. Just so we are clear, you said you would too on my statement that I would rather be a fan of a team that won a trophy over the three seasons, but end the paragraph saying you would rather be a fan of the team that won the most matches but didn’t win a trophy. Both cant be true. Thats one example of where you contradict yourself.


Pointless comparison on Blackburn and Tottenham to this discussion as no-one includes them on a list of the best club. I would say that Blackburns title season was better than anything Tottenham have done in the Premier League. My reference to the league was that the team who finished second over two seasons are not better than the two other teams who did win the league each time. One of the best - of course, but not the best, which is relevant to my point here about Leinster, not comparing teams who won 30 years ago against a team that never won.


What I referred to in my Leinster wouldn’t say the were the best is your post earlier where you said Leinster were the best overall. You said that in two separate posts. Seasons dont work like that, they are individual. Unless the same team keeps winning then you can say they were the best over a period of time and group them, but thats not the case here.

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