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Can Andy Farrell's side bounce back from defeat to Argentina?

Ahead of a World Cup that his side will be expected to win, the veteran coach tells Harry Latham-Coyle about England's winning mindset, his mistakes of the past and what it will take to triumph on home soil later this year ...

England only took two specialist nines to the last World Cup and could again take that gamble ...

Hansen starts on the wing for the Lions in their first tour game Down Under and has harked back to a game from 2013 when discussing the banana skin ...

The Lions captain wants his team to show the same intensity as their opponents, Western Force, in Saturday's tour opener ...

Western Force await in Perth on Saturday.

The swaggering Northampton back row is the squad's youngest player.

Ireland hooker Sheehan will captain the British and Irish tourists on his debut appearance.

The youngest player in the Lions squad appeared off the bench against Argentina but will now start against the Force, in the unfamiliar position of No 8 ...

Borthwick's side are heading for a two-Test series against Los Pumas after an England XV suffered a late comeback defeat to a France XV at the weekend ...