April 2, 2008

Tombleson gets England call

Tom Tombleson (Newbury Blues) has been called up to the England Sevens squad ahead of this weekend’s IRB Adelaide Sevens on the 5 & 6 April.

Tom will replace Jonathan Fisher (London Irish) who has been called up to the bench for London Irish for this Saturday’s Heineken Cup quarter final against Perpignan.

This will be Tombleson’s second appearance for England as he was called out as a replacement for the IRB USA Sevens in February.

Said Coach Ben Ryan, “Tom has had to quickly acclimatise, he had a brief run out against New Zealand in a practice match this morning and though bleary eyed, he's ready to go forward to push his claims for future selections and help us through the group into the Cup this weekend.”

England Sevens squad for IRB World Sevens Series

Adelaide:

Kevin Barrett (Exeter)

John Brake (Northampton Saints)

Noah Cato (Saracens)

James Collins (Worcester Warriors)

Matthew Cox (Worcester Warriors)

Anthony Elliott (Bristol Rugby)

Ben Gollings (Sunnybank)

Simon Hunt (Ebbw Vale)

Chris Mayor (Sale Sharks)

Tom Tombleson (Newbury Blues)

Andy Vilk (Sale Sharks, captain)

Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers)

For more information and to follow England’s progress visit www.rfu.com/sevens

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