England Sevens squad announcement

England Saxons’ Lee Dickson, Rob Webber and Ben Foden will warm up for the 2008 Barclays Churchill Cup at the Emirates Airline London Sevens 24 & 25 May.

Dickson and Webber will make their England Sevens debut as all three take to the Twickenham turf for the two day event.

The squad also includes IRB Sevens top points scorer Ben Gollings, Worcester Warriors’ speedster Uche Oduoza and powerful centre Jack Adams of Gloucester.

Said Coach Ben Ryan, “I’m really enthusiastic about being at Twickenham. I have a squad of line breakers and game winners and we have home advantage so we hope to finish the season on a big high. It’s testament to the strength of English rugby that the sevens side can form a formidable squad in London and the following week in Edinburgh.

“It’s also great to see so many of this season’s sevens players involved in other senior tours like Tom Guest and Matt Banahan and Danny Care as well as the Under 20 World Championships.”

Emirates Airline London Sevens 12 man squad

Jack Adams (Gloucester Rugby)

Kevin Barrett (Exeter Chiefs)

Tom Biggs (Leeds Carnegie)*

Chris Cracknell (Cornish Pirates)*

Lee Dickson (Newcastle Falcons)**

Ben Foden (Sale Sharks)

Ben Gollings (Sunnybank, Australia)

Uche Oduoza (Worcester Warriors)

Ollie Phillips (Newcastle Falcons)

Andy Vilk (Sale Sharks, captain)

Rob Webber (London Wasps)**

Tom Youngs (Leicester Tigers)

* Denotes uncapped for England Sevens

** Denotes uncapped for England Sevens and 2008 Barclays Churchill Cup England Saxon

England’s Pool matches, May 24:

England v Spain, ko 11.34am
England v France, ko 2.40pm
South Africa v England, ko 5.58pm

To follow England Sevens and to buy tickets for the Emirates Airline London Sevens 24-25th May, Tickets from £10 go to www.londonsevens.co.uk

For the full two day event match schedule visit www.irb.com

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