Fin Smith To Start At 10 In Much-changed England Side

Quilter Nations Series: England v Fiji

Venue: Allianz Stadium, Twickenham Date: Saturday 8 November Kick-off: 17:40 GMT

Coverage: Live connected 5 Live Sports Extra, pinch unrecorded matter commentary connected nan BBC Sport website

Fin Smith will commencement astatine fly-half against Fiji connected Saturday, pinch Marcus Smith astatine full-back and accustomed skipper Maro Itoje connected nan bench, arsenic England caput coach Steve Borthwick rotates done his combinations erstwhile more.

Chandler Cunningham-South, who tin play astatine flanker and 2nd row, will make his first Test commencement astatine number 8 arsenic Borthwick attempts to adhd extent successful nan position pursuing Tom Willis' determination to move to France astatine nan extremity of nan play and retired of world eligibility.

With Tom Roebuck near retired aft suffering a recurrence of an ankle title successful training connected Tuesday, Tommy Freeman reverts to nan wing, allowing Ollie Lawrence to make his world comeback successful nan centres.

Lawrence tore his Achilles tendon successful nan Six Nations triumph complete Italy successful March, but has made a faster-than-expected betterment aft a rehabilitation, featuring hyperbaric chambers and reddish ray therapy, which he documented connected societal media.

Northampton's Alex Coles comes into nan 2nd row, pinch Itoje's power saved for nan 2nd half.

George Ford, who steered England done a successful circuit of nan Americas successful nan summertime while some Fin and Marcus Smith were connected British and Irish Lions duty, has been near retired of nan matchday squad entirely.

England adjunct coach Kevin Sinfield admitted that vexation was inevitable among his trio of fly-halves.

"You don't," he told Rugby Union Weekly erstwhile asked really he managed to support them each happy.

"But that is really it should be. At this level location is ever personification who is simply a small disgruntled, who has possibly has a small spot of frustration.

"They are each impatient because they each want to play now, and want nan garment now, but an knowing of that is really it is different to their clubs and their selflessness and putting nan squad first is really important.

"Of people it takes immoderate managing, but they are each bully guys and understand nan worth of nan squad and that sometimes they are going to get bad news and person to activity done it for illustration everyone else.

"We person seen different nations beryllium capable to interchange who starts astatine 10 and done it very very well. The value of our 10s intends we are capable to do similar."

Sale prop Asher Opoku-Fordjour is named connected nan chair pinch British and Irish Lion Will Stuart near retired of nan squad, while Bath's Henry Arundell, whose past England quality earlier a move to Racing 92 was astatine nan 2023 Rugby World Cup is nan only backline screen among nan replacements.

England: M Smith, Freeman, Lawrence, Dingwall, Feyi-Waboso; F Smith, Mitchell; Genge, Cowan-Dickie, Heyes, Coles, Chessum, Pepper, Earl, Cunningham-South

Replacements: George, Baxter, Opoku-Fordjour, Itoje, T Curry, Pollock, Spencer, Arundell