Roebuck Breakthrough Inspires England Debutant Carpenter

United States v England

Date: Saturday 19 July Kick-off: 22:05 BST Venue: Audi Field, Washington DC

Coverage: Live matter commentary connected nan BBC Sport website and app

Full-back Joe Carpenter says he wants to travel nan illustration of Sale team-mate Tom Roebuck successful claiming a regular England spot erstwhile he makes his Test debut against nan United States connected Saturday.

Carpenter toured Japan and New Zealand past summertime pinch England, without winning a cap, and was near retired of Steve Borthwick's autumn and Six Nations selections.

However, pinch Marcus Smith connected Lions work and George Furbank retired injured, he has been portion of nan squad this summer, scoring a effort successful nan non-cap warm-up lucifer against a France XV past month.

Roebuck, Carpenter's erstwhile house-mate, was disappointment to not get much crippled clip successful Japan and New Zealand past summer, but made his first England commencement against Wales successful nan Six Nations and has 4 tries successful his past 4 Tests.

"I'm excited to rip in," Carpenter told BBC Sport.

"An opportunity to play for England is monolithic and, immoderate crippled it is, it's an opportunity to put my champion ft guardant and hopefully enactment successful nan squad and get much opportunities.

"It's awesome to beryllium successful this situation pinch Tom and spot him thrive. I deliberation he's connected 5 aliases six caps now and truthful I'm massively proud of him.

"We lived successful academy houses together, and past moved into municipality together earlier yet splitting disconnected to unrecorded pinch our partners. He's decidedly my champion mate successful position of rugby.

"To person personification that adjacent to you doing it, it conscionable pushes you to beryllium amended and get location pinch him.

"Unfortunately, he's not playing this weekend. It would person been cool to stock nan section pinch him successful an England shirt.

"But, I'm hoping that clip will travel astatine immoderate point."

Carpenter faces sizeable title for nan 15 shirt.

Leicester's Freddie Steward started some wins complete Argentina earlier successful nan tour, while, successful summation to Furbank and Smith, injured Lion Elliot Daly and Henry Arundell, backmost successful England contention aft moving to Bath, tin besides play full-back.

However, nan 23-year-old believes he is good suited to nan attacking, opportunistic style that England want to play.

"For maine there's a batch connected footwear return and beating nan first man, which is simply a large attraction present - getting nan boys connected nan beforehand foot," he said.

"That's massive. And besides being that separator relationship that gets nan shot to nan wingers. We person sewage Cadan [Murley] and Manny [Immanuel Feyi-Waboso] this play who are perfectly flying. I want those boys to get nan ball.

"I get connected pinch Freddie really well. It's awesome erstwhile that's nan lawsuit because you tin compete together, study together and get amended together.

"Freddie is an aerial beast, isn't he? That has been an area of my crippled complete nan past 3 years that I've been trying to lucifer to his because evidently that's 1 of 1 of his USPs.

"And besides really he carries nan shot and his protect activity successful nan backfield - his positioning is ever spot on."

Even pinch Roebuck rested, Sale are nan best-represented nine successful England's XV successful Washington pinch fly-half George Ford and props Bevan Rodd and Asher Opoku-Fordjour alongside Carpenter.

Ben Curry is connected nan chair and, down nan scenes, Sale's defence coach Byron McGuigan and physio Nav Sandhu person been seconded to England's unit this summer.

Sale mislaid to Steward's Leicester successful nan Premiership semi-finals successful June, nan 4th clip successful nan past 5 seasons that they person reached nan play-offs.

"I deliberation that practice benignant of reflects nan past fewer seasons astatine Sale really," Carpenter added.

"All nan lads and each nan coaches person been awesome here, but it is really bully that we've sewage specified a bully unit of Sale boys here.

"Next twelvemonth for america it is astir really we tin support that consistency passim nan twelvemonth and I deliberation it will show pinch nan boys present and nan boys we person signed."

Sale brace Tom Curry and Luke Cowan-Dickie are touring pinch nan Lions this summer, while Raffi Quirke and Rekeiti Ma'asi-White are connected England's fringes and 2nd statement Ben Bamber and hooker Nathan Jibulu person been progressive pinch England A.