Tiktok Dance Forfeits Imposed On England Players

Quilter Nations Series: England v Argentina

Venue: Allianz Stadium, Twickenham Date: Sunday 23 November Kick-off: 16:10 GMT

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England's players are operating a fines strategy which punishes infractions against squad rules by forcing nan offenders to movie TikTok dances.

The time after Saturday's 33-19 triumph complete New Zealand, helping Tommy Freeman, who missed nan crippled pinch a hamstring injury, published a video of himself, Fin Smith, Henry Pollock and Freddie Steward performing a synchronised creation regular group to Irish state music.

Freeman's video, captioned "Post crippled feels", has garnered 7 cardinal views connected nan societal media platform.

Centre Henry Slade said that nan quartet spent "about 45 minutes", external coordinating their regular successful his edifice room.

While it is not clear if Freeman's video was imposed aliases motivated by joyousness aft only England's ninth triumph complete nan All Blacks successful a 120-year rivalry, Elliot Daly, who is portion of nan team's fines committee alongside Jamie George, said akin footage exists of different players.

"There are a fewer fines going astir that are TikTok dances," he told nan BBC's Rugby Union Weekly.

"If you do thing wrong, you do a TikTok video. Although it doesn't person to spell connected TikTok."

Steve Borthwick is 1 of those relieved astir that last get-out clause. The caput coach has been roped successful for a cameo connected 1 video that has, truthful acold astatine least, not been shown beyond nan squad room.

"There has been a batch of laughter, a batch of very bad dancing - I deliberation that is 1 of nan amended ones," Borthwick said of Freeman, Steward, Pollock and Smith's effort.

"I was asked to make a impermanent quality successful personification else's TikTok dance, truthful location was a very constricted domiciled to play successful one.

"The squad saw it and that is arsenic acold arsenic it is going!"

England return connected Argentina connected Sunday successful their last lucifer of 2025, seeking an 11th consecutive victory.