England name bok touring squad

London - England head coach Stuart Lancaster has named a 42-man squad for the tour of South Africa.
 

Backs

Anthony Allen (Leicester), Chris Ashton (Northampton), Brad Barritt (Saracens), Mike Brown (Harlequins), Danny Care (Harlequins), Lee Dickson (Northampton), Owen Farrell (Saracens), Toby Flood (Leicester), Ben Foden (Northampton), Alex Goode (Saracens), Charlie Hodgson (Saracens), Jonathan Joseph (London Irish), George Lowe (Harlequins), Ugo Monye (Harlequins), David Strettle (Saracens), Manu Tuilagi (Leicester), Jordan Turner-Hall (Harlequins), Christian Wade (Wasps), Ben Youngs (Leicester)

Forwards

Mouritz Botha (Saracens), Dan Cole (Leicester), Alex Corbisiero (London Irish), Paul Doran-Jones (Northampton), Phil Dowson (Northampton), Carl Fearns (Bath), Joe Gray (Harlequins), Dylan Hartley (Northampton), James Haskell (Highlanders/NZL), Tom Johnson (Exeter), Graham Kitchener (Leicester) Joe Launchbury (Wasps), Joe Marler (Harlequins), Lee Mears (Bath), Ben Morgan (Scarlets/WAL), Matt Mullan (Worcester), Tom Palmer (Stade Francais/FRA), Geoff Parling (Leicester), Chris Robshaw (Harlequins, capt), George Robson (Harlequins), Matt Stevens (Saracens), Thomas Waldrom (Leicester), Tom Youngs (Leicester)

So 42 poms are to hit our shores. How many matches do these poms play here  -seems a large number of players. Must be worrid about the physical game we play here.

I see james haskell is there as well as our Brad Barrit and Mouritz Botha. 

Dave, Becs and Lady MO(NH) will perhaps enlighten us as to the strength of these chips ready fo the frying pan. 

It is a Mouthwatering Traditional Tour with Midweek games, the whole thing. Reason for the big squad.

3 tests with 2 mid week games against SA Barbarian sides.

The squad looks as strong as possible only excluding those that are injured. It pretty much has their last 6 nations test side on board, cant think of anyone missing there except for tom croft the flanker who is injured

I can't wait anymore. I am so excited, I am like a kid in front of a Christmas tree. Hell midweek gaems the lot...........!!!!!

 If used correctly, those mid-eek games may just answer some questions for the coach. Lekkerrrrrrrrrr!

Sadly I think the two mid week games will be made up of a bunch of second division players who will add no value to the equation.

What they should be is the opportunity for Meyer to look at all his up and coming players outside his test 22

Yeah that would be ifeal from the bok coaching point of view. On the other hand these playser will now get the opportunity to show what they can do against international competition. Traditionally they don,t play against opposition this good. a perfect example from History would be Hannes Marais, that played prop for North Eastern Cape and then got spotted and became Springbok captain. So don't discount tha talent running around there. Secondly they will go all out and soften the English up nicely for the boks :)