England team for first test

England team for first test:-

15 Mike Brown, 14 Anthony Watson, 13 Jonathan Joseph, 12 Luther Burrell, 11 Marland Yarde, 10 Owen Farrell, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Billy Vunipola, 7 James Haskell, 6 Chris Robshaw, 5 George Kruis, 4  Maro Itoje, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Dylan Hartley (c), 1 Mako Vunipola.

Replacements:

16 Luke Cowan-Dickie, 17 Matt Mullan, 18 Paul Hill, 19 Joe Launchbury, 20 Courtney Lawes, 21 Danny Care, 22 George Ford, 23 Jack Nowell

Will they beat the Wallabies – I have my doubts

 and the aussies

Australia:

15 Israel Folau, 14 Dane Haylett-Petty, 13 Tevita Kuridrani, 12 Samu Kerevi, 11 Rob Horne, 10 Bernard Foley, 9 Nick Phipps, 8 David Pocock, 7 Michael Hooper, 6 Scott Fardy, 5 Rob Simmons, 4 Rory Arnold, 3 Greg Holmes, 2 Stephen Moore (captain), 1 Scott Sio.

Replacements:
16 Tatafu Polota-Nau, 17 James Slipper, 18 Sekope Kepu, 19 James Horwill, 20 Dean Mumm, 21 Sean McMahon, 22 Nick Frisby, 23 Christian Leali'ifano.


Kurtley Beale's injury is a huge blow for them,...... a backline with

10. Foley    12. Beale   13. S. Kerevi   

11. Taqele Naiyaravoro  14. Kuridrani  15. I. Folau

would have been really difficult to stop,...... I would even have played with Reece Hodge at 12 replacing Beale,..... but probably with the current 23 is enough to beat the poms

poms are going to struggle at breakdowns,..... Haskell is not an openside,...... and having to battle against Poc0ck and Hooper is a very tough task

 Think I must put in a combined thread with all four major SH teams and the visiting teams - even though there is no fantasy selections on the forthcoming test series,  That makes comparisons and checking much easier.   What d o you think?

 yeah, even for the prediction games it's a good thing to have the possibility of checking all the teams in the same thread