In the backs, Lucy Packer and Helena Rowland line up at scrum-half and fly-half, with Jade Shekells partnering Jones in the midfield.<\/p>\n
Jess Breach has been named to start on the right wing against Samoa.\u00a0Sam Mellish\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Breach will switch to the right wing, with Claudia Moloney-MacDonald on the left and Emma Sing at fullback.<\/p>\n
In the forwards, Kelsey Clifford, Lark Atkin-Davies and Sarah Bern make up the front-row, with Lilli Ives Campion and Rosie Galligan at lock.<\/p>\n
The back-row sees the return of Marlie Packer as captain at openside flanker, with Abi Burton at blindside and Maddie Feaunati starting at No. 8.<\/p>\n
Coach John Mitchell said before the tournament he had a plan for selections heading into the group stages.<\/p>\n
– WRWC: Week 1 highlights as England deliver on expectations<\/a> “It has been in our planning to give everyone game time over the first two pool matches and, bar Holly [Aitchison], we’ve been able to execute that with this selection,” Mitchell said.<\/p>\n “Our new combination want to make each other proud and build on our performance against USA in our opening match.<\/p>\n “It will be a great atmosphere for them at one of the most traditional rugby grounds in the country. They’re all excited to get out there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England have made 13 changes for their second Women’s Rugby World Cup match against Samoa in Northampton on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-103457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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