In his BBC Sport column, England captain George Williams talks about his recovery from injury and the growing anticipation of finally facing a touring Australia side on home soil.<\/p>\n
It is less than a month until England run out at Wembley to face Australia in the Ashes series since 2003, and I’m so glad it’s nearly upon us.<\/p>\n
We’ve been waiting that long now. It’s been in the pipeline for a long time so it’s exciting.<\/p>\n
Everyone’s the same: The fans, the players, the coaches, the media.<\/p>\n
We’ve had chances as a team to get together. We’ve had two meet-ups in the past five weeks, so we’ve been among each other a fair bit.<\/p>\n
We’ve got the two sold-out stadiums in Everton and Leeds, and Wembley as well. These are the games we’ve been waiting for. It’s been 20-odd years since we had a proper Ashes tour.<\/p>\n
Shaun Wane has got us prepared and ready and we know what’s needed in this country for the game to grow and for us to win the series.<\/p>\n
Shaun can be really serious but he has a good balance of having a laugh. Chris Barron, or Bubble as he’s known, adds to that – he’s the head of strength and conditioning but also the team joker.<\/p>\n
He does the quizzes for the lads in the evening, and he’ll dress up in daft gear.<\/p>\n
Bubble’s great for the team and I’m sure he’ll have something up his sleeve for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his BBC Sport column, England captain George Williams talks about his recovery from injury and the growing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-173377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}