The experiment of fielding Manu Tuilagi on the wing is abandoned, for now at least, in favour of restoring the centre pairing with Kyle Eastmond outside Burns that caused more trouble for the All Blacks in Auckland than Luther Burrell and Twelvetrees did in Dunedin.
“Kyle has come in, had an opportunity and taken it. Now is the right time to give him a second chance,” said Lancaster – which does still beg the question, if Eastmond played that well, why then leave him out?
Danny Care had such a mediocre game last Saturday that his scrum-half place would probably have reverted to Ben Youngs even without a shoulder injury. And whereas Lancaster has moved away from his Six Nations backline, he has mostly gone back to his pack.
The particular exception is Joe Launchbury, displaced at lock by Six Nations partner Courtney Lawes as Geoff Parling – 20 tackles in Dunedin – keeps Lancaster’s favour after being England’s stand-out tight forward in each of the first two Tests.
Otherwise hooker Dylan Hartley and No8 Billy Vunipola move up from the bench, Lancaster hoping Launchbury and Ben Morgan are given a better chance of making a difference in the final quarter than Lawes and Vunipola were a week ago.
England:Â Brown; Ashton, Tuilagi, Eastmond, Yarde; Burns, Youngs; Marler, Hartley, Wilson, Lawes, Parling, Wood, Robshaw (capt), Vunipola. Reps: Webber, Mullan, Brookes, Launchbury, Morgan, Dickson, Cipriani, Burrell.
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