England open their Test campaign against Tonga at Twickenham next Saturday but there is no ignoring the challenge of the world champions this autumn
“I know it sounds like the biggest cliche in the book,” says Tom Curry in a break between training stints with the England squad in Jersey to a collective sigh from a small band of reporters hanging on his every word. “But we can only focus on the next game.”
That’s the trouble with cliches. They are usually true. England open their autumn Test campaign against Tonga at Twickenham this Saturday. Curry is right in acknowledging that the squad should not get ahead of themselves before a first course which preludes tastier dishes, meetings with Australia and South Africa. “Tonga will bring their physicality and pace and they can cause us problems,” Curry adds.
