The Independent - 05.09.2019

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MONDAY 5 AUGUST 2019

Daly: England must look past


threat of injury


Eddie Jones’ side will throw everything at Wales in upcoming friendly (Getty)


JACK DE MENEZES


England will go hell for leather in their four Rugby World Cup warm-up matches despite the threat of
tournament-ending injury lurking just around the corner, insists Elliot Daly.


On Thursday Wales lost their British and Irish Lions No 8 Taulupe Faletau to a World Cup-ending injury,
having broken his collar bone in training fewer than two weeks out from the first warm-up match against
England.


The injury is a cruel blow to Faletau given that he missed the majority of last season due to breaking his
right arm twice, but it is a danger that potentially looms in the near future for every single player gunning


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