ENGLAND TO FACE ALL BLACKS

ENGLAND will face world champions New Zealand in November 2018 for the first time in four years, the Rugby Football Union said this week when announcing the fixtures for next year’s four-match autumn series.

Eddie Jones’s England will host four Test matches at Twickenham, kicking off their campaign against South Africa on November 3 next year.

Seven days later, England face the All Blacks for the first time since losing four matches in 2014. England’s last victory over them was in 2012.

Following the clash against the All Blacks, the side will host Japan, who will play only their second Test against England.

they saw something special.

The Hurricanes’ opensider is 1.96m and 115kg (without a centimetre of fat) and has been an express selection by coach Steve Hansen after just a season with the Hurricanes.

He is that devastating. The new Lomu, only he is closer to the action at flank.

Fifita, for the record, came on a Tongan schools tour to New Zealand when he was 18, was immediately talent spotted and offered a bursary to finish his education in New Zealand.

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The only previous meeting between the two sides was at the inaugural world cup in 1987 when England claimed a 60-7 win over the Brave Blossoms in Sydney.

England will end their series against Australia (November 24), who have lost their last four matches against Jones’s side.

“The 2018 series is incredibly important for England as we build towards the Rugby World Cup in 2019,” Jones said.

“We want to win that series 4-0 and we will need to play extremely well to beat four very good teams over a four-week period.” – Reuters raid the impoverished islands of Tonga, Fiji and Samoa.

The here and now is that this new “freak”, as 1995 England captain Will Carling described Lomu, who can run around wings with ease has to be contained.

If a press conference quote was proffered from a member of the Bok coaching staff it would go along the lines of: “We have noted Fifita but we respect all the All Blacks players and we will rather be concentrating on our own game.”

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