70; T Stimpson for Johnston, 76.Barbarians: G Murphy (Leicester and Ireland); J Vidiri (Auckland and New Zealand), J Little (Bristol and Australia), P Howard (Leicester and Australia), J Lomu (Wellington and New Zealand); B Van Straaten (W Province and South Africa), A Gomarsall (Gloucester and England); G Pagel (Northampton and South Africa), N Drotske (Blue Bulls and South Africa), C Dowd (Auckland and New Zealand), R Brooke (Auckland and New Zealand), I Jones (Gloucester and New Zealand), P Lam (Newcastle and Western Samoa), J Kronfeld (Leicester and New Zealand), G Teichmann (Newport and South Africa, capt). Replacements: A Garvey (Newport and South Africa) for Pagel, 50; R Cockerill (Leicester and England) for Drotske, 50; P Carbonneau (Pau and France) for Gomarsall, 62; F Lombard (Blue Bulls) for Vidiri, 62; J Guscott (Bath and England) for Little, 66; T Bowman (New South Wales and Australia) for Brooke, 66; A Gardiner (Bath) for Lam, 76; J Little for Murphy, 74.Referee: C Thomas (Wales).ENGLAND TOUR SQUAD AND ITINERARYSQUADBACKS: T Stimpson (Leicester), M Stephenson (Newcastle), D Rees (Bristol), P Sampson (Wasps), P Sackey (London Irish), T Voyce (Bath), L Lloyd (Leicester), J Lewsey (Wasps), B Johnston (Saracens), J Ewens (Gloucester), F Waters (Wasps), J Noon (Newcastle), A King (Wasps), O Barclay (Bath), D Walder (Newcastle), K Bracken (Saracens, capt), M Wood (Wasps), S Benton (Leeds).FORWARDS: D Flatman (Saracens), J White (Saracens), T Woodman (Gloucester), R Nebbitt (Leicester), G Rowntree (Leicester), D West (Leicester), M Regan (Bath), A Long (Bath), C Fortey (Gloucester), S Thompson (Northampton), S Shaw (Wasps), S Borthwick (Bath), B Kay (Leicester), T Palmer (Leeds), A Brown (Bristol), M Corry (Leicester), A Hazell (Gloucester), J Worsley (Wasps), S White-Cooper (Harlequins), A Sanderson (Sale), L Moody (Leicester), P Sanderson (Harlequins).MANAGEMENT: C Woodward (team manager), B Ashton (head coach), J Wells, E Hanley, P Grayson, D Reddin (assistant coaches), S Hardy, P Keith-Roach, G Glynn, J Lydon (coaching development team).ITINERARY2 June: First Test v Canada (Toronto).5 June: v Canada A (Vancouver).9 June: Second Test v Canada (Vancouver).12 June: USA A (venue tba).16 June: Test v USA (San Francisco).. In the end the rumble that Jonah Lomu was going to appear for the New Zealand Sevens team straight after his exertions for the Barbarians against England turned out to be unfounded rumour They took the field against Canada without him. In the end the rumble that Jonah Lomu was going to appear for the New Zealand Sevens team straight after his exertions for the Barbarians against England turned out to be unfounded rumour. They took the field against Canada without him. Although he had been registered with the squad and will take part in the quarter-final stages of the Emirates sponsored World Sevens Series at Twickenham today, Lomu clearly felt that the walk across the A316 would be too much and he stayed away. New Zealand did not do too badly without Lomu, the shame of it was that there were so few people to enjoy the spectacle.
The clash with the big match over the road was the problem, although once it was over there was a steady trickle of additional fans to The Stoop.They arrived in time to see an unfancied England qualify for a quarter-final tie against Fiji, having finished top of Pool D after a thrilling decider against Samoa in which the London Irish full-back Simon Hunt scored a hat-trick of tries as they fought back from 19-5 down to win by three points. The fans also found some new heroes: Hunt, of course, and Bruno Green, the West Indies flier whose team might have lost all three games, but who still managed three scintillating tries.Then there was New Zealand's Karl Tenana, pacy, powerful and prolific. He ran in four tries, but then limped off and must be a doubt for today's matches. They still have Malili Muliaina, another speed merchant possessed of immense strength, who also notched up four tries.
Also there was Simon Amor of England, who scored the longest try when he covered more than 90 metres against Wales.The quality of play was a shade or two better than the inter-match entertainment. Supposed soundalikes (and from a distance lookalikes) took the stage and sang the odd ditty. The rendition of Maggie May was given by someone who looked more Rod Hull than Rod Stewart, and when 'Tina Turner' came out a little later she put one in mind of 'Emu', but did sound almost like the singer. 'Elvis' seemed hopelessly out of sorts, but 'Robbie Williams' at least had a voice, even if it was not like the man himself and so did 'Freddie Mercury'.Back on the pitch the tournament got off to the ideal start when the King of Sevens, Waisale Serevi, scored the first try in the first match, a trouncing of Portugal. There really were some mis-matches, even if a lot of the more experienced nations were without their big stars. Spain stung Argentina with a last minute victory, but then came up against Australia and things did not go quite to plan.The Spaniards had not been given such a serious hammering since Sir Francis Drake and Co annihilated the Armada.
