England have always been up there and in contention for honours in the annual Six Nations tournament. Each year they tend to be one of the teams to beat, proven by the fact that they have a 23% success rate in this competition, putting them just ahead of France and Wales. England are a best price currently of 5/1 in the 6 Nations odds to win the championship this year.
England will start as 5/1 fourth favourites in the betting to win their first Six Nations title since the halcyon days of 2003. They begin their campaign with a match against Wales at Twickenham on February 6th (see England Fixtures Below), for which they are 8/13 odds on favourites to win.
Manager, Martin Johnson has included former Kiwi Rugby League star, Shontayne Hape and Northampton Full Back, Ben Foden for the first time in the senior squad.
The full squad of 31 players is as follows:
Forwards
Backs
2010 Fixtures are as follows:
2009 was a decent result for England as they were expected to struggle but went on to claim 2nd spot. England only lost to the Grand Slam Champions Ireland by 1 point at Croke Park and finished the Championship as the top try scorers. they look to have a young side and they will be desparate to go one better in 2010.
The English home venue is Twickenham and has a massive 80,000 capacity but for many of the major games each year it is difficult to get hold of six nations tickets for their home matches.
England have had more ups than downs and their ups have more to do with key England Legends and in recent times Will Carling will go down in history a one of these Legends and his years were saw Grand Slam wins in 1990 and 1991 and he also was captain for the World Cup in 1991 and England managed to get to the final but were beaten by Australia by six points.
Once again Carling showed supremacy in 1992 with another great of the recent English game in Jeremy Guscott who was a fantastic player for England. Another top England player at this time was Rob Andrew who helped England to beat the Australians in the 1995 quarter finals of the Rugby World Cup.
But the best was yet to come for England as a new professional approach came to Northern Hemisphere Rugby and the England team were taking all before them in the lead up to the 2003 Rugby World Cup with the likes of Martin Johnson and Jonny Wilkinson in the line up and everyone will remember the drop-goal in extra-time to bring the Webb Ellis trophy back to England.
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