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England lose another player for World Cup opener
By AAP
Shaunagh Brown will miss England's opening match of the women's Rugby World Cup against Fiji after testing positive for COVID-19.
Prop Brown, who will have to stay in isolation for seven days, is the second England player to test positive for the virus after roommate Sadia Kabeya, who has completed her isolation period.
There were no further positive cases after players and staff in New Zealand were tested on Friday, the team said.
England play their opener against Fiji on Saturday (2.45pm AEDT), the opening day of the tournament.
South Africa will kick the tournament off against France (12.15pm AEDT), while Australia face hosts New Zealand at Eden Park on the same day (5.15pm AEDT).
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Thanks Ed.
Go to commentsPerofeta came back and was available for the eoyt right? Or was that why Love was in the squad (but got injured in the last week)?
It was such a frustrating year. Perofeta looked a service stop gap until Jordan was fit, but then got injured. Plummer was selected because of Pero's injury and dmac shat the bed in the second half in Australia but Clarke (?) got himself binned at the 65 min mark so Plummer couldn't come on (at least with the risk adverse Razors thinking) when he was planned to.
So many other exciting opportunities that could have happened without injuries, but then theyre probably balanced by knowing Sititi probably wouldn't have been given a chance without multiple injuries happened.
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