England’s tough training regimen will pay dividends at Rugby World Cup

On the hottest day of the year, there was no let-up in preparations during the second week of conditioning work at England’s Pennyhill Park training base, with Rowntree disclosing that the players faced “horrible” sessions in a bid to get them “as fit as they have ever been”, so as to hit their target of around 40 minutes’ ball-in-play time in a match.  Read more