Penalties will kill our Boks hopes warns Itoje

By NICK CAIN

MARO Itoje has warned his England team-mates to cut out the penalties or face defeat on their Springbok tour which starts next week.
Discipline, says the Saracens lock, will decide whether they come back from South Africa with a first series victory.
Itoje, right, said they cannot concede the number of penalties that they did in the Six Nations – especially at the breakdown – and expect to beat the Boks in the three-Test series.
Reflecting on the three consecutive losses to Scotland, France and Ireland, Itoje said: “There were two significant areas in which ...

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