Top of the world: Red Roses with the WXV 1 trophy
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JOHN Mitchell has named a 40-player Red Roses squad for the team’s first training camp of season as they look to build on a successful 2023/24 campaign whcih earned a third consecutive Six Nations Grand Slam and inaugural WXV 1 title in New Zealand.
England will spend five weeks as a collective before facing Six Nations runners-up France and World Champions New Zealand in September. The squad then head out to Canada for WXV 1 where they will face the hosts, USA and the Black Ferns.
Head coach Mitchell ...