Packer Captains Much-changed England Against Samoa

Women's Rugby World Cup: England v Samoa

Venue: Franklin's Gardens, Northampton Date: Saturday, 30 August Kick-off: 17:00 BST

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England person made 13 changes to their starting XV for Saturday's Women's Rugby World Cup crippled against Samoa successful Northampton.

Former skipper Marlie Packer takes complete arsenic skipper from Zoe Aldcroft arsenic John Mitchell opts to remainder his regular starters.

The 111-cap flanker has not played since being sent disconnected successful her side's emphatic World Cup warm-up triumph complete Spain, wherever she again captained nan broadside successful Aldcroft's absence.

The Red Roses are connected a 28-game winning tally aft comfortably defeating nan United States 69-7 successful nan opening crippled of nan World Cup successful Sunderland past Friday.

Utility backmost Helena Rowland and Claudia Moloney-MacDonald return from wounded to commencement astatine fly-half and connected nan near helping respectively.

Jess Breach, who is 1 people distant from 50 world tries, retains her spot aft 2 tries against nan USA, arsenic does awesome extracurricular centre Megan Jones.

Jones is joined by Gloucester-Hartpury's Jade Shekells successful nan midfield, pinch Emma Sing named astatine full-back.

In nan forwards, fastener Lilli Ives Campion and flanker Abi Burton are group for World Cup debuts aft being named to start.

Maddie Feaunati starts astatine number 8 against nan federation her begetter Zak played for 13 times.

Samoa, who are afloat amateur and classed 15th successful nan world, mislaid their opening crippled 73-0 to Australia.

Given England played 2 different teams crossed this year's Women's Six Nations and still won a 4th consecutive Grand Slam, they are apt to grounds a large scoreline successful Northampton contempt nan wholesale changes.

A bonus-point triumph will put Mitchell's broadside successful a beardown position to suffice for nan knockout stages.

More to follow.

England: Sing; Breach, Jones, Shekells, Moloney-MacDonald; Rowland, Packer; Clifford, Atkin-Davies, Bern, Campion, Galligan, Burton, Packer (capt), Feaunati.

Replacements: Campbell, Carson, Muir, Talling, Kabeya, Hunt, Harrison, Kildunne.