| Ticket broker: Bucks’ Penn State, Iowa games growing in popularity Ohio State University football’s much-touted match against the University of Michigan remains among college football’s most sought-after events, but two other November Buckeyes games are rising in the ranks, according to online ticket broker TicketCity.com. feeds.bizjournals.com |
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Martin Johnson forced to call up four reinforcements to England squad • Joe Marler catches the eye with a mohican haircut• Problems in scrum ahead of New Zealand gameThe England head coach, Martin Johnson, has been forced to promote a quartet of emergency replacements after four near-certain candidates for next week's 22-man squad against New Zealand were left struggling with injuries.The most eye-catching is the 20-year-old Harlequins prop Joe Marler, who likes to top off his 6ft, 17st 10lb frame with a mean mohican haircut. He did not endure a comfortable afternoon against Gloucester at Kingsholm on Saturday but has still been summoned as cover for Bath's David Wilson, who hurt his back in the warm-up at Leicester on the same day.Saracens' Brad Barritt, Wasps' Dan Ward-Smith and Northampton's Tom Wood have also been elevated from the Saxons squad following untimely mishaps to Riki Flutey, Simon Shaw and Hendre Fourie. Flutey and Shaw have calf problems while Fourie has damaged ribs. All three are being assessed by England's medical staff but their chances of featuring against the All Blacks on 6 November seem slim.The injuries leave Johnson with ticklish decisions to make in all three rows of the scrum as well as in midfield. Tim Payne, the incumbent loosehead prop, suffered so badly against Northampton yesterday that he was withdrawn at half-time. Andrew Sheridan looks a more likely starter, with Dan Cole on the tight head and Paul Doran-Jones on the bench. Marler, who hails from Sussex and was a stand-out member of England's Under-20 team, will have to bide his time for now.Shaw's likely absence opens the way for Tom Palmer and Courtney Lawes to renew their second-row partnership but there will be a vacancy at open-side flanker should Lewis Moody not demonstrate his match fitness for Bath against Quins on Sunday. Fourie was a genuine contender for the No7 shirt and Wood, for all the impressive strides he has made since joining the Saints from Worcester, is not quite ready to tangle with Richie McCaw at the highest level. Johnson will be inclined, in Moody's absence, to favour the tried and trusted Joe Worsley alongside Tom Croft and Nick Easter.As for inside centre, the elevation of the South-African-reared Barritt, a consistently direct presence for Saracens this year, will not prevent Shontayne Hape from wearing 12 against New Zealand. The former Kiwi rugby league international does not play at inside centre for his club but Olly Barkley, his Bath team-mate, does not seem the management's preference and none of the next generation of homegrown alternatives – Anthony Allen, Jordan Turner-Hall, Shane Geraghty – has made an unanswerable case for inclusion. Johnson is due to announce tomorrow which players will be released back to their clubs this weekend, with Moody and Toby Flood among those keen for some live action ahead of the All Black encounter.Premiership Rugby, meanwhile, has warned the International Rugby Board not to overstuff the already congested Test calendar. "There's a danger of going for volume over quality," said Mark McCafferty, Premiership Rugby's chief executive. "It's important it doesn't expand to the point where it becomes irrelevant. Other sports have fallen victim to that."McCafferty is also pressing the IRB to take a clear stance on player-release periods and insurance issues, the English clubs having highlighted the fact that, technically, countries cannot have access to their English-based players until five weeks before next year's World Cup. "We wouldn't want to reach the point where we go for the nuclear option," said McCafferty, calling for individual unions to pay closer attention to the redrafted rules governing club v country disputes. "The lack of union understanding of Regulation 9 is frightening in some cases."England rugby union teamMartin JohnsonNew Zealand rugby union teamRobert Kitsonguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |