England must find motivation for a game with little meaning when they face Argentina in the World Cup third-place play-off on Friday - before the inevitable end-of-cycle change can start.
Courtney Lawes and Ben Youngs have already confirmed their Test retirement, while Joe Marler is nearing the end of her career.Commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live , plus text updates on the BBC Sport website and app.Then, at the height of summer 2024, when Olympic athletes are racing round Stade de France, a bronze medal will carry some weight.
"It is a bit of a battle to see who has got the mental resilience to bounce back," said retiring England scrum-half Ben Youngs"Who has got it in them to say: 'This is the benchmark we are at and we have to bring it again, whether you like it or not?'As England strode out into an empty Stade de France for a final training run on Thursday, Youngs was part of a cluster of veterans at the front of the group.
Eras end and, given rugby's bruising four-year cycle, often they are swept away with the tickertape of a World Cup trophy lift. Similarly at scrum-half, Jack van Poortvliet and Raffi Quirke, both 22, look ready to provide immediate and serious competition to Alex Mitchell after various untimely injuries.While 23-year-old Bevan Rodd looked to be the coming man a couple of autumns ago, with starts in wins over Australia and South Africa, he doesn't seem to have convinced Steve Borthwick, with only one appearance so far at the World Cup.
Leicester's Ollie Hassell-Collins, Newcastle's Adam Radwan and Northampton's Tommy Freeman have all been around the England set-up before while Sale's trio of talented back-three operators - Tom Roebuck, Joe Carpenter and Aaron Reed - will have aspirations to move up to the international stage, along with Saracens' Tom Parton and Exeter's Josh Hodge.
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