Manu Tuilagi: England's Leicester centre set to return against Australia
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Manu Tuilagi is expected to make his long-awaited England return in their final autumn international against Australia on 24 November.
The Leicester centre was expected to play against South Africa in the first match of the autumn, but he suffered a groin injury in training.
Saturday's fixture against 2019 World Cup hosts Japan will come too soon, but defence coach John Mitchell says Tuilagi could face the Wallabies.
"Manu is progressing nicely," he said.
"He was doing some running intervals with the medical team. We'll make a decision once he's at 100% but we're working him towards the Australia game.
"It's an adductor injury that needs to be trained at high intensity.
"He hasn't reached high intensity yet, so he is progressing towards that."
Former New Zealand coach Mitchell believes England are closing the gap on the All Blacks after suffering a one-point defeat to the world champions last weekend.
Steve Hansen's men overturned a 15-point advantage to lead 16-15, before Sam Underhill's late score was disallowed because of a tight offside call against Courtney Lawes in the build-up to the try.
"It was a really good performance, a real ding-dong and a game of inches," Mitchell said.
"You can be critical of some costly errors as the game wore on and there was a big moment in terms of a TMO decision.
"If you put all those things aside and look at where we want to head to, we got a lot of belief out of it.
"The gap is very small, but there's still a gap that we want to continue to narrow and clearly we've got time to do that."
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Meanwhile we should try to get our elite players contracted to England and protected from overuse, as Ireland and NZ do.
Surely no coincidence that the #1 and #2 nations both have fewer long-term injury issues and central contracts?
Totally agree, Slade hasn't really done much with the shirt so I reckon Daly she be given a shot at 13, in his club position.
No room in your squad for Mark Wilson ?
Robshaw back in ? Seriously you need to watch more rugby
But he is not a line out threat and never will be. That is why Curry, who is a very good line out operator needs to play in back row
Watson at 15. At least he can get under a high ball.
Cips is never coming near a red rose shirt again. Faz/Ford
Where were NZ on your scale when SA beat them recently?
As for Manu, I hope he doesn't get rushed in- Australia looked very physical in defence against Wales and it would be a shame to see him sidelined. Again.
Sadly his off field conduct has been his achilles and has sullied his reputation. Last chance saloon for him to prove himself.