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England seek end to error count against Romania

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England face Romania in a World Cup clash on Saturday with Martin Johnson's men looking to clamp down on a high penalty count as they bid to make it three pool wins out of three. Victories over Argentina (13-9) and Georgia (41-10) have left England top of Pool B but both matches have been overshadowed by lapses in discipline, with the Six Nations champions conceding 11 penalties in the first half alone against Georgia. Johnson, England's 2003 World Cup-winning captain knows, if not this weekend, then certainly in their final Pool clash against old rivals Scotland in Auckland that better opposition goalkicking will punish such indiscipline. "The guys are taking this massively on board and believe me guys are understanding now that once is a mistake, twice is a lot more than that and three times just can't happen," insisted England great Jonny Wilkinson.Johnson has named an experienced team, with wing Mark Cueto set to make his first appearance of the tournament following a back injury.Meanwhile 2003 World Cup-winner Wilkinson has come in for Toby Flood as the pair continue to battle it out to be England's starting fly-half while the pack features seasoned hooker Steve Thompson.For such an England team to concede multiple penalties against Romania, a second-tier nation who've made 11 changes, would spark fresh questions about their ability to cope with the pressure of a World Cup. "Against Georgia I said 'guys, this is not good enough for progressing to where we want to be'," Johnson explained."We've got to be relentless and ruthless." However, Mike Tindall, recalled in place of New Zealand-born centre Shontayne Hape, who scored two of England's six tries against Georgia, added: "Relentless isn't just believing you can score at will against any team, they are the processes you put in place to score. "We skipped some of those processes in the last 20 minutes (against Georgia), if you look at the number of offloads we didn't need to do, that were worse than fifty-fifty that cost us turnover ball."This will be Tindall's first match since the squad's now infamous night out drinking in Queenstown where a mystery blonde was seen kissing the head of the Gloucester midfielder, recently married to Zara Phillips, granddaughter of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, who is in town to watch the match.Meanwhile Romania coach Romeo Gontineac has insisted he's not saving his best players for the pool finale against Georgia, which both Eastern European sides, still searching for a first victory at this World Cup, will regard as a 'winnable' game.Among those left out of the starting side is skipper and renowned hooker Marius Tincu but Gontineac said: "The risk would be to keep the same team because for two games we have played almost the same team." England have won all four of their previous Tests against Romania and when the team last met, at Twickenham 10 years ago, they thrashed the Oaks 134-0 for their largest-ever points total in a full international.But Gontineac said: "England still have a very good team but the Romanian team has changed so it's not going to be the same." However, he expected England would punish any lapses by a Romania side without much experience of top-flight rugby. "I'm sure we had a good preparation before the World Cup but for us 30 seconds, one minute with no attention, at this level it's huge."

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