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England head coach Stuart Lancaster looking for evolution not revolution

Image: Stuart Lancaster: England coach looking ahead to 2015 already

England head coach Stuart Lancaster is looking for evolution not revolution as he resumes his build up to the 2015 World Cup.

Sell-out

Twickenham will be an 82,000 sell-out for the Fiji game, the best crowd England have ever attracted for a Test against a tier two nation. "People quite rightly expect us to go out and win every game. That is right with the way we have developed as a team," Lancaster said. "We have to manage the expectancy but also deal with it. The All Blacks have an expectation to win every time and they continue to do so. "We are not there yet but it will be a good test in the next four weeks to see if we are." But Lancaster warned that Fiji will be no pushovers. "It would be great to get off to a good start but you only have to look at their two centres (Leicester's Vereniki Goneva and Exeter's Sireli Naqelevuki), they are two of the most dangerous players we have in the Premiership at the moment," he said. "Put those together in the centre, we will have our hands full if we play loosely and give them the freedom of Twickenham. "But we definitely want to get off to a good start because we know what is coming around the corner."