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ENGLAND’S players are confident they can adjust to the effects of playing at altitude before running out at Denver’s Mile High Stadium tomorrow.
The bulk of Wayne Bennett’s squad have spent the last four days in Colorado and have had two training sessions so far in the build-up to the mid-season Test against New Zealand.
Prop Tom Burgess said: “A few of the boys have been saying they have felt the altitude a little bit.
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