Lots of comparisons are being made with England's 2003 team but that team was a class apart, and had been laying together for at least 2 years. Everyone knew the team that would take the pitch for the first game at least a year before the tournament. This time it's a new team with several untried combinations in it. England have to hit the ground running - Fiji are no walkovers, though I expect them to run out of steam in the second half - and should have had their number 1 team inked in 6 months ago, not still at the conceptual stage.
