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England head coach Eddie Jones says next weeks training camp in Brighton represents a great opportunity for players like Danny Cipriani to earn a place on the upcoming tour of Australia. The Grand Slam winners take on the Wallabies in a three-Test series in June, live on Sky Sports, which will provide a chance to gauge just how far they have come under Jones guidance.Preparations for the tour are set to be stepped up between 17-19 May, when a 26-man squad, which includes eight uncapped players, will descend on Brighton for a series of training sessions. Eddie Jones thinks hell have failed if he doesnt get England to the top of rugbys world rankings Players from Premiership semi-finalists Saracens, Exeter, Wasps and Leicester will not be at the camp and Jones is eager to see how some of his new call-ups fare.It is a really important camp for us, he told Sky Sports News HQ. They have all got a great opportunity. Competition for places is intense and we have probably got 40 players competing for 30 spots.Regarding some of the promising forwards he was looking forward to working with, he added: (Charlie) Ewels is a good young lock who has been doing well for Bath.(Teimana) Harrison has come out of the woodwork for Northampton. Pre-Christmas he was not that outstanding but he must have eaten something at Christmas, because his play since has been pretty good!Kyle Sinckler is a young Harlequins prop with great athletic ability and he is going to be competing hard. Kyle Sinckler of Harlequins will be among the youngsters looking to impress Jones An interesting name among the backs is fly-half Danny Cipriani, who, despite missing out on the World Cup squad, is firmly back in England contention after a lengthy spell in the wilderness.Danny has got (rival fly-halves) Owen (Farrell) and George (Ford) in front of him but he has a great opportunity, Jones added.He has great talent and is one of the key reasons Sale have finished so high in the table. I am excited to see what he can do.Two players who will not be at the camp are back rowers Sam Underhill and Steffon Armitage, but Jones says they could well be members of the squad in the future. Steffon Armitage has been linked with a move to Wasps England cannot pick players who are not based in the country unless there are exceptional circumstances and the 19-year-old Underhill is playing for Ospreys in Wales, while he studies in Cardiff.But Jones said: He has been playing pretty well for Ospreys. We have got the situation that he plays outside of England and we have got to sort that situation out.I think we are close to a resolution and there is no doubt he will be selected in an England squad in the next six months.The highly-rated Armitage has been playing in France but has been reportedly linked with a move to Wasps, which could see him back in international contention.Asked if a returning Armitage might be in his thoughts, Jones said: If he comes back and manages to get in the Wasps side, which will be difficult to do.If he gets fit and he wants to play for England, then we will consider him. He is certainly a talented player. Also See: England demands No 1 status Wales unveil squad Cipriani earns England recall Scotland opt for experience Malik Beasley Jersey . -- Jonathan Vilmas season is over and his future on the football field is in doubt. Dikembe Mutombo Jersey . Canada will host Japan in a World Group first-round match in 2015. 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"Im excited just for a new start, just to see where things are going, to bring some kind of tradition back to the team and guys being excited about something new," the defensive back said during a conference call Monday after agreeing to stay with the Bombers rather than go to free agency next month.MONTREAL - That Wandrille Lefevre and Maxim Tissot played a hand in the Montreal Impacts 2-2 draw at Chicago last week was not big news around Major League Soccer. But it was significant for Montreal, as both are graduates of the Impact Academy, which was set up in 2010 to develop mainly local talent for the pro team. Lefevre, and possibly Tissot, may see more action in Houston tonight when the third-place Impact (13-9-7) take on the fourth-place Dynamo (12-10-8) in a key battle in the Eastern Conference playoff race. "Weve always had a good pool of players in Quebec," assistant coach Mauro Biello said Thursday. "Now that we have the academy, we can mould them the way we want. "Itll be an advantage to us. I think well see the results over the next five to seven years." Against Chicago, Lefevre had a strong game replacing injured central defender Alessandro Nesta. Tissot substituted for Andrew Wenger in the midfield in the 67th minute. Twenty minutes later, he headed in the equalizer. The 23-year-old Lefevre, a native of France who moved to Montreal as a teenager, and 21-year-old Tissot, of Gatineau, Que., are among five academy graduates to sign with the MLS team. The others are defender Karl Ouimette of Repentigny, Que., Morocco native Zakaria Messoudi of Montreal and goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau of Greenfield Park, Que. Tissot has appeared in three MLS games and has a goal and an assist, both in matches against Chicago. Lefevre has played two. "Tissot had a very good training camp but then got injured," said Biello. "He came back and started a game against Salt Lake, but then broke a toe. "Hes shown good things. Hes got his rhythm back. He had a solid game against C.D. Heredia (in the CONCACAF Champions League) and then he got into the game in Chicago and scored. "Lefevres a little older. He had a solid game against Chicago." Before they joined MLS last season, the Impact were a power in various leagues for most of the previous 18 seasons, always with a strong core of local players. Some now coach or manage the club, including Biello, sporting director Nick De Santis, director of soccer operations Matt Jordan, team manager Adam Braz and academy coaches Jason DiTullio and Simon Gatti. But the calibre of play is higher in MLS, and the Impact have imported most of their starters from Europe and South America, plus Americans like goalie Troy Perkins, fullback Jeb Brovsky and midfielder Justin Mapp. The only local in the starting 11 is 34-year-old Patrice Bernier. The midfielder from Brossard, Que., began his pro career with the Impact in the A-League from 20000 to 2002, played nine seasons in Europe and returned when the club entered MLS in 2012.dddddddddddd They hope to produce more and get back to that local flavour under Impact assistant coach Philippe Eullaffroy, the Frenchman who has been director of the academy since its inception. His work is beginning to pay off. "Were very happy with the progress of our young players," said Biello. The 37-year-old Nesta, nursing a groin injury, and midfielder Hernan Bernardello, who is recovering from a sprained ankle, did not make the trip to Houston. Bernardello has resumed practising with the team and may be ready for a home game next week against New England. Coach Marco Schallibaum keeps his starting 11 secret, but it is likely that Lefevre will be back in Nestas spot, with Tissot on the bench. Midfielder Felipe Martins will return after serving a one-game suspension for accumulating five yellow cards, which will bump a player, likely Wenger, from the formation. The Impact beat Houston twice at home this season 2-0 and 5-0, but they expect a tougher match at BBVA Compass Stadium. The Dynamo have found their legs of late, with two wins and a draw in their last three games. "As a coach, when you get beat by a team by zero, thats always the first reminder," said Biello. "Theyll be ready to make amends. "We expect a playoff-type game." Marco Di Vaio, the MLS leader with 19 goals, has three against Houston this season. Felipe has two goals and a pair of assists. The Dynamo are starting a run of three home games against the best of the Eastern Conference and hope to use that to nail down a playoff position. After Montreal, striker Will Bruin and his Houston teammates will face second-place Kansas City and first-place New York. Montreal, which has a win and two draws in its last three road games, holds a two-point lead on Houston with a game in hand. The Impact have five games left to play in the regular season, only two of them at home. "This is a good opportunity for us," Dynamo captain Brad Davis told the clubs website. "This Friday is the most important one. "We can jump Montreal in the standings and, hopefully, give ourselves room." Notes _ The game was to have aired in French on TVA Sport, but was bumped by an Ottawa Senators hockey game to RDSinfo, which normally runs sports news in a 30-minute loop. . . The Impact opened its new FieldTurf practice pitch next to Saputo Stadium this week. The field will also be used by the academy and some neighborhood teams, and will be home field for the University of Quebec at Montreal varsity squad. ' ' '