England World Cup squad: Stuart Lancaster axes seven players

• Ashton, Yarde, Rokoduguni and Eastmond among those dropped• Dickson, Kvesic and Mullan also miss out on selectionAnd then there were 39. The game of musical chairs that is England’s World Cup squad selection still has some twists to come but Stuart Lancaster’s eventual 31-man squad is finally taking shape. While eight further players will be nudged aside at the month’s end, there is now a far more definite sense of where Lancaster is heading.In dispensing with seven members of his wider training squad – Chris Ashton, Marland Yarde, Semesa Rokoduguni, Kyle Eastmond, Lee Dickson, Matt Kvesic a…