{"id":1139531,"date":"2026-08-09T10:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T10:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1139531\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T10:59:23","slug":"peter-winterbottom-time-to-find-out-what-henry-pollock-can-do-from-the-start-as-englands-no-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1139531\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Winterbottom: Time to find out what Henry Pollock can do from the start as England\u2019s No.8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I would start Henry Pollock at No.8 for England ahead of Ben Earl.<br \/>Pollock is an incredible talent and there are things he can do on a rugby pitch that very few players are capable of.<br \/>We saw another example of that with his hat-trick off the bench against Fiji and, for all the talk about the impact he can make as a replacement, I think the time has come to see what he can do from the start.<br \/>So if I was picking the England side, I would put him in instead of Earl.<br \/>Hard graft<br \/>I know head coach Steve Borthwick clearly likes Earl and he has produced some excellent performances for England, b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 I would start Henry Pollock at No.8 for England ahead of Ben Earl.Pollock is an incredible talent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1139532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5008],"tags":[381,748,9030,393,1123,36,20681,4884,12074,188983,704,6875,11653,2196,16,15],"class_list":["post-1139531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-england","tag-bristol","tag-britain","tag-championship","tag-england","tag-featured","tag-france","tag-george-ford","tag-great-britain","tag-harlequins","tag-london-irish","tag-new-zealand","tag-premiership","tag-premium","tag-south-africa","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117065204733913526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1139532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}