{"id":268026,"date":"2025-07-17T01:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T01:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268026\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T01:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T01:14:10","slug":"george-williams-column-england-buzz-with-100-days-until-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268026\/","title":{"rendered":"George Williams column: England buzz with 100 days until Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">In his BBC Sport column, England captain George Williams spreads the word about the autumn Ashes series and gives insight into the recent squad get-together.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Just 100 days are left until this England side gets the chance to taste an Ashes series again and we face Australia for the first time since 2017.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Me and Jack Welsby went down to London on Wednesday, driving round the city on a red bus and visiting some tourist sites for photos and filming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;re trying to grow the buzz, to get people talking about the series down there and get involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As players, you want to be involved in the biggest of games, and I don&#8217;t see many bigger &#8211; if any.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Even though there is still a lot of rugby to be played in Super League, to play against Australia at the end of the year is the pinnacle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I actually don&#8217;t mind doing the press and promotion. I try to do it with a smile on my face and enjoy it, because it doesn&#8217;t last forever and I&#8217;ll soon be retired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So I&#8217;ve got to enjoy being in the media, growing the game and being England captain, which is something I&#8217;m really proud of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his BBC Sport column, England captain George Williams spreads the word about the autumn Ashes series and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-268026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114865927881253169","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268026","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=268026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}