{"id":286469,"date":"2025-07-23T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286469\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T23:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:48:10","slug":"under-pressure-england-trio-could-lose-central-contracts-to-farrell-and-pollock-page-3-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286469\/","title":{"rendered":"Under-pressure England trio could lose central contracts to Farrell and Pollock &#8211; Page 3 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83e\udd81\u00a0<strong>IN: Luke Cowan-Dickie (Sale Sharks, Hooker, Age 32)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Replaces: Theo Dan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cowan-Dickie is back \u2014 and looking more like his old self. Now with Sale Sharks and impressing on Lions duty, the 31-year-old brings powerful scrummaging, top-tier set-piece work, and huge physicality around the park. He\u2019s experienced, proven, and a former British &amp; Irish Lion.<\/p>\n<p>Theo Dan, on the other hand, underwhelmed during England\u2019s summer tour. Despite his raw power and future potential, his set-piece struggles \u2014 particularly at the lineout \u2014 have raised concerns. LCD\u2019s return to full fitness may prove too hard to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Final Word<\/p>\n<p>If England stick with 17 EPS contracts, we\u2019re backing\u00a0<strong>Pollock, Farrell, and Cowan-Dickie<\/strong>\u00a0to break in \u2014 with\u00a0<strong>Martin, Slade, and Dan<\/strong>\u00a0making way. Harsh calls? Maybe. But international rugby waits for no one.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83e\udd81\u00a0IN: Luke Cowan-Dickie (Sale Sharks, Hooker, Age 32) Replaces: Theo Dan Cowan-Dickie is back \u2014 and looking more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-286469","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\/114905225924104000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286469","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=286469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}