{"id":563872,"date":"2025-11-11T16:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563872\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:01:12","slug":"england-v-new-zealand-george-ford-returns-at-10-to-face-all-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563872\/","title":{"rendered":"England v New Zealand: George Ford returns at 10 to face All Blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England come into the contest on the back of nine successive wins, their longest streak of success since a record-equalling 18-Test run was overseen by Eddie Jones in the wake of the 2015 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A clutch of fringe players have emerged as Test regulars, giving coach Steve Borthwick the faith to keep more experienced options on the bench for the business end of matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heyes and Baxter, with 16 caps each, start as props in a continuation of the pairing that impressed against a strong Argentine scrum in the summer, with Genge and Stuart in reserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tom Curry, who has come back from a string of injuries to continue delivering big-match performances for England and Lions, is also poised among a high-quality set of replacements dubbed &#8216;the Pom Squad&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow finisher Henry Pollock, along with Ben Earl, will be part of a contingency plan to cover the backline if injuries bite deep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England have managed to accelerate away from both Australia and Fiji in the final 20 minutes of matches so far this autumn, but New Zealand, after negotiating a 25-17 scare against Scotland at Murrayfield last time out, will test that tactic more thoroughly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England come into the contest on the back of nine successive wins, their longest streak of success since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-563872","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563872","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=563872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}