{"id":719007,"date":"2026-01-25T04:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/719007\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T04:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:29:15","slug":"the-slam-is-within-reach-for-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/719007\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slam is within reach for England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NICK CAIN<br \/>READ HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK <\/p>\n<p>STEVE Borthwick\u2019s ship is steady as she goes as England focus on winning a Six Nations Grand Slam for the first time in a decade. The announcement of the 36-man training squad on Friday showed that the head coach is building depth, and in selection getting most of the round pegs in round holes.<br \/>However, the hiccup in the final quarter of the last autumn international against Argentina indicated that Borthwick still has a crucial balancing act to get right in the front and back rows of the pack\u2013 although in selection terms i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NICK CAINREAD HIS EXPERT OPINION EVERY WEEK STEVE Borthwick\u2019s ship is steady as she goes as England focus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[5012,748,393,36,5014,4884,70569,6875,11653,12070,712,4209,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-719007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-bath","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-gloucester","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-nick-cain","15":"tag-premiership","16":"tag-premium","17":"tag-saracens","18":"tag-scotland","19":"tag-six-nations","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115953858841198914","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719007","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=719007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}