England coach Steve Borthwick has praised Henry Pollock following his impact off the bench in the 25-7 win over Australia on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Pollock came on in the second half and scored on the hour mark to give his side some breathing room before England powered home with Alex Mitchell and Luke Cowan-Dickie also scoring late on to close out the game.<\/p>\n
Pollock — who is fast becoming a star of English rugby — celebrated passionately in trademark fashion with fans at Twickenham sharing in his delight.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old toured with the British and Irish Lions in the summer following a breakout season with Northampton and England.<\/p>\n
Borthwick praised the back row for his impact on the game as well as on the wider group.<\/p>\n
“I think everybody’s excited by when Henry Pollock gets on the pitch, what he brings, I think there’s no doubt about that,” Borthwick told his post-match news conference.<\/p>\n
“I think he’s probably the most excited person. I think the way he is and the energy he brings, he’s a ball of energy and I love having that character in the squad.<\/p>\n
“I think we’ve got a great blend of personalities developing within the team and from the senior leadership group, I think [they] have done a great job this week.”<\/p>\n
Henry Pollock sealed England’s win over Australia.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n
The bench made a sizable impact on the game and swung momentum in England’s favour, showing the hosts depth compared to Australia’s.<\/p>\n
Having lost several games late on last year, Borthwick was pleased with the way his side handled the last 20 minutes in particular.<\/p>\n
– Pollock’s decisive try was representative of England’s hard-fought win “I think it’s a sign that you can see the squads building in depth,” Borthwick said.<\/p>\n “It has been an important summer for English rugby, with a number of players away with the Lions. another number away [for England] in Argentina and America.<\/p>\n “It has enabled the squad to grow and that’s pleasing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England coach Steve Borthwick has praised Henry Pollock following his impact off the bench in the 25-7 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-256029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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