{"id":325401,"date":"2025-12-03T17:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325401\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:38:11","slug":"george-furbank-reveals-special-diet-in-bid-to-make-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325401\/","title":{"rendered":"George Furbank reveals special diet in bid to make Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

George Furbank has put his faith in sardines as he looks to keep his dream of playing in the Rugby World Cup<\/a> alive after a year from hell with injury problems.<\/p>\n

The Northampton<\/a> Saints and England<\/a> full-back won the last of his 14 caps in the win over Japan<\/a> last November and has had a difficult year, breaking his arm and then struggling to recover from a long-term calf injury.<\/p>\n

But like the rest of the rugby world, Furbank, 29, was glued to RugbyPassTV for the draw of the 2027 tournament that is on his bucket list of things to play in before he calls time.<\/p>\n

England have drawn Wales, Tonga<\/a> and Zimbabwe<\/a> in Pool F, which could lead to him facing\u00a0Saints team-mate and Sables prop, Cleopas Kundiona<\/a>, on the game\u2019s biggest stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cInterestingly, everyone has been saying \u201cno pool of death this time,\u201d which is interesting. Obviously, it\u2019s an exciting group. Wales, who are building again, Tonga and Zimbabwe,\u201d Furbank said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, Cleopas Kundiona<\/a> gets into the Zimbabwe squad, and if I can, I get into the England squad. It will be nice to see a familiar face. I have a big goal of wanting to go to the World Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to experience that in my career, and this is the one I\u2019ve got to target. In the background, it\u2019s not something I think about day-to-day, but it\u2019s a major goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrying to regain fitness and putting a run together is the main priority at the moment, and seeing where we are at, and putting some form together before the Six Nations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"RWC<\/p>\n

Furbank, who has played in the Saints\u2019 last three games, getting a full 80 minutes under his belt in last weekend\u2019s defeat at Bristol<\/a> Bears, admits he was getting frustrated at the setbacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were a couple of times when I got back into doing training bits, running on the side, or just random bits before training, and I\u2019d feel a little twinge, and it would go again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe time it happened before the summer tour was pretty disappointing because I was pretty desperate to go on that tour to Argentina, and ultimately tried to push that, and it happened again. That was pretty frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furbank says that among the appointments with doctors and specialists, he was sent to see a nutritionist to see if his diet was playing a part in his breakdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to consider the nutritional side of things, and someone there did some testing and stuff to make sure I had what I needed in my diet to put me in a good spot with my body.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was given a few more supplements and more oily fish. Those were the big changes. I don\u2019t mind the oily fish. The missus is probably complaining about adding sardines to a few things, but hopefully it gets me to the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Furbank has put his faith in sardines as he looks to keep his dream of playing in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-325401","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\/325401","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=325401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}