{"id":467132,"date":"2026-02-08T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/467132\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:00:09","slug":"four-players-added-to-england-squad-as-borthwick-fills-injury-gaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/467132\/","title":{"rendered":"Four players added to England squad as Borthwick fills injury gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

England\u2019s 36-player training squad update does not include Immanuel Feyi-Waboso<\/a>, who will miss the rest of the Guinness Six Nations<\/a> due to a leg injury.<\/p>\n

On Sunday Steve Borthwick<\/a> confirmed that the winger would be out \u2018for weeks\u2019 after RugbyPass exclusively revealed the Exeter Chiefs<\/a> star\u2019s tournament was effectively over.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like Manny will be out for a number of weeks. I don\u2019t know how many, but it\u2019s a number rather than a single week, which is disappointing,\u201d Borthwick said, who also confirmed that Ellis Genge\u2019s withdrawal at Twickenham was precautionary.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that\u2019s unfortunately the nature of elite sport \u2013 there are injuries and then you have to adapt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tom Roebuck replaced the brutally unlucky Feyi-Waboso in the matchday 15 that hammered Wales<\/a> 48-7 at the Allianz Stadium, Twickenham on Saturday.<\/p>\n

An England<\/a> statement also confirmed that Vilikesa Sela and George Furbank<\/a> have been sent for rehabilitation.<\/p>\n

George Kloska of Bristol<\/a> Bears replaces Sela in the forwards, while Bath<\/a> centre Ollie Lawrence<\/a> replaces Furbank in the backs after returning from injury. The aforementioned Roebuck takes Feyi-Waboso\u2019s place in the squad.<\/p>\n

British & Irish Lions<\/a> fly-half Fin Smith is also back in the squad having not been included in the original Six Nations squad due to a calf injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like you\u2019re building momentum, like you\u2019re layering on confidence, like when you find yourself in difficult situations in games, you\u2019re able to deal with them better and when you\u2019re on top in games you can keep your foot on the gas a bit more as well,\u201d said George Ford. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to definitely use it. It\u2019s such a positive thing, why wouldn\u2019t we use it? I think a lot of the time in England we get told to temper it all the time, but let\u2019s use it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel like we\u2019re a good team, we feel like there\u2019s improvement and we\u2019re doing what we can to get as close as we can, but let\u2019s back ourselves and keep going for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to turn up there next Saturday and be fully locked and loaded to go and impose our game on them. That\u2019s the key.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve spoke about a lot \u2013 let\u2019s understand the opposition and potentially what they can bring, but let\u2019s be so good that we just go and impose our game on them all the time and play our game rather than get dragged into something else.\u201d<\/p>\n

The updated 36-man England squad:<\/p>\n

Forwards:
Ollie Chessum (Leicester<\/a> Tigers)
Arthur Clark (Gloucester<\/a> Rugby)
Alex Coles (Northampton<\/a> Saints)
Luke Cowan-Dickie (Sale<\/a> Sharks)
Chandler Cunningham-South (Harlequins)
Tom Curry (Sale Sharks)
Theo Dan (Saracens)
Trevor Davison (Northampton Saints)
Ben Earl (Saracens)
Greg Fisilau (Exeter Chiefs)
Ellis Genge (Bristol Bears)
Jamie George (Saracens)
Joe Heyes (Leicester Tigers)
Maro Itoje (Saracens)
Emmanuel Iyogun (Northampton Saints)
George Kloska (Bristol Bears)
Guy Pepper (Bath Rugby)
Henry Pollock (Northampton Saints)
Bevan Rodd (Sale Sharks)
Sam Underhill (Bath Rugby)<\/p>\n

Backs:
Henry Arundell (Bath Rugby)
Seb Atkinson (Gloucester Rugby)
Elliot Daly (Saracens)
Fraser Dingwall (Northampton Saints)
George Ford (Sale Sharks)
Tommy Freeman (Northampton Saints)
Ollie Lawrence (Bath Rugby)
Alex Mitchell (Northampton Saints)
Cadan Murley (Harlequins)
Tom Roebuck (Sale Sharks)
Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs)
Marcus Smith (Harlequins)
Fin Smith (Northampton Saints)
Ben Spencer (Bath Rugby)
Freddie Steward (Leicester Tigers)
Jack van Poortvliet (Leicester Tigers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England\u2019s 36-player training squad update does not include Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, who will miss the rest of the Guinness…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-467132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467132","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=467132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}