{"id":486196,"date":"2026-02-17T17:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486196\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:47:16","slug":"england-six-nations-team-announcement-live-henry-pollock-and-henry-arundell-to-start-against-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486196\/","title":{"rendered":"England Six Nations team announcement LIVE: Henry Pollock and Henry Arundell to start against Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I have stayed in touch with James Ryan&#8217;published at 16:30 GMT<\/p>\n<p>16:30 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-w0w395-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">England v Ireland (Sat, 14:10 GMT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tom Curry will be coming up against some of his British and Irish Lions team-mates from last summer&#8217;s tour of Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Curry started all three Tests in the back row alongside Ireland&#8217;s Tadhg Beirne and Jack Conan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have stayed in touch with James Ryan, we talk a bit, and then Mack Hansen and I only commute by Instagram reels. We have had a few interesting chats,&#8221; he told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;James and I chat about life but mostly rugby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will also be reunited with Ireland head coach Andy Farrell, who was in charge of the Lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Faz is good. You can see where [former England captain] Owen [Farrell] gets it from. They are very concise with their words,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Before the first Test in Brisbane he got Tadhg Beirne, Jack Conan and I together and made us aware he picked us as we perform in big games on the big stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is always an exciting fixture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tom Curry and Jack Conan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7c16fbaa-c45d-434f-9814-1ce22ada10de.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;I have stayed in touch with James Ryan&#8217;published at 16:30 GMT 16:30 GMT England v Ireland (Sat, 14:10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-486196","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\/486196","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=486196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}