Watch every second of the Six Nations live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nSam Underhill, Guy Pepper and Tom Roebuck make way as Borthwick opts for a number of positional changes in response.<\/p>\n
Pollock lines up at number eight as part of a reshaped back row that sees Ben Earl move to openside and Tom Curry come in at blindside.<\/p>\n
Tommy Freeman moves to the wing in place of Roebuck with Ollie Lawrence making his first start of this season’s Six Nations in the number 13 jersey.<\/p>\n
All of Pollock’s previous seven caps came as a replacement, but he is handed his chance to impress after England’s impressive run over the past year came off the rails at Murrayfield.<\/p>\n
Henry Arundell retains his place on the left wing after escaping a suspension for his two yellow cards against Scotland, which led to a 20-minute red card.<\/p>\n
Captain Maro Itoje will win his 100th cap, becoming only the ninth man to reach that milestone for England.<\/p>\n
“To reach 100 caps for England is a remarkable achievement and speaks volumes about Maro’s consistency and professionalism over many years,” said Borthwick.<\/p>\n
“We’re all incredibly proud of what he has achieved, and I know it will be a special day for him and his family.”<\/p>\n
Borhwick has also changed his back options off the bench as Jack van Poortvliet and Marcus Smith replace Ben Spencer and Fin Smith.<\/p>\n
England (15-1): Freddie Steward; Tommy Freeman, Ollie Lawrence, Fraser Dingwall, Henry Arundell; George Ford, Alex Mitchell; Henry Pollick, Ben Earl, Tom Curry; Ollie Chessum, Maro Itoje (capt); Joe Heyes, Luke Cowan-Dickie, Ellis Genge<\/p>\n
Replacements: Jamie George, Bevan Rodd, Trevor Davison, Alex Coles, Guy Pepper, Sam Underhill, Jack van Poortvliet, Marcus Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henry Pollock has been handed his first England start after Steve Borthwick made three changes for Ireland’s Six…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,1208,26779,760,103300,85],"class_list":["post-486689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-england","tag-ireland","tag-rugby","tag-six-nations","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486689","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=486689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}