Hannah Botterman will not compete in this year’s Women’s Six Nations.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n
England’s squad depth continues to be tested after front rows Hannah Botterman and May Campbell became the latest players to be ruled out of the Women’s Six Nations.<\/p>\n
Botterman needs a second operation on the ankle injury suffered on Bristol duty in December and Campbell is to undergo surgery on a knee problem next week.<\/p>\n
In addition, England have lost a third forward to the treatment room after it was revealed that number eight Alex Matthews will miss Saturday’s clash with Scotland with a shoulder issue incurred in the 33-12 victory over Ireland that opened the tournament.<\/p>\n
– England 33-12 Ireland: World champions off to flying start in Women’s Six Nations in front of record crowd<\/a> Bristol Bears second row Delaney Burns and Saracens prop Liz Crake have been called into John Mitchell’s squad as cover.<\/p>\n The setbacks come just three days after England announced that lock Morwenna Talling and scrum-half Natasha Hunt would miss the rest of the Six Nations with leg injuries.<\/p>\n The Red Roses were already missing pregnant trio Zoe Stratford, Abbie Ward and Rosie Galligan — each of them second rows, although Stratford also plays flanker — for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hannah Botterman will not compete in this year’s Women’s Six Nations.\u00a0Getty England’s squad depth continues to be tested…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-610752","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\/610752","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=610752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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