{"id":309907,"date":"2026-02-21T13:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309907\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:41:08","slug":"england-v-ireland-tough-twickenham-task-ahead-for-andy-farrells-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309907\/","title":{"rendered":"England v Ireland: Tough Twickenham task ahead for Andy Farrell\u2019s men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team newsThe Ireland coach has restored Jamison Gibson-Park, Tadhg Furlong, Tadhg Beirne and Josh van der Flier to the team that beat Italy, with Cormac Izuchukwu and Edwin Edogbo missing out on the matchday 23.<\/p>\n<p>Crowley impressed off the bench last week and is backed for his first start since the defeat to New Zealand in Chicago in November.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Pollock will make his first England start in Saturday&#8217;s Guinness Six Nations clash with Ireland as one of three changes in personnel to the side defeated by Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>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, with Sam Underhill and Guy Pepper dropping to the bench.<\/p>\n<p>England<br \/>Freddie Steward, Tommy Freeman, Ollie Lawrence, Fraser Dingwall, Henry Arundell, George Ford, Alex Mitchell, Ellis Genge, Luke Cowan-Dickie, Joe Heyes, Maro Itoje, Ollie Chessum, Tom Curry, Ben Earl, Henry Pollock<br \/>Replacements: Jamie George, Bevan Rodd, Trevor Davison, Alex Coles, Guy Pepper, Sam Underhill, Jack van Poortvliet, Marcus Smith<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Ireland: Jamie Osborne; Rob Baloucoune, Garry Ringrose, Stuart McCloskey, James Lowe; Jack Crowley, Jamison Gibson-Park; Jeremy Loughman, Dan Sheehan, Tadhg Furlong, James Ryan, Joe McCarthy, Tadhg Beirne, Josh van der Flier, Caelan Doris (capt).<br \/>Replacements: R\u00f3nan Kelleher, Tom O&#8217;Toole, Finlay Bealham, Jack Conan, Nick Timoney, Craig Casey, Ciar\u00e1n Frawley, Tommy O&#8217;Brien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team newsThe Ireland coach has restored Jamison Gibson-Park, Tadhg Furlong, Tadhg Beirne and Josh van der Flier to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,4174,43],"class_list":["post-309907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}