{"id":311293,"date":"2026-02-22T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311293\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T10:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:39:07","slug":"genge-apologises-to-england-fans-over-ireland-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311293\/","title":{"rendered":"Genge apologises to England fans over Ireland display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ellis Genge apologised to England fans for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/six-nations\/2026\/0221\/1559673-born-again-ireland-dismantle-england-in-record-victory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">42-21 defeat<\/a> by Ireland that has ended their Guinness Six Nations title aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>Genge admits his team are unable to explain how a week after they were outfought by Scotland at Murrayfield, they repeated many of the same mistakes to allow Ireland to run riot at Allianz Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you do?&#8221; Genge told BBC Sport. &#8220;Two weeks in a row conceding so many points in the first 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no mountain to climb after that and everyone has to take a look at themselves. No one knows what the answer is right now or we would have sorted it out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It opened up scar tissue from last week. We have to be better at managing that period and stop turning the ball over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s brutal, professional sport because if you get five per cent wrong it\u2019s gone. We probably believed the hype from the first week too much. We can\u2019t let the noise in now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sorry to the fans, you have been outstanding, we have let everyone down, apologies for that but I promise we will make it better. We are going to go away and work as hard as we can to go away and rectify things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the end of their title bid, Genge said: &#8220;I\u2019m gutted, I wanted to win. It\u2019s tough but that is what professional sport is and she\u2019s a nasty mistress sometimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ellis Genge apologised to England fans for the 42-21 defeat by Ireland that has ended their Guinness Six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-311293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311293","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=311293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}