{"id":253750,"date":"2025-11-09T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253750\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:23:09","slug":"saracens-star-could-be-pitched-straight-in-to-face-mighty-all-blacks-on-saturday-despite-not-playing-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253750\/","title":{"rendered":"Saracens star could be pitched straight in to face mighty All Blacks on Saturday, despite not playing this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-179\/alex-bywater.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ALEX BYWATER, RUGBY WRITER<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  14:19 EST, 9 November 2025   |  Updated:  15:43 EST, 9 November 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Elliot Daly has returned to England&#8217;s squad, raising the possibility he will make his first appearance of the season following a broken arm against New Zealand on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Daly&#8217;s latest injury blow came on the summer&#8217;s Lions tour of Australia and meant he was ruled out of the successful Test series win over the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/australia-rugby\/index.html\" id=\"mol-e072c3c0-bda0-11f0-914b-c3e85d866e52\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wallabies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He hasn&#8217;t played at all in the 2025\/26 campaign to date for his club Saracens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But he is still under consideration to come straight back in from the cold and start England&#8217;s acid autumn test with the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/all-blacks\/index.html\" id=\"mol-e070c7f0-bda0-11f0-914b-c3e85d866e52\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All Blacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Daly will add to head coach <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/steve-borthwick\/index.html\" id=\"mol-e0769450-bda0-11f0-914b-c3e85d866e52\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Steve Borthwick<\/a>&#8216;s full-back resources with the national side now on a nine-match winning streak after victories over Australia and Fiji this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Marcus Smith wore the No 15 shirt against Fiji with Freddie Steward injured.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-110d17a1e3865747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/103729967-15274637-image-a-82_1762715543879.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Elliot Daly has returned to the England squad and could feature against the All Blacks\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Elliot Daly has returned to the England squad and could feature against the All Blacks<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But Steward is back fit for New Zealand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Wings Tom Roebuck \u2013 who also missed Fiji \u2013 and Immanuel Feyi-Waboso are both in the squad to face the southern hemisphere giants too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Feyi-Waboso was left battered and bruised by the 38-18 victory over the Fijians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Hopefully, Elliot will be available for selection this week. He&#8217;s got a meeting with a specialist over the weekend,&#8217; Borthwick said.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Saracens star could be pitched straight in to face mighty All Blacks on Saturday, despite not playing this season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ALEX BYWATER, RUGBY WRITER Published: 14:19 EST, 9 November 2025 | Updated: 15:43 EST, 9 November 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[428,97,309,10363,620,5903,23783,217,101,5831,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-253750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-australia","tag-dailymail","tag-england","tag-fiji","tag-new-zealand","tag-rugby","tag-rugbyunion","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-steve-borthwick","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}