{"id":257606,"date":"2025-11-11T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/257606\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:38:08","slug":"three-all-black-xv-players-join-scott-robertsons-squad-for-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/257606\/","title":{"rendered":"Three All Black XV players join Scott Robertson’s squad for England"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The All Blacks<\/a> are now two from two on their end-of-year Grand Slam tour after two victories against Ireland<\/a> in Chicago and Scotland<\/a> in Edinburgh, respectively.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not all rosy for Scott Robertson\u2019s side, with the All Blacks today announcing two Chiefs<\/a> loose forwards have headed home to New Zealand, and won\u2019t play any further part in the tour.<\/p>\n

Samipeni Finau has headed home due to illness in the family, and Luke Jacobson<\/a> will return to New Zealand<\/a> after a head knock in the All Blacks XV<\/a> game against England<\/a> A last weekend.<\/p>\n

With that unfortunate news for those two players comes an opportunity for others to impress Robertson and co, with only two games remaining in the 2025 international season.<\/p>\n

Robertson and his coaching staff have drafted in three players as training cover for the game this weekend against England, all from Jamie Joseph\u2019s All Blacks XV squad.<\/p>\n

Crusaders<\/a> loose-forward Christian Lio-Willie<\/a> will come in as loose-forward cover for the week, while Josh Beehre<\/a> will also join the squad in London, like he did last week before the Scotland game at Murrayfield.<\/p>\n

Exciting young Highlanders<\/a> winger Caleb Tangitau<\/a> is the last of the three to be drafted into the squad this week, after impressing in the first two games on tour with Joseph\u2019s side.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old has already scored a couple of tries for the All Blacks XV this season, after having a superb try-scoring season with the Dunedin-based franchise in 2025.<\/p>\n

Robertson\u2019s side is likely to regain the services of their captain Scott Barrett<\/a>, who missed last weekend\u2019s encounter against Scotland with a leg laceration, but is also without Blues<\/a> winger Caleb Clarke<\/a>, who failed an HIA at Murrayfield and is on a 12-day stand-down period.<\/p>\n

Barrett\u2019s return could see in-form Chiefs lock Josh Lord<\/a> return to the bench, while Clarke\u2019s absence gives Robertson the chance to make some positional shifts in the backline, or move either Sevu Reece<\/a> or Rieko Ioane<\/a> in as specialist wingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All Blacks are now two from two on their end-of-year Grand Slam tour after two victories against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-257606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257606","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=257606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}