{"id":307032,"date":"2025-12-09T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/307032\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:59:07","slug":"england-star-george-ford-claims-autumn-nations-series-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/307032\/","title":{"rendered":"England star George Ford claims Autumn Nations Series award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England fly-half George Ford has been named the Northern Hemisphere Player of the Series, following England\u2019s unbeaten Autumn Nations Series campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Sale Sharks ace took a starring role in three of England\u2019s victories over the Wallabies, the All Blacks and Argentina, namely scooping the Player of the Match gong against New Zealand too.<\/p>\n<p>Ford beat fellow England man Ben Earl, France\u2019s Louis Bielle-Biarrey and Italy star Tomasso Menoncello to the gong, coming out top in a public vote.<\/p>\n<p>George Ford named Autumn Nations Series Northern Hemisphere Player of the Series<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/team\/england\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> fly-half dominated polling on his way to the award, taking home over 30% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd29 The votes are in! The winner of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Quilter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Quilter<\/a> Player of the Series is \ud83e\udd41\ud83e\udd41\ud83e\udd41<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnglandRugby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@EnglandRugby<\/a>\u2018s George Ford! \ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/QCNS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#QCNS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/QuilterNS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#QuilterNS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xOS9TElqsa\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xOS9TElqsa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Quilter Nations Series (@QuilterNations) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QuilterNations\/status\/1998090203244925076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/tag\/george-ford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ford<\/a> notched 30 points across his three outings, a tally which included six conversions, three trademark drop-goals and three penalties, while also posting a 100% passing success rate \u2013 the only fly-half to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"px-3 xs:px-4 mt-3 mb-2 font-semibold leading-snug text-base text-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/news\/mike-tindall-and-bismarck-du-plessis-pick-their-2025-world-xv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Six Springboks selected in Mike Tindall and Bismarck du Plessis\u2019s 2025 World XV<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"px-3 xs:px-4 mt-3 mb-2 font-semibold leading-snug text-base text-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/news\/the-part-of-the-eben-etzebeth-ban-that-frustrates-england-legend-who-makes-rassie-erasmus-prediction-and-issues-help-us-understand-plea-to-south-african-fans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018part\u2019 of the Eben Etzebeth ban that frustrates England legend, who makes Rassie Erasmus prediction and issues \u2018help us understand\u2019 plea to South African fans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This award also caps off a strong year for the Sale Sharks man, for both club and country. After losing his spot in last year\u2019s Autumn Nations Series, and only being limited to a brief cameo appearance off the bench against Wales in the Six Nations, Ford once again established himself as England\u2019s starting fly-half on the tour of the Americas, playing a crucial role in the series whitewash over Los Pumas and the standalone Test against the USA.<\/p>\n<p>He then hit the ground running in the early days of the new PREM season, before being selected ahead of British and Irish Lions tourists Fin and Marcus Smith as England\u2019s number 10.<\/p>\n<p>His selection over back-rower Earl is interesting, though, with the Saracens man being named England Player of the Series in a fan vote last week, beating out Ford, Immanuel Feyi-Waboso and Alex Mitchell with 38% of the total vote.<\/p>\n<p>Your Player of the Series is Ben Earl \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>Enter now for the chance to win his signed shirt \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 England Rugby (@EnglandRugby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnglandRugby\/status\/1995528987708108836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/news\/matt-williams-world-rugby-vindicated-as-eben-etzebeths-dog-act-ends-ridiculous-arguments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Williams: World Rugby vindicated as Eben Etzebeth\u2019s \u2018dog act\u2019 ends \u2018ridiculous arguments\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England fly-half George Ford has been named the Northern Hemisphere Player of the Series, following England\u2019s unbeaten Autumn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[11482,309,30783,348,3482,50,5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-307032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-ben-earl","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-george-ford","11":"tag-home-page","12":"tag-internationals","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-rugby","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307032","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=307032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}