{"id":339995,"date":"2025-12-28T22:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T22:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339995\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T22:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T22:49:05","slug":"irrepressible-five-players-steve-borthwick-must-call-up-for-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339995\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Irrepressible&#8221; &#8211; Five players Steve Borthwick must call up for England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gallagher Prem delivered another blockbuster weekend. <\/p>\n<p>From Bristol\u2019s bruising power to Northampton\u2019s free-flowing brilliance, several players didn\u2019t just play well \u2014 they\u00a0demanded\u00a0attention. Steve Borthwick will have been watching closely\u2026 and these five made it impossible to look away.<\/p>\n<p>Join the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3s8fWrj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RUCK\u2019s WhatsApp community here<\/a>\u00a0and get the latest news sent straight to your messages.<\/p>\n<p>1. Gabriel Oghre (Bristol Bears) \u2014 Bristol 36, Newcastle Red Bulls 27<\/p>\n<p>If impact subs were an art form, Oghre would be hanging in the Tate.<\/p>\n<p>Thrown on in the second half against Newcastle, the Bristol hooker wasted no time reminding everyone what he does best \u2014 bully defences and finish from close range. His 60th-minute try came straight off the back of a thundering maul he helped create, the kind of score that screams international readiness.<\/p>\n<p>Powerful, direct and utterly reliable at set-piece time, Oghre is making a compelling case to be more than just Premiership depth.<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUES ON PAGE TWO<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gallagher Prem delivered another blockbuster weekend. From Bristol\u2019s bruising power to Northampton\u2019s free-flowing brilliance, several players didn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-339995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339995","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=339995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}