{"id":389063,"date":"2026-01-25T03:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/389063\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T03:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:35:10","slug":"geoff-parling-issues-update-as-england-star-is-sent-for-scan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/389063\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Parling issues update as England star is sent for scan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leicester<\/a> coach Geoff Parling<\/a> played down fears Jack van Poortvliet\u2019s latest injury concern could harm his chances of wearing the England<\/a> number nine jersey in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

Scrum-half van Poortvliet \u2013 named in Steve Borthwick\u2019s training squad for this week\u2019s build-up to the Six Nations \u2013 hobbled out of the action against Harlequins<\/a> 10 minutes from time.<\/p>\n

Van Poortvliet \u2013 who missed the Autumn internationals with a shoulder injury and has had a history of heartbreaking set-backs in his career at crucial times \u2013 had played a starring role including scoring one of his side\u2019s tries in a 34-7 bonus-point win over Harlequins at Twickenham Stoop.<\/p>\n

However, Tigers boss Parling said: \u2018Hoping it\u2019s just a dead leg. He\u2019s had some sort of knock to his leg, he\u2019s going to get a scaned now to have a look but hopefully not too serious.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was excellent today. He\u2019s had some injuries which have not helped him at certain times. His speed of delivery is good and he\u2019s a top-notch number nine. He showed what he can do with that try too.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTwo other guys in Cameron Henderson<\/a> and Tommy Reffell<\/a>, who haven\u2019t been picked for the Six Nations<\/a> training squads, were also outstanding.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t say it during the week but 12 of our lads had E. coli when we got back from South Africa. Four of our staff did.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo. when we were training on Wednesday, I didn\u2019t let anybody of the 42 traveling staff, including myself, enter the training building on Wednesday, because didn\u2019t want to affect people.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo obviously, again and again, this group at the moment is proven themselves to be adaptable, making no excuses, and I\u2019m really proud of that performance.<\/p>\n

Tigers lock Henderson added: \u201cWe came down here to put in one of our best performances of the season, and we are very happy with the way things went.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur mentality was right on it from the start. Quins can be dangerous so we needed to win the early phases and get on top of them and not let go.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe evolution of our game has really come on nicely under Geoff. We are playing some strong rugby, laying the foundations and then attacking decisively. We now have a break from the Premiership, so this is a good way to go off and prepare for the next game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tigers moved up to fourth in the table while Quins, who enjoyed recent success in Europe, suffered their fifth successive Premiership loss.<\/p>\n

Some of the home crowd left before the end of a one-sided game out of frustration but head coach Jason Gilmore said: \u201cOur fans have been brilliant. We had a sold-out Stoop today but I can understand their feelings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are loyal to the team and club. We need to give them something to enjoy on the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not skillset, it\u2019s mindset. We went on the back foot pretty quickly and couldn\u2019t turn things around.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must see to what steps we need to put in place to regain that mindset. We need to build a squad which can hold out under fire.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicester coach Geoff Parling played down fears Jack van Poortvliet\u2019s latest injury concern could harm his chances of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-389063","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\/389063","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=389063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}