{"id":408300,"date":"2026-02-05T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408300\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:00:12","slug":"noah-caluori-returns-to-start-for-england-u20-against-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408300\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Caluori returns to start for England U20 against Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Saracens<\/a> wing Noah Caluori<\/a> will start for England<\/a> U20 against Wales<\/a> U20 on Friday at Franklin\u2019s Gardens in round one of the U20 Six Nations.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old has four U20 caps to his name and was part of England\u2019s campaign in the World Rugby U20 Championship<\/a> last year. Since then, he has made his Gallagher PREM debut for Saracens, been called into Steve Borthwick\u2019s England squad, represented England A<\/a> and has scored the most tries in the league so far this season with 12.<\/p>\n

Despite being tipped to make the senior England squad this Six Nations, Caluori has returned to Andy Titterrell\u2019s team which has a blend of familiar faces and new blood.<\/p>\n

There are several new names in the starting XV for the first match of 2026, including full-back James Pater<\/a>, fly-half Luke Davidson<\/a>, hooker Jimmy Staples<\/a>, locks Elliot Williams<\/a> and Patrick Hogg<\/a> and openside flanker George Marsh. Every player on the bench except Seb Kelly<\/a> will be making their debuts should they come on.<\/p>\n

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England U20 <\/p>\n

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Wales U20 <\/p>\n

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\u201cFrom the first whistle against Wales, we want to ignite our campaign and hunt together with real purpose and clarity,\u201d Titterrell said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe connections within this group, the way they support one another and their commitment to being relentless will define how we play. We want to show positive intent in a very difficult opening fixture in Northampton.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the players take true ownership of their roles and embrace the enjoyment that comes from competing for each other, we\u2019ll be in a strong place to start the tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n

England U20<\/a> XV
15. James Pater<\/a> (Northampton<\/a> Saints)
14. Noah Caluori (Saracens)
13. Nick Lilley<\/a> (Exeter Chiefs)
12. Will Knight<\/a> (Gloucester<\/a> Rugby)
11. George Pearson<\/a> (Leicester<\/a> Tigers)
10. Luke Davidson<\/a> (Saracens)
9. Lucas Friday<\/a> (Harlequins)
1. Oliver Sola (Northampton Saints)
2. Jimmy Staples<\/a> (Sale<\/a> Sharks)
3. Ollie Streeter<\/a> (Harlequins)
4. Elliot Williams
5. Patrick Hogg (Sale Sharks)
6. Aiden Ainsworth-Cave
7. George Marsh<\/a> (Leicester Tigers)
8. Connor Treacy (c) (Bath<\/a> Rugby)<\/p>\n

Replacements
16. Kealan Freeman-Price(Gloucester Rugby)
17. Oliver Spencer<\/a> (Sale Sharks)
18. Sonny Tonga\u2019uiha<\/a> (Northampton Saints)
19. Freddie Ogden-Metherell
20. Seb Kelly (Sale Sharks)
21. Asa Stewart-Harris<\/a> (Saracens)
22. Sam Winters<\/a> (Bath Rugby)
23. Victor Worsnip<\/a> (Bristol<\/a> Bears)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saracens wing Noah Caluori will start for England U20 against Wales U20 on Friday at Franklin\u2019s Gardens in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-408300","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\/408300","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=408300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}