{"id":418352,"date":"2026-02-10T17:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418352\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:08:08","slug":"six-nations-2026-maro-itoje-back-in-england-starting-xv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418352\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Maro Itoje back in England starting XV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Prop star generation are not waiting for anyone&#8217;published at 15:25 GMT<\/p>\n<p>15:25 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-w0w395-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Scotland v England (Sat, 16:40 GMT)<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joe Heyes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/043dd625-dfad-4cf2-b24a-940889d4f154.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"831\" height=\"467\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On his development as a prop: &#8220;Developing as a young player, with Dan Cole, Will Stuart, Kyle Sinckler in the England set-up, it has always been difficult for me to get my foot in the door, but equally these guys have been setting standards and I have been trying to base my game around the good bits of what they have been doing. It has been a long wait, patience and diligence for me, but I have just been sticking at it and every time I got an opportunity, it wasn&#8217;t do or die, but I really wanted to do my best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Traditionally, you might think that tight-heads are at their best at 27,28, but you look at this new generation of England props &#8211; Asher Opoku-Fordjour, Billy Sela and Afolabi Fasogbon &#8211; there is no way they are waiting. If you are that good why wait.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Prop star generation are not waiting for anyone&#8217;published at 15:25 GMT 15:25 GMT Scotland v England (Sat, 16:40&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-418352","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\/418352","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=418352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}