Borthwick backs Arundell to bounce back against Irelandpublished at 11:39 GMT<\/p>\n
11:39 GMT<\/p>\n
England v Ireland (Sat, 14:10 GMT)<\/p>\n
England wing Henry Arundell has been backed to “play super well” in against with Ireland at Twickenham after keeping his place despite a red card last weekend.<\/p>\n
Arundell was sin-binned for not releasing his opponent early on in the match and then received a second yellow for taking out Kyle Steyn in the air.<\/p>\n
The Bath wing received an automatic 20-minute red card that meant his team-mates played with 14 men for a total of 30 minutes.<\/p>\n
Coach Steve Borthwick has opted to keep faith with the exciting wing, who has scored four tries in two games – a hat-trick against Wales and England’s opening try at Murrayfield – and is the top scorer in the Six Nations so far.<\/p>\n
“Saturday [against Scotland] didn’t go the way he wanted it to, the way I wanted it to go for him, and he was bitterly disappointed as we all were. Now we back him to go and play super well this weekend.<\/p>\n
“I want the ball in his hands. Every England supporter will want the ball in his hands in a bit of space this weekend.”<\/p>\n
A disciplinary hearing on Tuesday found that “no further sanction was appropriate”, freeing Arundell to play.<\/p>\n
A statement said: “The player accepted that he had committed the acts of foul play that resulted in the showing of the two yellow cards.<\/p>\n
“In the circumstances (including that the first yellow card had been issued for a ‘technical offence’, and that the second yellow card had been issued for a very different act of foul play), [it was decided that] the sending off of the player had been a sufficient sanction.”<\/p>\n
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Arundell ‘out of his depth’ in England loss to Scotland – Rugby Union Weekly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Borthwick backs Arundell to bounce back against Irelandpublished at 11:39 GMT 11:39 GMT England v Ireland (Sat, 14:10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-434173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434173","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=434173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}