{"id":440582,"date":"2026-02-23T03:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/440582\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T03:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:03:07","slug":"criminally-bad-five-players-who-flopped-in-todays-six-nations-action-page-3-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/440582\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Criminally bad&#8221; &#8211; Five players who flopped in today&#8217;s Six Nations action\u00a0 &#8211; Page 3 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#4. Duhan van der Merwe (Scotland)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/news\/scotland-player-ratings-vs-wales-2026-guinness-mens-six-nations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby Pass 5.5\/10: <\/a>\u201cBack in the side and into the action early, but starved of quality ball for long periods. Made one trademark surge on 50 minutes as the red sea parted. Otherwise peripheral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>#5. Henry Arundell (England)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/article-15577123\/England-21-42-Ireland-PLAYER-RATINGS.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4\/10<\/a>: \u201cA hat-trick against Wales and sent off against Scotland. Nothing as dramatic here but also nothing to write home about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruck.co.uk\/england-player-ratings-vs-ireland-2026-six-nations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RUCK 2\/10<\/a>: \u201cPoor last week and poor today. Not good enough under the high ball for the way England play, and was caught out on so many occasions. Got into a few decent positions on the ball and failed to make an impact with any of them. Surely someone else gets a go in Rome in two weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/rugby-union\/2026\/02\/21\/england-v-ireland-player-ratings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Telegraph 3\/10<\/a>: \u201cLooked completely devoid of confidence in attack refusing to back his pace out wide and was a liability in defence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/news\/england-player-ratings-v-ireland-dismal-day-for-steve-borthwicks-side-as-duo-that-fall-victim-to-the-hook-reflect-defeat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Planet Rugby 5\/10:<\/a> \u201cSome very nice flashes ball-in-hand, but couldn\u2019t quite get the breakaway his efforts warranted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/news\/england-player-ratings-vs-ireland-2026-guinness-mens-six-nations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby Pass 3\/10: <\/a>\u201cDidn\u2019t enjoy a huge amount of success in the air, specifically chasing kicks, but looked England\u2019s most threatening carrier. Just nowhere near enough to make a discernible impact, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EDITORS PICKS:<\/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":"#4. Duhan van der Merwe (Scotland) Rugby Pass 5.5\/10: \u201cBack in the side and into the action early,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-440582","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\/440582","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=440582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}