{"id":485984,"date":"2026-03-20T14:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485984\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:45:09","slug":"pat-lam-urges-england-to-make-bold-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485984\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Lam urges England to make bold decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pat Lam believes that one day England<\/a> boss Steve Borthwick<\/a> could field an entire front-row made up of his current Bristol<\/a> Bears players.<\/p>\n

Lam made the prediction after George Kloska<\/a>, 26, was called into the England training squad ahead of their Calcutta Cup defeat at the hands of Scotland<\/a> at Murrayfield during the Six Nations.<\/p>\n

He believes that it is realistic to see Kloska at tighthead, Ellis Genge<\/a> at loose head and Gabriel Oghre<\/a>, who has scored 13 tries in 16 games this season, in the middle of them at hooker.<\/p>\n

Oghre, 27, came off the bench to score against the USA<\/a> in the summer and with Jamie George<\/a> set to retire at the end of next season, and Curtis Langdon<\/a> suffering injury problems, another call-up could be on the cards.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeorge Kloska, he\u2019s a young up-and-coming prop, brings a lot around, around the field, not just set pieces. He played really well against Ireland<\/a> A.<\/p>\n

Fixture<\/p>\n

Gallagher Premiership<\/p>\n

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Leicester <\/p>\n

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Bristol <\/p>\n

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\u201cYou know, certainly, when you think of it. In Genge, Oghre and Kloska, we\u2019ve got three really good front-rowers, and I believe one day they\u2019ll have the opportunity to play together. I think they\u2019re both good enough,\u201d said Lam.<\/p>\n

While he might not get capped by England, Lam says that he was delighted that Max Lahiff<\/a> was asked to join in the England camp between rounds three and four of the Championship.<\/p>\n

Lam says that Lahiff, 36, who can play on either side of the front-row, needed to be convinced that his call from Borthwick wasn\u2019t a team-mate playing a practical joke.<\/p>\n

\u201cMax was buzzing. You know, fair play, when Steve asked me if it was okay for Max to join. I laughed because Max was going to be involved with us against Sale<\/a> in the PREM Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I said, yes, you can\u2019t deny him because I knew it would be just a highlight for him. When I rang him after Steve rang, and he was buzzing, but couldn\u2019t believe it and thought it was a joke,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pat Lam believes that one day England boss Steve Borthwick could field an entire front-row made up of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-485984","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\/485984","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=485984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}