{"id":486164,"date":"2026-03-20T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486164\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:00:17","slug":"the-prem-six-nations-internationals-start-as-league-returns-from-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486164\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prem: Six Nations internationals start as league returns from break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Captain Ollie Chessum is among a host of internationals to immediately return to Leicester Tigers duties in the Prem a week after the Six Nations came to an end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chessum, Joe Heyes, and Jack van Poortvliet, who is named on the bench for Tigers, all featured in England&#8217;s defeat by France, while Olly Cracknell and Nicky Smith were in action for Wales against Italy just a week ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The availability of the internationals means there are several changes made to the Tigers side that claimed the Prem Cup trophy on Sunday with victory against Exeter Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Bristol have given England&#8217;s Ellis Genge, Wales star Louis Rees-Zammit and Scotland&#8217;s Tom Jordan a week off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Winger Gabriel Ibitoye, however, will make his first Prem start since the club&#8217;s opening round win against Tigers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicester Tigers: Steward, Hamer-Webb, Wand, Bailey, Hassell-Collins, Searle, Whiteley; Smith, Blamire, Heyes, Liebenberg, Chessum, Moro, Watson, Cracknell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Replacements: Theobald-Thomas, Van der Flier, Hurd, Thomas, Palmer, Van Poortvliet, O&#8217;Connor, Perese.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol Bears: Heward, Ravouvou, Janse van Rensburg, Williams, Ibitoye, Worsley, Randall; Woolmore, Oghre, Kloska, Dun, Owen, Luatua, Harding, Mata.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Replacements: Gwilliam, Lahiff, Chawatama, Taylor, Grondona, Marmion, Moroni, Boshoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain Ollie Chessum is among a host of internationals to immediately return to Leicester Tigers duties in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-486164","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\/486164","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=486164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}