{"id":504877,"date":"2026-03-31T08:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504877\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:45:06","slug":"if-you-dont-embrace-pollock-you-are-absolutely-clueless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504877\/","title":{"rendered":"If you don\u2019t embrace Pollock, you are absolutely clueless"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cGuys, are you mad?\u201d he says. \u201cYou know that every kid that\u2019s playing rugby right now is doing the Pollock celebrations. If you don\u2019t embrace that, you are absolutely clueless. This is exactly what rugby needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

He adds: \u201cThe last thing you want to do is clip his wings and say, \u2018Henry, actually, tone it down, mate.\u2019 No, no. You play with all of the same integrity and fundamentals of what\u2019s built you, but you do it your way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hearn says that England, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and Prem clubs need to \u201cdo the job that I\u2019m going to do for Henry on all these other guys that have loads of potential to do the same\u201d.<\/p>\n

Pointing out that Joe Marler<\/a> had to retire from the sport to become a household name, he adds: \u201cWhen Joe Marler played rugby, I\u2019d never heard of him. Now, if you tell me about rugby, Joe Marler\u2019s probably one of the first things that I\u2019ll tell you. So, that says it all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cGuys, are you mad?\u201d he says. \u201cYou know that every kid that\u2019s playing rugby right now is doing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,7166,29174,98038,79323,141939,23451,217,101,5438,58919,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-504877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-england-rugby-union-team","10":"tag-henry-pollock","11":"tag-joe-marler","12":"tag-northampton-saints","13":"tag-rfu","14":"tag-rugby-union","15":"tag-sport","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-standard","18":"tag-top-story","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504877","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=504877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}