{"id":27128,"date":"2024-02-22T19:34:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T16:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/27128\/england-make-five-changes-for\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T19:34:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T16:34:21","slug":"england-make-five-changes-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=27128","title":{"rendered":"England make five changes for Scotland Six Nations showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England make five changes for Scotland Six Nations showdown\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Tom Hamilton, lead writer<span class=\"timestamp \">February 22, 2024, 3:06 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\">Close<\/p>\n<ul>\u2022 Joined ESPN in 2011<br \/>\u2022 Covered two Olympic Games, two <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/rugby\/\"   title=\"Rugby\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Rugby<\/a> World Cups and two British and Irish Lions tours<br \/>\u2022 Former rugby editor, then senior editor in 2018<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>England made five changes for Saturday&#39;s Calcutta Cup clash against Scotland at Murrayfield in the Six Nations with Ollie Lawrence and George Furbank both starting.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Borthwick made five changes from the side that beat Wales 16-14 with Ellis Genge, Dan Cole, Danny Care, Lawrence and Furbank all named in the starting fifteen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Team news from Six Nations <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/week\/\"   title=\"week\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">week<\/a> three: Costelow back at fly-half for Wales<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Genge and Cole replace Joe Marler and Will Stuart respectively in the front row while Care replaces the injured Alex Mitchell at scrumhalf.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence returns from a period of absence to <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/start\/\"   title=\"start\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">start<\/a> at inside center in place of Fraser Dingwall while Furbank replaces Freddie Steward at full-back.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Ollie Lawrence missed the first two rounds of this year&#39;s Six Nations with a hip injury. <cite>Photo by David Rogers\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Steward is a selection call-up and is not named among the replacements which include George Martin and Ben Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>England are looking to make it three from three in the Six Nations after wins over Italy and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased with the start to our Guinness Six Nations campaign but know a tough test awaits us in Edinburgh against an in-form Scotland team,\u201d Borthwick said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe atmosphere is always special for any Calcutta Cup match and I am sure this weekend&#39;s match at Murrayfield will be no different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis group of players is looking forward to Saturday\u2019s challenge and creating some very special memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>England:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George Furbank, Tommy Freeman, Henry Slade, Ollie Lawrence, Elliot Daly, George Ford, Danny Care;  Ellis Genge, Jamie George, Dan Cole, Maro Itoje, Ollie Chessum, Ethan Roots, Sam Underhill, Ben Earl<\/p>\n<p><strong>Substitutes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Theo Dan, Joe Marler, Will Stuart, George Martin, Chandler Cunningham-South, Ben Spencer, Fin Smith, Immanuel Feyi-Waboso<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England make five changes for Scotland Six Nations showdown\u060c Tom Hamilton, lead writerFebruary 22, 2024, 3:06 p.m. Close \u2022 Joined ESPN in 2011\u2022 Covered two Olympic Games, two Rugby World Cups and two British and Irish Lions tours\u2022 Former rugby editor, then senior editor in 2018 England made five changes for Saturday&#39;s Calcutta Cup clash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[666,3898,338,6880],"class_list":["post-27128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-england","tag-nations","tag-scotland","tag-showdown"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27130,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27128\/revisions\/27130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}