{"id":18804,"date":"2018-02-06T16:20:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T16:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=18804"},"modified":"2018-02-09T11:45:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T11:45:29","slug":"six-nations-wales-start-unchanged-against-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/six-nations-wales-start-unchanged-against-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations: Wales start unchanged against England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wales have named an unchanged starting 15 for their second-round Six Nations rugby union clash against England on Saturday.\u00a0<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After Wales\u2019s thrilling 34-7 win over Scotland, head coach Warren Gatland decided to stay with the same starting line-up despite British and Irish Lion wing George North being available for selection.<\/p>\n<p>North is named on the replacements bench after four weeks out with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Adams has retained his position on the wing and gains his second cap.<\/p>\n<p>Utility back Liam Williams has not been passed fit, but Gatland is confident the Saracens player will be available for the Ireland game on 24 February.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if selection was tough, Gatland said:&#8221;No, it wasn&#8217;t a tough decision, we felt the starting 15 deserved another chance&#8221;. The New Zealander, who has a 50% win ratio against England, said he was confident of getting a win at if his team &#8220;front up and take the game to England from the start&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Wales travel to Twickenham having failed to beat them in their previous five meetings in the Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Wales pushed England all the way in the 2017 encounter at the Principality Stadium, but lost 16-21 after Elliot Daly&#8217;s length-of-the-field try in the dying minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Many have expected this week&#8217;s build-up to include mind games from Gatland and his opposite number Eddie Jones, but the Wales coach was complimentary of England and called them &#8220;great side&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>England are expected to name their line-up on Thursday, and they will have to make changes to their team after scrum-half Ben Youngs was ruled out for the tournament following a knee injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales have named an unchanged starting 15 for their second-round Six Nations rugby union clash against England on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,11],"tags":[533,175,464],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18804"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18896,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18804\/revisions\/18896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}