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Lions Turn to Young Star Pollock at No. 8
June 28, 2025
|The Straits Times
Henry Pollock's rise in the rugby world has been nothing short of meteoric and, on June 28, he gets a chance to make another mighty leap in a red British and Irish Lions No. 8 shirt against Western Force in Perth.
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The explosive 20-year-old has gone from England Under-20s representative, to full international and then a Lion in little more than five months and made his debut for the tourists in the loss to Argentina in Dublin last week.
While the No. 8 is often used as a strong, battering ram, the 1.88m, 105kg Pollock has been given licence by Lions coach Andy Farrell to make it his own.
"He knows what we want from our eights, but he's got to find his own version of that, as that's what we want, him being himself," Farrell said after naming his team on June 26. "His point of difference is his ability to see things quickly and act upon that and his line running, for example, is pretty good."
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