{"id":25139,"date":"2026-01-28T06:07:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/fin-baxter-england-prop-ruled-out-of-six-nations\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T06:07:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:07:50","slug":"fin-baxter-england-prop-ruled-out-of-six-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/fin-baxter-england-prop-ruled-out-of-six-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Fin Baxter: England prop ruled out of Six Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">England&#8217;s prop problems continue to mount in the run-up to the Six Nations with Harlequins&#8217; Fin Baxter ruled out of the tournament.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old has featured in England&#8217;s last 18 matches, but surgery on a foot injury has ended his hopes of continuing that run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Baxter was named among five England players rehabilitating alongside the main 36-strong Six Nations squad on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Ellis Genge backed up by Bevan Rodd and Emmanuel Iyogun on the loose-head side, there will be no replacement called up for Baxter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Rodd has made only two appearances for England since the 2023 Rugby World Cup, while Iyogun is yet to win his first cap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England take on Wales at home in their opening match of the tournament on 7 February.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cddgpz1l5nlo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England&#8217;s prop problems continue to mount in the run-up to the Six Nations with Harlequins&#8217; Fin Baxter ruled out of the tournament. The 23-year-old has featured in England&#8217;s last 18 matches, but surgery on a foot injury has ended his hopes of continuing that run. Baxter was named among five England players rehabilitating alongside the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25141,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139\/revisions\/25141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}