{"id":19352,"date":"2026-02-06T12:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=19352"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T12:53:37","slug":"six-nations-2026-england-lose-immanuel-feyi-waboso-to-injury-for-wales-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=19352","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: England lose Immanuel Feyi-Waboso to injury for Wales opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harrison says Roebuck is not being rushed back into action, and he is confident the switch will not adversely affect England&#8217;s prospects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In an ideal world we&#8217;d have given him an extra week, but the world isn&#8217;t ideal as we know,&#8221; Harrison said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We do a really good job of &#8216;what ifs&#8217; and what might happen and combinations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Does it disrupt some plans? Yes it does, because it&#8217;s changing a player. But we&#8217;ve done everything we can to make sure the next player is ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For Feyi-Waboso, of Exeter Chiefs, it is the second time injury has affected his Six Nations hopes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shortlisted for World Rugby&#8217;s Breakthrough Player of 2024 award, a shoulder injury meant he missed last year&#8217;s competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made his return to rugby in an England A game against France but was red-carded for a high shot on Antoine Hastoy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A ban ruled him out of two Tests against Argentina in the summer, but he returned to the starting line-up against the United States in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aiming to win their first Six Nations title for six years, England go into the competition on a run of 11 wins and their first unbeaten four-Test autumn in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/czr4r3g2p3po?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harrison says Roebuck is not b&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}