{"id":687143,"date":"2025-01-31T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=687143"},"modified":"2025-02-03T21:54:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T21:54:52","slug":"ben-kay-englands-best-attacking-opportunities-are-off-disrupted-defensive-lines-against-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/ben-kay-englands-best-attacking-opportunities-are-off-disrupted-defensive-lines-against-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Kay: England&#8217;s best attacking opportunities are off disrupted defensive lines against Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ben Kay: England&#8217;s best attacking opportunities are off disrupted defensive lines against Ireland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite a lengthening injury list, where can England hurt Ireland in Dublin? Which areas of the game can they gain the upper hand in if they are to win there?<\/p>\n<p>The scrum is a massive area. That disruption for Ireland is there, it has become such a stable rock for them. When England win in Dublin, it&#8217;s always been about dominating aerially.<\/p>\n<p>See the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/rugbyrep.com\/ben-kay-englands-best-attacking-opportunities-are-off-disrupted-defensive-lines-against-ireland\/\">here<\/a> and the full blog <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.betway.com\/rugby-league\/ben-kay-england-should-start-marcus-smith-against-ireland\/\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Kay: England&#8217;s best attacking opportunities are off disrupted defensive lines against Ireland Despite a lengthening injury list, where can England hurt Ireland in Dublin? Which areas of the game can they gain the upper hand in if they are to win there? The scrum is a massive area. That disruption for Ireland is there, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":687145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687144,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687143\/revisions\/687144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}