Rugby needs to take a hard look at itself. Why? Well, consider its attitude to Henry Pollock. The peroxide-blond England backrow has had a trajectory matched by few contemporaries and with it has come adulation and ‘social media fame’, but such is sport’s fickle nature, that opprobrium has duly followed.
Indeed, the further Pollock has soared, like Icarus, towards the heat of rugby’s traditional heartlands, with his perceived cock-of-the-walk hubris, the more he has enraged the game’s antediluvian leanings, with critics intent on clipping his wings and bringing him back down to earth.
In the aftermath of a barely believable encounter with France, which was settled by Thomas Ramos’ metronomic right boot, the Pollock hate mob tooled up, pitchforks ready and spat out venom online about what they see as this over-indulged, over-hyped chancer.
Crime No 1 was celebrating provocatively with his club colleague, Tommy Freeman, who ran under the sticks for what looked like the winning try with just over three minutes left on the clock. Catch a freezeframe of Pollock’s last nine Tests, and you’ll routinely see him launching himself on the shoulders of a try-scorer, especially at the Allianz in Twickenham. As a fleet-footed 7, who is routinely a support runner, it’s hardly sacrilegious to get lost in the emotion of a potentially match-winning score, especially at the riotously febrile Stade de France. After all, isn’t that what young athletes crave? That rush of adrenaline coursing through the veins and to have their competitive instincts sated, if only for a fleeting moment.
Henry Pollock celebrates with Tommy Freeman, while letting the crowd know what he thinks of their boos (Photo David Rogers/Getty Images)
It’s not like the French crowd were innocent bystanders, either. They were whistling their dissent long before he’d even entered the field of play, as they did in Bordeaux, with his club side, Northampton, earlier this year. No-one quite knows what he has done to affront the French rugby nation (and you can add the vocal South African fan for good measure), but the assumption is it’s for one flashy celebration too many. On Saturday night, those paysans from the earthy South were telling him where he could stick his chariot. So is he supposed to turn the other cheek like a good boy? Do me a favour. It’s all part of the theatre of elite sport.
Crime No 2 occurred just minutes later, with the young Northampton Saint’s accuracy found wanting as he spilt the ball just 58 seconds before full-time. This after he had already pulled off a match-saving tackle on Antoine Dupont and expertly stolen the ball from Thibaud Flament’s mitts and peeled away to keep it alive. Granted he could have gone to ground and recycled, but he made a hash of it. Yet when reviewing the tape, Cadan Murley may also rue rashly hacking the ball onwards in chaotic scenes, before France reclaimed it and Ramos broke English hearts.
There were mistakes aplenty but the biggest kicking was reserved for Pollock, who was held, arms outstretched, for a particularly brutal mauling in the digital stocks.
So was Pollock the only transgressor on a night of rare drama? Of course not. Eighty-cap Ellis Genge had been yellow-carded earlier in the game for pulling down a maul. Seventy-six-cap Elliot Daly had been beaten to the draw by the jet-heeled Louis Bielle-Biarrey down the left flank and 58-cap Luke Cowan-Dickie had been upended with the smell of the tryline in his nostrils. It was a night of imperfection, on both sides.
Lest we forget England have been handed eight yellow cards through the tournament as their discipline resembled a miscreant who had overdone the Kool-Aid. This rogue’s gallery included Maro Itoje, the England captain, yellow carded in Rome. Clearly, there were mistakes aplenty but the biggest kicking was reserved for Pollock, who was held, arms outstretched, for a particularly brutal mauling in the digital stocks. He’s young. He will make mistakes. He will learn. Cut him some slack for goodness’ sake.
On a night of high emotion, players from both sides made mistakes and were penalised, in a match for the ages (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)
Pollock, who remember only turned 21 two months ago, says he is unrepentant about his exuberant ‘pulse check’ celebrations. He says he does it not for himself, but for the greater good. To spread the gospel of the game far and wide. When the USA, a country that exults in individual brilliance, hosts the 2031 World Cup, he will be 26 and at his peak. Similar to Louis Rees-Zammit, another individual unafraid to go off-script, he hopes some showmanship will help rugby transcend its conservative, cosseted, closed-off garden. Should he instead be congratulated, rather than castigated, for having the gumption to stand out?
Fans and journalists alike love to bemoan the fact rugby’s stars are muzzled by overly officious media personnel or militarily briefed to churn out bland platitudes in press conferences that force the eyelids to shutter and yet the moment they unearth a gem like Pollock, happy to show off his personality and ruffle feathers, those same nay-sayers, who rail against rugby’s straitjacket, turn into the fun police. They cut him down to size for having the temerity to indulge in, deep breath, football-like behaviour.
Pollock is far from a bad lot. He willingly gives up his time for interviews, clearly cares about his team-mates and is said by many of those who know him as a likeable energiser and far more thoughtful than the agent provocateur he plays up to inside the four white lines of play.
Courtney Lawes, an insightful, eminently readable columnist with The Times, like a disapproving elder said pre-game there would be no way he or his team-mates would have been caught filming a TikTok. On viewing the evidence, it seemed like a pretty harmless bit of fun with friends Freddie Steward, Tommy Freeman and Fin Smith.
At 37, ‘Big Courts’ is not a TikTok-er, and that’s fine, but who’s to say he wouldn’t have been indulging in some digital tomfoolery had he been born 15 years later, as part of Gen-Z. He readily admitted he’d been involved in getting his teenage kicks on the mean streets of Northampton, so you’d have thought a goofy viral dance wouldn’t have upset his sensibilities.
Would Pollock be considered more ‘rugby’ if he was booting the Calcutta Cup down Princes Street in the early hours with a young Scottish starlet, as John Jeffrey and Dean Richards famously did, or drinking aftershave or worse at a post-match function? Surely a two-minute video from a sober-looking group of players who have grown up as digital natives isn’t too confronting for rugby’s grandees.
The point is Pollock is far from a bad lot. He willingly gives up his time for interviews, clearly cares about his team-mates – as witnessed by him consoling George Ford who endured a difficult day against Ireland – and is said by many of those who know him as a likeable energiser and far more thoughtful than the agent provocateur he plays up to on the field. Clearly, he’s maybe too brash for some, but watch old footage and he was swan-diving after scoring outrageous tries for Stowe, in front of a smattering of supporters. He doesn’t just play to the cameras. Like a labrador puppy, he just loves his rugby.
Henry Pollock is consoled by Maro Itoje after the last-gasp loss to France (Photo David Rogers/Getty Images)
Rugby likes to champion itself as an inclusive sport. One for all shapes and sizes, but surely this extends to personality-types. Does bashing his carefree nature out of him reflect well on our sport? This writer has his doubts.
While Pollock says the biting criticism doesn’t affect him, he is human, and he will, at some point, be minded to retreat into his shell, fall into line and conform. The upshot is rugby loses another figure who brings eyeballs to a sport fighting an ever tougher battle for shortening attention spans.
No-one is saying Pollock shouldn’t pay due deference to the hard-worn traditions of a 200-year-old sport but rugby needs to look ahead and move with the times. It does itself a disservice if it plays curmudgeon every time a wunderkind with oodles of chutzpah dares to stray from the norm and don’t be surprised if the transient sports fan ventures elsewhere for its dopamine hit, bored with rugby’s mundanity.
There’s way too much “in-organic PR hype” around Pollocks and anyone can see its backfiring. This article is good example, appealing to rugby’s knowledge fan base to “cut some slack”. From the Lion’s series i-dent ‘interstitials’ where Pollock’s image rights were clearly prioritised over the actual on-field heroes of the series, to the post match interviews where the MoM and captains played 2nd fiddle to a mop-haired upstart, we have all the reasons why we wont comply to that appeal!
The notion that the game is somehow dusty, staid and luddite - desperately needing a 21st century ’make-over’ effected by the playground-like antics of Pollocks for the benefit of connecting with audiences outside rugby’s core hinterland is the most MISGUIDED and RIDICULOUS statement ever made by rugby’s hacks.
Perhaps its as simple as said journos desperately seeking eyeballs and clicks…but the rugby world right now is witnessing the game go through an evolution where there’s never been a better on-field product as exemplified by the excellent 6N, Autumn Internationals and the ready-supply of quality Prem, URC, Top 14, Investec and Lions action. Although they’re annoyingly televised across different platforms finally the game is getting some serious eye-balls on it for the right reasons: skill, speed, tries, upsets, rivalries. Does it need pantomime theatrics, villain and heroes like the WWE’s infamous “Kefabe” scripts to drive audience buy-in?
There are many exceptional talents out there delivering on a weekly basis in this incredible Rugby panoply, of which Pollocks is just one. But why does he crave the attention of the media so, posing infront the camera at every chance, when even soccer players would cringe? The answer is money, and Eddie Hearn’s crass recent statement has only re-confirmed what we knew this was all about in the first place.
This is the PR-strategized build up to the 2031 RWC in the home of hype, with PR people leading the charge - as if it has been decided that this is the version of rugby that ‘sells’ - focusing in on the ‘play ground fight scene’ as core engagement content. Its as Pollocks has already scaled the vertical face of Rugby’s highest peaks and established himself in the pantheon of the all-time greats, on hand for any TV opportunity.
Its both bizarre and incredulous, especially when the viewer is treated to a demented looking bleached-fopped Pollocks staring down the camera whilst chewing on his mouthguard and toying with it like its somekind of toddler passifier. It reminded me of the early WWE, all faux hyping of the audience to buy into the Kefabe drama. Except this is a real contact sport and doesnt need such crass manipulation. It is frankly embarrassing. How is this extrapolation of reality what the game needs to grow its base, when the X-Factor pin-up is an expensively educated Pollock, acting like the very parody of the dimwit rugger lad that can be seen on any given Saturday in th private school circuit? Purrrrlease. Can we move on from this and let Henry grow up a little?
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GB 28 days ago
Lo spirito del gioco presuppone il rispetto e non reagire alle provocazioni: non è un buon esempio per i nostri ragazzi; direi al signor Pollock che il campo da calcio è 500 iarde più in là, parafrasando Nigel Owens.
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david 30 days ago
There was a team not so long ago that employed a no-dickheads policy. Strictly enforced, that policy paid huge dividends - two RWCs. One suspects Pollock wouldn’t have been selected on this issue alone, let alone his lack of grafting skills.
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Rolling Maul 30 days ago
Pollock is an incredible athlete and a worthy proponent of the sport. Like Marcus Smith and Finn Russell we don’t have to like them but we can admire their skills.
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WJ 30 days ago
Been a rugby fan since the 1960s. Pollock is a breath of fresh air. Leave him alone.
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gh 30 days ago
I don’t particularly like his antics but I am an old fart who played rugby in the 70s FFS. He will live or die by his antics and I hope it’s the former. Calling him a showboat is unkind and unnecessary. It adds nothing to the debate. He’s highly skilled and clearly motivated above normal levels, something to be welcomed. He adds welcome zing to a sometimes bland dish. Keep it up. I am South African.
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IG 30 days ago
People should remember when they were 21 and full of themselves, give Pollock a break. He plays with a smile on his face which is more than can be said for some of the other players. My advice to Pollock is do not conform to norm as they want to clip your wings.
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SG 31 days ago
He needs to stop show boating and play rugby….he is arrogant and not good for rugby…football mentality. Best qualities of a player is humility and motivation…not HP behavior
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Lou Cifer 31 days ago
He can gesticulate all he likes on the pitch, but he then needs to be able to handle what comes his way if people don’t like it & he fails etc
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Piston 32 days ago
Saw this in a piece from Liam Heagney about Pollock : “If antagonism and gamesmanship were something that earned Six Nations Fantasy team points, then there might be a wisdom to his non-stop antics away from the ball, but it is really getting to the stage where he needs to cool it and just get on with his rugby. There is only so long he can acceptably be the pantomime villain
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Piston 32 days ago
Not arguing the scribe’s point, however it’s Pollocks continues “chasing” the big screen. Show me where he is a better impact player than Kwagga (boks) or Sititi (AB’s) game for game, they are phenomenal making a real difference and not big screen wannabe’s - and I’m talking Test rugby not touchies in the PREM.
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mJ 32 days ago
Not a fan of his antics and not an English supporter but he is exactly the type of player England need off the bench. He is athletic, has very good skills for a forward, works very hard when he’s on, really puts pressure on at the breakdown, gets in good positions and chases and backs up everything. England need athletic and skilful bench players to bring impact in second halves. He’ll be a real threat by the time the WC comes round if he hasn’t imploded from the pressure he’s putting on himself.
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RoyceCoolidge 32 days ago
Borthwick needs to cut Pollock. There’s far better players available.
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Tom 32 days ago
Cut him some slack? Not bothered. Write fewer articles about him? Definitely.
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Soliloquin 32 days ago
I don’t see how playing the pantomime attracts more attention and gets youngsters play more rugby.
I could be mistaken and if by 2031 a study has found that England has gained more viewers, more fans in stadiums thanks to Pollock acting like an incel well into his “villain arc”.
For now, Ilona Maher, Siya Kolisi, Antoine Dupont, or LBB have done more for the sport with mainly positive sportsmanship.
It’s also victories and successes. I’m not sure rugby would have the same popularity if the Springboks didn’t win 2 RWC in a row, but Sacha FM would act like Pollock.
It didn’t really work with Huget in France during the 2011-2019 era.
The argument of him being so great, empathetic with his team mates and fans is irrelevant to me. Human beings, especially men, can hardly stand feeling like they’re the bad guys all the time. They use the public to make up an image and justify their actions by saying that it’s an act.
“I’m not a bad person, I’m doing philanthropy, I help my neighbours with their groceries.”
So many “great” men, idolized and adored have often done that to compensate their evil deeds.
And it’s about what you do in order to win. Just like Materrazzi and Zidane, where some people were defending the Italian defender, saying he was a sweet person with his teammates. Or Mourinho, who was usually loved by his players.
Football is now losing attraction, it has become the reflexion of the worst done in order to win: simulation, discrimination, constant banter, more and more bets, full of unbearable millionaires who play for stats and where most of them are encouraged to do the worst to win.
The problem is not playing to win, because that is sport.
It’s what you think you must be doing in order to win.
England will come back to winning at some point, but will it be because of Pollock acting like a teen with a sad tendency of compensating his low self-esteem by inflating it?
Or because there is an incredible set of players like Chessum, Heyes, IFW or Freeman who make them win?
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jb 15 days ago
brilliant commentary.
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Ed the Duck 32 days ago
Who knows how the future will play out but when Brian O’Driscoll gets home to find his son dressed up to play his rugby Pollock style, then you can see he’s having an impact!
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J Marc 32 days ago
Hilarious. Every game, every week we can find an article of this “ rugby star”. When will we find an article on the best player of this game in his position : Chessum ?
Maybe he is a great “ rugby star”, but for the moment, we have far more articles on his behavior and his problems with opponents players and fans than on his exploits on the pitch . So , he is not responsible of the world hunger and not the only responsible of the boos in the stands. But maybe you should ask yourself who are the other guilty peoples… and begin by yourselves…
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David 32 days ago
No.
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John Breslin 32 days ago
He doesn't currently look test standard if looking purely at his rugby - which the other stuff deflects from
It's on the RFU. Wrecked his development. Snatched him from the U20s fold last year - likely costing their U20s a slam - and flung him in
Rucking, spacial awareness and basic tackling are all off the pace. At times, alarmingly so. Senior test level is a huge step up from club rugby
By allowing a target on his back, only his flaws now get highlighted and amplified
They had an unquestionably talented lad and the RFU have wrecked him. In near record time
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PMcD 32 days ago
Are you talking Pollocks again?? 🤣🤣
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Ed the Duck 32 days ago
“Senior test level is a huge step up from club rugby
By allowing a target on his back, only his flaws now get highlighted and amplified
They had an unquestionably talented lad and the RFU have wrecked him. In near record time”
Pollock or Prendergassed???
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ampoff 32 days ago
Always this simplistic false dichotomy, as if there is no alternative between being a bore and being…well, Pollock.
Is it conceivable that a player can be engaging without being that obnoxious?
All this ‘good for the game' nonsense…is it really? I thought this 6N was about as entertaining as sport gets, and it definitely wouldn't have been any better if more players were gurning show ponies.
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Ed the Duck 32 days ago
Come on, that’s a bit churlish. His antics when he thought his mate had scored the winning try a few minutes earlier added to the occasion when Ramos sealed the deal!
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Jacque 32 days ago
I think the media should. He’s so overrated. Poor guy.
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unknown 32 days ago
Rugby needs characters to grow the game. They may not be to everyone’s liking but they increase the interest and talk around the sport. Pollock may wind people up and get a lot of stick but it’s all a bit of a pantomime. Some people are easily offended and need to lighten up a bit
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unknown 32 days ago
I love him and would encourage him to be even more OTT. The best thing about him is that he plays for the English🙏
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Owain Glyndwr 32 days ago
As the great Welsh rugby referee Nigel Owens once said to players during a rugby world cup match, it’s not soccer.
Pollock is immatating spoilt, arrogant premier league football players. Pollock is arrogant and believing in his own hype. He's good player, he’s not a great player. And he’s nowhere near world class. Unless you believe the biased English media.
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BigGabe 32 days ago
Hey, tallest trees catch the most wind. He is quite welcome to go ahead and do what he does, but then it’s only fair that people comment on it all. What this writer misses is nuance, which is unsurprising for a) someone who took a potshot at South Africans for no apparent reason and then never followed up on it, and b) this site.
No one has a problem with someone who celebrates a try, or even celebrates the try of their teammates. Happens all the time. No one has a problem with someone who loves their rugby, as he clearly does. Do we really think he enjoys his rugby more than other professionals in the arena? That’s unfair to every rugby player out there. But telling crowds to shush? Well, that’s obviously asking for it - no one likes being told to keep quiet. Going on and on and on like only the English can (see ‘plastic energy’), famously no one likes it. Ben Earl, Tom Curry, we’re looking at you. The incessant celebrations as if he has won the game is a lot, maybe actually win a tournament before you start celebrating every little point (English media hyping the grand slam decider, we’re looking at you).
It’s a case of, ok we get it Pollock you’re playing the villain. But he is rubbing it in people’s faces, looking for a reaction and he is getting it. I know he is young wadda wadda wadda, but it’s not as if every single 21yo is doing the same thing? And yeah yeah yeah we get that rugby has boring people etc etc, but there’s a middle ground between being boring and being Henry Pollock. Why do we have to oscillate from one extreme to another?
Cut him some slack? Cut the public some slack. Be a better journalist.
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Ed the Duck 32 days ago
Not heard anything of him complaining about his treatment, seems happy to give and take it so far as I can see. So no harm done really…
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Eric Elwood 32 days ago
Cut him some slack?
He is allowed to clown about and mock opponent players and supporters with impunity.
Isn’t it time a more mature member of his club/country took him aside for a long overdue chat?
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benny_pea 32 days ago
Rugby is constantly evolving on the pitch, why can’t it evolve off it? Pollock is good for the game, bringing in a younger audience is what the game needs.
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Ed the Duck 32 days ago
Provided he can take what he gives out, and so far that appears to be the case, then no, it’s all good. As the old saying goes, there’s no such thing as bad publicity and rugby needs all the eyeballs, and $s that follow, that it can get.
Alternatively continue to act like a proverbial old fart and be aghast at everything!
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GG 32 days ago
No problem with him at all. What he does need to realise and then cope with, is that if he wants to put himself on the forefront and send out messages to the fans out there, he should expect and handle the backlash. Personally I am from the school of Pieter Steph du Toit, who goes about the business in his own quiet way where his message is not of making gestures and impersonations but of sheer number of actions which turn games into wins for his side. Simple, effective, unrelenting and hard nosed stuff. And then quietly walks off and goes back to being a humble remarkable rugger player. That resonates more with me.
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Clive 32 days ago
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
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SB 32 days ago
Good on him for having fun, no worries about it. After UBB played the Saints, he was booed during the game but then applauded with his name chanted afterwards as the crowd respects his ability. Should he be the first loose forward off the bench for England? Not sure, CCS makes a huge impact and in only 5 minutes for example. Rugby is great with characters and there’s nothing wrong with his behaviour as long as it doesn’t go far. I’m not sure he will be cupping his ears and shushing the crowd again in the 78th minute before the match has finished though.
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There’s way too much “in-organic PR hype” around Pollocks and anyone can see its backfiring. This article is good example, appealing to rugby’s knowledge fan base to “cut some slack”. From the Lion’s series i-dent ‘interstitials’ where Pollock’s image rights were clearly prioritised over the actual on-field heroes of the series, to the post match interviews where the MoM and captains played 2nd fiddle to a mop-haired upstart, we have all the reasons why we wont comply to that appeal!
The notion that the game is somehow dusty, staid and luddite - desperately needing a 21st century ’make-over’ effected by the playground-like antics of Pollocks for the benefit of connecting with audiences outside rugby’s core hinterland is the most MISGUIDED and RIDICULOUS statement ever made by rugby’s hacks.
Perhaps its as simple as said journos desperately seeking eyeballs and clicks…but the rugby world right now is witnessing the game go through an evolution where there’s never been a better on-field product as exemplified by the excellent 6N, Autumn Internationals and the ready-supply of quality Prem, URC, Top 14, Investec and Lions action. Although they’re annoyingly televised across different platforms finally the game is getting some serious eye-balls on it for the right reasons: skill, speed, tries, upsets, rivalries. Does it need pantomime theatrics, villain and heroes like the WWE’s infamous “Kefabe” scripts to drive audience buy-in?
There are many exceptional talents out there delivering on a weekly basis in this incredible Rugby panoply, of which Pollocks is just one. But why does he crave the attention of the media so, posing infront the camera at every chance, when even soccer players would cringe? The answer is money, and Eddie Hearn’s crass recent statement has only re-confirmed what we knew this was all about in the first place.
This is the PR-strategized build up to the 2031 RWC in the home of hype, with PR people leading the charge - as if it has been decided that this is the version of rugby that ‘sells’ - focusing in on the ‘play ground fight scene’ as core engagement content. Its as Pollocks has already scaled the vertical face of Rugby’s highest peaks and established himself in the pantheon of the all-time greats, on hand for any TV opportunity.
Its both bizarre and incredulous, especially when the viewer is treated to a demented looking bleached-fopped Pollocks staring down the camera whilst chewing on his mouthguard and toying with it like its somekind of toddler passifier. It reminded me of the early WWE, all faux hyping of the audience to buy into the Kefabe drama. Except this is a real contact sport and doesnt need such crass manipulation. It is frankly embarrassing. How is this extrapolation of reality what the game needs to grow its base, when the X-Factor pin-up is an expensively educated Pollock, acting like the very parody of the dimwit rugger lad that can be seen on any given Saturday in th private school circuit? Purrrrlease. Can we move on from this and let Henry grow up a little?
Lo spirito del gioco presuppone il rispetto e non reagire alle provocazioni: non è un buon esempio per i nostri ragazzi; direi al signor Pollock che il campo da calcio è 500 iarde più in là, parafrasando Nigel Owens.
There was a team not so long ago that employed a no-dickheads policy. Strictly enforced, that policy paid huge dividends - two RWCs. One suspects Pollock wouldn’t have been selected on this issue alone, let alone his lack of grafting skills.
Pollock is an incredible athlete and a worthy proponent of the sport. Like Marcus Smith and Finn Russell we don’t have to like them but we can admire their skills.
Been a rugby fan since the 1960s. Pollock is a breath of fresh air. Leave him alone.
I don’t particularly like his antics but I am an old fart who played rugby in the 70s FFS. He will live or die by his antics and I hope it’s the former. Calling him a showboat is unkind and unnecessary. It adds nothing to the debate. He’s highly skilled and clearly motivated above normal levels, something to be welcomed. He adds welcome zing to a sometimes bland dish. Keep it up. I am South African.
People should remember when they were 21 and full of themselves, give Pollock a break. He plays with a smile on his face which is more than can be said for some of the other players. My advice to Pollock is do not conform to norm as they want to clip your wings.
He needs to stop show boating and play rugby….he is arrogant and not good for rugby…football mentality. Best qualities of a player is humility and motivation…not HP behavior
He can gesticulate all he likes on the pitch, but he then needs to be able to handle what comes his way if people don’t like it & he fails etc
Saw this in a piece from Liam Heagney about Pollock : “If antagonism and gamesmanship were something that earned Six Nations Fantasy team points, then there might be a wisdom to his non-stop antics away from the ball, but it is really getting to the stage where he needs to cool it and just get on with his rugby. There is only so long he can acceptably be the pantomime villain
Not arguing the scribe’s point, however it’s Pollocks continues “chasing” the big screen. Show me where he is a better impact player than Kwagga (boks) or Sititi (AB’s) game for game, they are phenomenal making a real difference and not big screen wannabe’s - and I’m talking Test rugby not touchies in the PREM.
Not a fan of his antics and not an English supporter but he is exactly the type of player England need off the bench. He is athletic, has very good skills for a forward, works very hard when he’s on, really puts pressure on at the breakdown, gets in good positions and chases and backs up everything. England need athletic and skilful bench players to bring impact in second halves. He’ll be a real threat by the time the WC comes round if he hasn’t imploded from the pressure he’s putting on himself.
Borthwick needs to cut Pollock. There’s far better players available.
Cut him some slack? Not bothered. Write fewer articles about him? Definitely.
I don’t see how playing the pantomime attracts more attention and gets youngsters play more rugby.
I could be mistaken and if by 2031 a study has found that England has gained more viewers, more fans in stadiums thanks to Pollock acting like an incel well into his “villain arc”.
For now, Ilona Maher, Siya Kolisi, Antoine Dupont, or LBB have done more for the sport with mainly positive sportsmanship.
It’s also victories and successes. I’m not sure rugby would have the same popularity if the Springboks didn’t win 2 RWC in a row, but Sacha FM would act like Pollock.
It didn’t really work with Huget in France during the 2011-2019 era.
The argument of him being so great, empathetic with his team mates and fans is irrelevant to me. Human beings, especially men, can hardly stand feeling like they’re the bad guys all the time. They use the public to make up an image and justify their actions by saying that it’s an act.
“I’m not a bad person, I’m doing philanthropy, I help my neighbours with their groceries.”
So many “great” men, idolized and adored have often done that to compensate their evil deeds.
And it’s about what you do in order to win. Just like Materrazzi and Zidane, where some people were defending the Italian defender, saying he was a sweet person with his teammates. Or Mourinho, who was usually loved by his players.
Football is now losing attraction, it has become the reflexion of the worst done in order to win: simulation, discrimination, constant banter, more and more bets, full of unbearable millionaires who play for stats and where most of them are encouraged to do the worst to win.
The problem is not playing to win, because that is sport.
It’s what you think you must be doing in order to win.
England will come back to winning at some point, but will it be because of Pollock acting like a teen with a sad tendency of compensating his low self-esteem by inflating it?
Or because there is an incredible set of players like Chessum, Heyes, IFW or Freeman who make them win?
brilliant commentary.
Who knows how the future will play out but when Brian O’Driscoll gets home to find his son dressed up to play his rugby Pollock style, then you can see he’s having an impact!
Hilarious. Every game, every week we can find an article of this “ rugby star”. When will we find an article on the best player of this game in his position : Chessum ?
Maybe he is a great “ rugby star”, but for the moment, we have far more articles on his behavior and his problems with opponents players and fans than on his exploits on the pitch . So , he is not responsible of the world hunger and not the only responsible of the boos in the stands. But maybe you should ask yourself who are the other guilty peoples… and begin by yourselves…
No.
He doesn't currently look test standard if looking purely at his rugby - which the other stuff deflects from
It's on the RFU. Wrecked his development. Snatched him from the U20s fold last year - likely costing their U20s a slam - and flung him in
Rucking, spacial awareness and basic tackling are all off the pace. At times, alarmingly so. Senior test level is a huge step up from club rugby
By allowing a target on his back, only his flaws now get highlighted and amplified
They had an unquestionably talented lad and the RFU have wrecked him. In near record time
Are you talking Pollocks again?? 🤣🤣
“Senior test level is a huge step up from club rugby
By allowing a target on his back, only his flaws now get highlighted and amplified
They had an unquestionably talented lad and the RFU have wrecked him. In near record time”
Pollock or Prendergassed???
Always this simplistic false dichotomy, as if there is no alternative between being a bore and being…well, Pollock.
Is it conceivable that a player can be engaging without being that obnoxious?
All this ‘good for the game' nonsense…is it really? I thought this 6N was about as entertaining as sport gets, and it definitely wouldn't have been any better if more players were gurning show ponies.
Come on, that’s a bit churlish. His antics when he thought his mate had scored the winning try a few minutes earlier added to the occasion when Ramos sealed the deal!
I think the media should. He’s so overrated. Poor guy.
Rugby needs characters to grow the game. They may not be to everyone’s liking but they increase the interest and talk around the sport. Pollock may wind people up and get a lot of stick but it’s all a bit of a pantomime. Some people are easily offended and need to lighten up a bit
I love him and would encourage him to be even more OTT. The best thing about him is that he plays for the English🙏
As the great Welsh rugby referee Nigel Owens once said to players during a rugby world cup match, it’s not soccer.
Pollock is immatating spoilt, arrogant premier league football players. Pollock is arrogant and believing in his own hype. He's good player, he’s not a great player. And he’s nowhere near world class. Unless you believe the biased English media.
Hey, tallest trees catch the most wind. He is quite welcome to go ahead and do what he does, but then it’s only fair that people comment on it all. What this writer misses is nuance, which is unsurprising for a) someone who took a potshot at South Africans for no apparent reason and then never followed up on it, and b) this site.
No one has a problem with someone who celebrates a try, or even celebrates the try of their teammates. Happens all the time. No one has a problem with someone who loves their rugby, as he clearly does. Do we really think he enjoys his rugby more than other professionals in the arena? That’s unfair to every rugby player out there. But telling crowds to shush? Well, that’s obviously asking for it - no one likes being told to keep quiet. Going on and on and on like only the English can (see ‘plastic energy’), famously no one likes it. Ben Earl, Tom Curry, we’re looking at you. The incessant celebrations as if he has won the game is a lot, maybe actually win a tournament before you start celebrating every little point (English media hyping the grand slam decider, we’re looking at you).
It’s a case of, ok we get it Pollock you’re playing the villain. But he is rubbing it in people’s faces, looking for a reaction and he is getting it. I know he is young wadda wadda wadda, but it’s not as if every single 21yo is doing the same thing? And yeah yeah yeah we get that rugby has boring people etc etc, but there’s a middle ground between being boring and being Henry Pollock. Why do we have to oscillate from one extreme to another?
Cut him some slack? Cut the public some slack. Be a better journalist.
Not heard anything of him complaining about his treatment, seems happy to give and take it so far as I can see. So no harm done really…
Cut him some slack?
He is allowed to clown about and mock opponent players and supporters with impunity.
Isn’t it time a more mature member of his club/country took him aside for a long overdue chat?
Rugby is constantly evolving on the pitch, why can’t it evolve off it? Pollock is good for the game, bringing in a younger audience is what the game needs.
Provided he can take what he gives out, and so far that appears to be the case, then no, it’s all good. As the old saying goes, there’s no such thing as bad publicity and rugby needs all the eyeballs, and $s that follow, that it can get.
Alternatively continue to act like a proverbial old fart and be aghast at everything!
No problem with him at all. What he does need to realise and then cope with, is that if he wants to put himself on the forefront and send out messages to the fans out there, he should expect and handle the backlash. Personally I am from the school of Pieter Steph du Toit, who goes about the business in his own quiet way where his message is not of making gestures and impersonations but of sheer number of actions which turn games into wins for his side. Simple, effective, unrelenting and hard nosed stuff. And then quietly walks off and goes back to being a humble remarkable rugger player. That resonates more with me.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Good on him for having fun, no worries about it. After UBB played the Saints, he was booed during the game but then applauded with his name chanted afterwards as the crowd respects his ability. Should he be the first loose forward off the bench for England? Not sure, CCS makes a huge impact and in only 5 minutes for example. Rugby is great with characters and there’s nothing wrong with his behaviour as long as it doesn’t go far. I’m not sure he will be cupping his ears and shushing the crowd again in the 78th minute before the match has finished though.