{"id":28440,"date":"2025-07-11T17:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/pollock-starts-with-farrell-on-bench-as-lions-name-team-to-face-aunz-xv\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T17:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:55:11","slug":"pollock-starts-with-farrell-on-bench-as-lions-name-team-to-face-aunz-xv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/pollock-starts-with-farrell-on-bench-as-lions-name-team-to-face-aunz-xv\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollock starts with Farrell on bench as Lions name team to face AUNZ XV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British and Irish Lions: Owen Farrell on bench as Henry Pollock starts vs AUNZ XV Owen Farrell in line to make 19th Lions appearance after shock call-up to squad; Ireland forward Tadhg Beirne captains much-changed side in final warm-up game; watch AUNZ Invitational XV vs Lions live on Sky Sports Action from 10am on Saturday<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/rugby-union\/news\/16057\/13394830\/british-and-irish-lions-squad-henry-pollock-starts-owen-farrell-on-bench-to-face-aunz-xv\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British and Irish Lions: Owen Farrell on bench as Henry Pollock starts vs AUNZ XV Owen Farrell in line to make 19th Lions appearance after shock call-up to squad; Ireland forward Tadhg Beirne captains much-changed side in final warm-up game; watch AUNZ Invitational XV vs Lions live on Sky Sports Action from 10am on SaturdayRead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}