Northampton flanker Henry Pollock’s breakout season has been rewarded with a nomination for the Champions Cup Participant of the Yr.
The 20-year-old has scored six tries in six video games throughout Saints’ run to a second consecutive semi-final.
Leinster and New Zealand centre Jordie Barrett additionally makes the eight-strong shortlist, together with Toulouse’s English again row Jack Willis.
Eire and Leinster pair Caelan Doris and Jamison Gibson-Park are nominated, with Willis’ membership team-mate Thomas Ramos and Bordeaux-Begles pair Maxime Lucu and Damian Penaud additionally within the working.
Northampton face Leinster in Dublin on Saturday, 3 Could earlier than holders Toulouse face Bordeaux Begles in an all-French face-off the next day.
Pollock had made just one Premiership look earlier than the beginning of this season, spending a lot of final marketing campaign on mortgage at Championship facet Bedford.
Nevertheless, the departure of again rows Courtney Lawes and Lewis Ludlam has accelerated his progress, and, after successful the under-20 World Cup with England final summer season, he has develop into a key a part of the primary staff.
Pollock scored two tries off the bench on his Check debut in opposition to Wales on the finish of England’s Six Nations marketing campaign and has been touted as a attainable bolter for British and Irish Lions squad choice in Could.
