{"id":100128,"date":"2015-09-18T13:52:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T11:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/100128\/rugby-world-cup-its-here-at-last\/"},"modified":"2019-09-18T02:54:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T00:54:32","slug":"rugby-world-cup-its-here-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/09\/18\/rugby-world-cup-its-here-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby World Cup: It&#8217;s here&#8230; at last!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>David Rush, South Coast Herald.<\/h6>\n<p>ENGLAND doesn&#8217;t have that bad a record in Rugby World Cups.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re the only northern hemisphere to win the William Webb-Ellis trophy &#8211; and did it Down Under to boot.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>They&#8217;ll get things going against Fiji tonight and it will be interesting to see what the outcome is.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fijirugby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FijiRugby<\/a> announce side to face <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EnglandRugby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EnglandRugby<\/a> and kick-start their <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RWC2015?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RWC2015<\/a> campaign \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ENGvFJI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ENGvFJI<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/dIY9aGd7xd\">pic.twitter.com\/dIY9aGd7xd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rugby World Cup (@rugbyworldcup) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rugbyworldcup\/status\/644079619017191424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2015<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n<p>Fiji is much-improved. They&#8217;ve always had devastatingly rapid runners in the backline, but have lacked substance in the pack.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>That has apparently changed, but England will be prepared.<\/p>\n<p>So, in front of millions of patriotic fans, they could be a handful.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/py0AMSgbOXg' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quote from former England player, Jeremy Guscott:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHost nations invariably do well. Statistically they&#8217;ve always made the knockout stages and three times they&#8217;ve won it, albeit New Zealand have done it twice. South Africa in 1995 were the other home winners. On that basis alone, England should do well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s Bobby Skinstad&#8217;s take on his views of South Africa&#8217;s chances:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Springboks are probably slightly under-cooked, with half a dozen players coming back from injury. They are possibly not quite at their best yet, but I think that helps them. The selection has remained consistent and they have leaders with huge character.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='83fddfd0b861c865446ab1f4bba362d6'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rugby World Cup starts today. Let the bone-crunching begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5696,"featured_media":100136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":".","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8428,3],"tags":[8519,8526,7566,8527],"class_list":["post-100128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby-world-cup","category-sports-news","tag-england","tag-fiji","tag-rugby-world-cup","tag-twickenham"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Rugby World Cup"},"tag_labels":["england","fiji","Rugby World Cup","twickenham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}