{"id":221074,"date":"2019-10-18T13:29:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T11:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/221074\/bongi-better-suited-start-quarter-final\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T13:29:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T11:29:34","slug":"bongi-better-suited-start-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2019\/10\/18\/bongi-better-suited-start-quarter-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Bongi better suited to start quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Springboks&#8217; coach Rassie Erasmus says he selected Bongi Mbonambi in the Boks\u2019 starting lineup because the hooker is better suited to the game they want to employ in the quarter-final against Japan.<span id=\"more-73629\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mbonambi was named as the starting No 2 ahead of Malcolm Marx,\u00a0who has had an indifferent World Cup campaign to date.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>But Erasmus says his selection of Mbonambi ahead of Marx has more to do with the utilisation of the duo\u2019s key strengths at certain intervals of the match, as opposed to the contrasting form they\u2019ve exhibited at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are great hookers, add Schalk Brits, and we\u2019ve got three world-class hookers. The way we want to play against Japan, especially trying to keep up with the pace that they play at, Bongi is definitely the more physically brutal, scrummaging in-your-face hooker,&#8221; Erasmus explained.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Read the rest of the article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarugbymag.co.za\/bongi-better-suited-to-start-quarter-final\/\" target=\"_blank\">SA Rugby Mag<\/a>.<\/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='dd150a774a412cfb53378bd442dfb44a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erasmus says his selection of Mbonambi ahead of Marx has more to do with the utilisation of the duo\u2019s key strengths at certain intervals of the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8284,"featured_media":221075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"SA Rugby Mag","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8428,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby-world-cup","category-sports-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Rugby World Cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221074","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\/8284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}