{"id":51724,"date":"2014-01-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/51724\/starting-the-season-off-rightorgermiston-simmer-rugby-club-ready-for-the-seasonorsimmers-pre-season-trainingor\/"},"modified":"2014-01-13T12:24:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T10:24:22","slug":"starting-the-season-off-rightorgermiston-simmer-rugby-club-ready-for-the-seasonorsimmers-pre-season-trainingor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/01\/13\/starting-the-season-off-rightorgermiston-simmer-rugby-club-ready-for-the-seasonorsimmers-pre-season-trainingor\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting the season off right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston Simmer Rugby Club started the 2014 season with training on January 7.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Maree Bester is looking to build on his October\/November 2013 pre-season training, that included a gym programme, practise sessions and a pre-season friendly against Wits University, with fitness and ball handling.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It is imperative that a good fitness level is achieved, as a fit team provides so much more in terms of on-field strategy,&#8221; said Bester.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the club is preparing for the Lions Seven&#8217;s tournament, that will be held at the Alberton Rugby Club on February 8 and 9.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Bester is using all his experience gained in an illustrious coaching career in various provinces and with the Springbok Seven&#8217;s to prepare a team that will be able to compete with the best in the Golden Lions Rugby Union League.<\/p>\n<p>A word of welcome is extended to all new players; the club&#8217;s management also welcomes Hennie de Villiers, Pieter Botha and Garth Crombie to the coaching team.<\/p>\n<p>The Germiston Simmer Rugby Club&#8217;s annual general meeting will be held on January 21, at the club.<\/p>\n<p>All officials and players are requested to attend this meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Simmer has evolved in the last few years, to a club where the old Simmer spirit is prevalent at all occasions.<\/p>\n<p>This has been evident in the semi-final placing of the first team, and the league win of the u-19 team in the 2013 Senior Grand Challenge season.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Rene Audier is proud of the fact that all the 2013 boxes have been ticked and is confident that Simmer are well on their way to a first team league victory in the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>He invites all those interested in joining the club to attend Monday fitness sessions, as well as Tuesday and Thursday practise sessions, from 6.30pm to 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the club manager, Nardia Carlse, on 083 600 3304, or follow the club on Twitter @SimmerRugby, or on Facebook, at Germiston Simmer Rugby Club.<\/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='e03d30bf03d025f4d9f239e540ac31cc'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simmer&#8217;s pre-season training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":51797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,11,3],"tags":[979,2591,2593,2592,1122,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-51724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-simmer-rugby-club","tag-lions-sevens-tournament","tag-pre-season-training","tag-rugby","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["germiston","Germiston Simmer Rugby Club","Lions Seven's tournament","pre-season training","rugby","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51724","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}