{"id":99891,"date":"2015-09-16T14:11:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T12:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=99891"},"modified":"2019-09-18T02:54:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T00:54:33","slug":"boks-should-swim-through-pool-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/09\/16\/boks-should-swim-through-pool-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Boks should swim through pool stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Springboks\" target=\"_blank\">SOUTH Africa<\/a> have a pretty easy pool at this World Cup, it has to be said.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re in Pool B and will face Japan, Samoa, Scotland and the USA.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Scotland could be a problem if they play out of their minds and the weather is desperate, but it&#8217;s unlikely.<br \/>\nSamoa will be a serious physical threat, and the Boks would like to get through that game without any injuries.<br \/>\nJapan and the USA will have one or two fancy moves but nothing that will give coach Heyneke Meyer any sleepless nights &#8211; and no doubt, he has had more than enough of those.<\/p>\n<p>The pools are as follows:<br \/>\nPool A &#8211; Australia, England, Fiji, Uruguay and Wales.<br \/>\nPool B &#8211; Japan, Samoa, Scotland, South Africa, USA.<br \/>\nPool C &#8211; Argentina, Georgia, Namibia, New Zealand, Tonga.<br \/>\nPool D &#8211; Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Romania.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;re all just a little bit excited.....we can finally (!) say <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RWC2015?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RWC2015<\/a> IS THIS WEEK! It&#39;s nearly time people <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/fty5iliSrv\">pic.twitter.com\/fty5iliSrv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rugby World Cup (@rugbyworldcup) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rugbyworldcup\/status\/643303590711455744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2015<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n<p>Pool A is arguably the Pool of Death, but Wales have lost some key players to injury and so shouldn&#8217;t trouble Australia and England too much.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina could be a banana skin to New Zealand in Pool C, but it&#8217;s unlikely. It would suit South Africa though as B1 is on track to face C1 in one of the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>In Pool D, Italy would have to produce something special to upset either of France or Ireland.<\/p>\n\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='d897133013752d0a321202676961c579'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This could be the World Cup with the least upsets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5696,"featured_media":99927,"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":[8503,7566,8504,8505,1767,3666],"class_list":["post-99891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby-world-cup","category-sports-news","tag-japan","tag-rugby-world-cup","tag-samoa","tag-scotland","tag-springboks","tag-usa"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Rugby World Cup"},"tag_labels":["japan","Rugby World Cup","samoa","scotland","springboks","USA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99891","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=99891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}