{"id":70550,"date":"2017-08-08T16:07:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T14:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=70550"},"modified":"2017-08-08T16:07:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T14:07:20","slug":"cat-fight-encounter-coming-pumas-fortress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/08\/08\/cat-fight-encounter-coming-pumas-fortress\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat fight encounter coming to the Pumas fortress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Hennie Skorbinski will also once again lead the team with only fullback Devon Williams, centre Gerrit Smith and winger Ruwellyn Isbell retaining their places.<\/p>\n<p>Jerome Pretorius and flyhalf Justin van Staden are promoted from the bench while centre Neil Maritz gets a first opportunity in the Match 23.<\/p>\n<p>Van Staden will once again be partnered by scrumhalf Stefan Ungerer.<\/p>\n<p>Sias Ebersohn, who made a huge impact at inside centre against Western Province, wasn\u2019t considered for selection after a knock to his head.<\/p>\n<p>It was always coach Brent Janse van Rensburg\u2019s intent to rest some of his first-choice players for the Cheetahs match which they\u2019ve obviously targeted for a possible win on their home turf.<\/p>\n<p>With Francois Kleinhans once preferred as the open side flanker Chris Cloete will start from the bench for the second week running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pumas will field a brand-new pack and half back combinations with their short turn-around time for Wednesday afternoon\u2019s Currie Cup fixture against the Cheetahs in the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":70552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tobie van den Bergh","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2887,7,11,2,2886],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-sport","category-local-news","category-local-sports","category-news-headlines","category-sports-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}