{"id":10143,"date":"2012-04-21T04:21:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T02:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/rugby-western-force-sack-coach-graham\/"},"modified":"2012-04-21T04:21:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T02:21:50","slug":"rugby-western-force-sack-coach-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-western-force-sack-coach-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Western Force sack coach Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">April 21<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Australia&#8217;s Western Force Super Rugby<br \/>\nfranchise have sacked coach Richard Graham after he said he<br \/>\nwould move to the Queensland Reds at the end of the season.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Graham had been expected to see out the remainder of the<br \/>\n2012 season with the Force before his move to Queensland, where<br \/>\nhe will replace Reds coach Ewen McKenzie, who is moving to a<br \/>\ndirector of coaching role.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Force, however, said late on Friday that after meetings<br \/>\nwith players and the board, they had decided that Graham would<br \/>\nleave the Perth-based team&#8217;s coaching position immediately.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The board has determined that a change to the coaching<br \/>\nstructure is for the betterment of the&#8230;Western Force with<br \/>\nstill half a season to play in 2012,&#8221; Chief Executive Officer<br \/>\nVern Reid said in a team statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Force defence coach Phil Blake, &#8216;A&#8217; team coach Andrew<br \/>\nScotney and forwards coach Nick Stiles will form a coaching<br \/>\npanel for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Captain David Pocock and veteran lock Nathan Sharpe will<br \/>\nalso help with the coaching.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Force are last in the Australian conference, having won<br \/>\njust two games. They have a bye this week.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Australia&#8217;s Western Force Super Rugby franchise have sacked coach Richard Graham after he said he would move to the Queensland Reds at the end of the season. Graham had been expected to see out the remainder of the 2012 season with the Force before his move to Queensland, where he will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}