{"id":11522,"date":"2012-06-15T23:23:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T21:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/rugby-england-replacement-dowson-forced-out-by-injury\/"},"modified":"2012-06-15T23:23:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T21:23:59","slug":"rugby-england-replacement-dowson-forced-out-by-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-england-replacement-dowson-forced-out-by-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-England replacement Dowson forced out by injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, June 15<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; England have been forced<br \/>\nto make a late change to their replacements for the second test<br \/>\nagainst South Africa in Johannesburg on Saturday, with loose<br \/>\nforward Phil Dowson ruled out due to injury.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dowson is suffering from a tight hamstring after Thursday&#8217;s<br \/>\ntraining session and the medical staff decided to withdraw him<br \/>\nfrom the match 22, England said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dowson&#8217;s place amongst the replacements is taken by the<br \/>\nuncapped, New Zealand-born Thomas Waldrom, who was the<br \/>\nman-of-the-match in the midweek victory over the Southern<br \/>\nBarbarians in Kimberley.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old former Hurricanes and Crusaders player<br \/>\nshowed exactly the sort of power and physicality that England<br \/>\nwill need against the Springboks if they are to keep the<br \/>\nthree-test series alive on Saturday, after losing the first<br \/>\n22-17 in Durban last weekend.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ken Borland. Editing by Patrick Johnston)<\/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>JOHANNESBURG, June 15 (Reuters) &#8211; England have been forced to make a late change to their replacements for the second test against South Africa in Johannesburg on Saturday, with loose forward Phil Dowson ruled out due to injury. Dowson is suffering from a tight hamstring after Thursday&#8217;s training session and the medical staff decided to [&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-11522","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\/11522","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=11522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}