{"id":11938,"date":"2012-06-29T00:02:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T22:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/rugby-former-wallabies-skipper-elsom-to-play-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2012-06-29T00:02:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T22:02:15","slug":"rugby-former-wallabies-skipper-elsom-to-play-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-former-wallabies-skipper-elsom-to-play-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Former Wallabies skipper Elsom to play in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">MELBOURNE, June 28<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Former Australia captain<br \/>\nRocky Elsom has signed for Japanese club Kobe Steel and injury<br \/>\nmeans he has almost certainly played his last match for the New<br \/>\nSouth Wales Waratahs this season, the Super rugby team&#8217;s coach<br \/>\nMichael Foley said on Thursday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Elsom, one of the world&#8217;s best blindside flankers when fit,<br \/>\nhas managed just three games in an injury-blighted 2012<br \/>\ncampaign.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rocky is still recovering from a shoulder injury and it&#8217;s<br \/>\ngetting better all the time, but we probably won&#8217;t see him this<br \/>\nyear unfortunately,&#8221; Foley told reporters. &#8220;He&#8217;s signed to play<br \/>\nin Japan and we wish him well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Elsom, 29, played over 60 matches for the Sydney-based<br \/>\nWaratahs in his first stint from 2003-2008 before heading to<br \/>\nIreland where he helped Leinster win the Heineken Cup in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He returned to Australia soon after and led the Wallabies<br \/>\nfor the best part of two seasons before being replaced as<br \/>\ncaptain by James Horwill just weeks out from last year&#8217;s World<br \/>\nCup in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Elsom was omitted from Australia&#8217;s squad for the recent<br \/>\ntests against Scotland and Wales, effectively ending his 75-test<br \/>\ncareer.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ian Ransom, Editing by Tom Bartlett)<\/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>MELBOURNE, June 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Former Australia captain Rocky Elsom has signed for Japanese club Kobe Steel and injury means he has almost certainly played his last match for the New South Wales Waratahs this season, the Super rugby team&#8217;s coach Michael Foley said on Thursday. Elsom, one of the world&#8217;s best blindside flankers when [&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-11938","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\/11938","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=11938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}