{"id":12102,"date":"2012-07-04T12:13:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T10:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/rugby-crusaders-get-carter-back-for-chiefs-showdown\/"},"modified":"2012-07-04T12:13:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T10:13:50","slug":"rugby-crusaders-get-carter-back-for-chiefs-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-crusaders-get-carter-back-for-chiefs-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Crusaders get Carter back for Chiefs showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">July 4<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; All Blacks Dan Carter, Kieran Reed and<br \/>\nIsrael Dagg have all been recalled to the Canterbury Crusaders<br \/>\nteam for this week&#8217;s Super Rugby showdown with the Waikato<br \/>\nChiefs in Hamilton.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The seven-times champions lost to the Wellington Hurricanes<br \/>\nlast week and defeat to the championship-leading Chiefs in their<br \/>\npenultimate match on Friday would almost certainly leave them<br \/>\nwithout a place in the playoffs for the first time since 2001.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Carter was recalled at flyhalf after recovering from a<br \/>\nhamstring injury to take back the kicking duties after<br \/>\nreplacement back Tyler Bleyendaal missed what would have been a<br \/>\nmatch-winning penalty from halfway last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Number eight Reed, who has been in storming form for the<br \/>\nCrusaders and New Zealand this year, has been cleared to play<br \/>\nafter a concussion, allowing Richie McCaw to return to his<br \/>\nfavoured position on the openside flank.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dagg missed last week&#8217;s match with an ankle injury but will<br \/>\nbring his attacking flair back to the team at fullback for the<br \/>\nmatch against the Chiefs, who would wrap up the New Zealand<br \/>\nconference title with victory this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We really missed that experience last weekend,&#8221; Crusaders<br \/>\ncoach Todd Blackadder told local media.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you look at the way they had been performing before<br \/>\ninjury, they were absolutely on fire. It&#8217;s great to have them<br \/>\nback.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs have brought a big gun of their own into their<br \/>\nstarting line-up side for Saturday&#8217;s clash with aggressive<br \/>\nTongan prop Sona Taumalolo, who is the team&#8217;s top try scorer<br \/>\nthis year, taking his place at loosehead.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hulking number eight Kane Thompson has been ruled out by a<br \/>\nback injury but Sam Cane gets his first start at openside<br \/>\nflanker since making his All Blacks debut in last month&#8217;s test<br \/>\nseries against Ireland. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Nick Mulvenney; Editing by John O&#8217;Brien)<\/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>July 4 (Reuters) &#8211; All Blacks Dan Carter, Kieran Reed and Israel Dagg have all been recalled to the Canterbury Crusaders team for this week&#8217;s Super Rugby showdown with the Waikato Chiefs in Hamilton. The seven-times champions lost to the Wellington Hurricanes last week and defeat to the championship-leading Chiefs in their penultimate match on [&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-12102","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\/12102","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=12102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}