{"id":12417,"date":"2012-07-14T12:44:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T10:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/rugby-brumbies-falter-at-the-last-to-open-door-for-the-reds\/"},"modified":"2012-07-14T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T10:44:26","slug":"rugby-brumbies-falter-at-the-last-to-open-door-for-the-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-brumbies-falter-at-the-last-to-open-door-for-the-reds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Brumbies falter at the last to open door for the Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">July 14<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; The ACT Brumbies lost their last regular<br \/>\nseason Super Rugby match 30-16 to the Auckland Blues on Saturday<br \/>\nto give the Queensland Reds a chance of snatching the Australian<br \/>\nconference title.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Brumbies needed just a single point in Canberra to secure<br \/>\na position in the top three of the final standings and a first<br \/>\ntrip to the playoffs since 2004 but were well-beaten by the<br \/>\nBlues.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The defending champion Reds can now retain the Australian<br \/>\ntitle with a bonus point victory over the New South Wales<br \/>\nWaratahs in Brisbane later on Saturday, which would leave the<br \/>\nBrumbies needing to rely on other results to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Blues were already well out of contention after a hugely<br \/>\ndisappointing season but first half tries from Liaki Moli,<br \/>\nDaniel Braid and Hadleigh Parkes were enough to fire them to<br \/>\ntheir fourth victory of the year.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Nick Mulvenney in Sydney, editing by Amlan<br \/>\nChakraborty)<\/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 14 (Reuters) &#8211; The ACT Brumbies lost their last regular season Super Rugby match 30-16 to the Auckland Blues on Saturday to give the Queensland Reds a chance of snatching the Australian conference title. The Brumbies needed just a single point in Canberra to secure a position in the top three of the final [&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-12417","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\/12417","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=12417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}