{"id":13170,"date":"2012-08-04T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/rugby-waikato-chiefs-demolish-sharks-to-win-maiden-super-rugby-title\/"},"modified":"2012-08-04T14:04:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T12:04:22","slug":"rugby-waikato-chiefs-demolish-sharks-to-win-maiden-super-rugby-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-waikato-chiefs-demolish-sharks-to-win-maiden-super-rugby-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Waikato Chiefs demolish Sharks to win maiden Super Rugby title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocatio\/spann\">Aug 4 (Reuters) &#8211; The Waikato Chiefs powered to their first<br \/>\never Super Rugby title on Saturday with a sparkling 37-6 win<br \/>\nover the Sharks in Hamilton.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs lived up to their billing as the most<br \/>\nentertaining side in this season&#8217;s championship and also matched<br \/>\nthe hardworking South African forwards to bury memories of their<br \/>\nfinal humiliation to the Bulls three years ago.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tim Nanai-Williams, Kane Thompson, Lelia Masaga and Sonny<br \/>\nBill Williams touched down as the Chiefs made light of difficult<br \/>\nconditions at Waikato Stadium, running the ball whenever<br \/>\npossible and kicking intelligently.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs&#8217; become the sixth winners in 17 seasons of Super<br \/>\nRugby competition, while the Sharks looked drained by a third<br \/>\nstraight playoff away from home and have now lost all four of<br \/>\ntheir final appearances.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Stuart Condie; editing by Amlan Chakraborty)<\/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>Aug 4 (Reuters) &#8211; The Waikato Chiefs powered to their first ever Super Rugby title on Saturday with a sparkling 37-6 win over the Sharks in Hamilton. The Chiefs lived up to their billing as the most entertaining side in this season&#8217;s championship and also matched the hardworking South African forwards to bury memories of [&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-13170","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\/13170","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=13170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}