{"id":13666,"date":"2012-08-19T14:59:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T12:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/rugby-wallabies-captain-pocock-a-doubt-for-return-all-black-test\/"},"modified":"2012-08-19T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T12:59:34","slug":"rugby-wallabies-captain-pocock-a-doubt-for-return-all-black-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-wallabies-captain-pocock-a-doubt-for-return-all-black-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Wallabies captain Pocock a doubt for return All Black test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocatio\/spann\">Aug 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Australia captain David Pocock is a doubt<br \/>\nfor next week&#8217;s Rugby Championship clash against New Zealand<br \/>\nafter injuring his knee in a 27-19 loss to the same opponents on<br \/>\nSaturday.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The openside flanker will go for a scan on Sunday to assess<br \/>\nthe damage and Wallabies coach Robbie Deans was coy about his<br \/>\nprized poacher&#8217;s availability for the match in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a possibility,&#8221; Deans told reporters when asked if<br \/>\nPocock could miss the test at Eden Park where Australia have not<br \/>\nwon since 1986.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Scrumhalf Will Genia will lead the side against the World<br \/>\nCup winners if Pocock fails to recover in time, Deans said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pocock was the only injury concern for the Wallabies after<br \/>\nthe scrappy defeat against their trans-Tasman rivals in the<br \/>\nopening match of the expanded Tri Nations tournament, which now<br \/>\nalso features Argentina.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The South Americans lost their first match in the tournament<br \/>\nto South Africa in Cape Town on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Patrick Johnston in Singapore; Editing by Sudipto<br \/>\nGanguly)<\/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 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Australia captain David Pocock is a doubt for next week&#8217;s Rugby Championship clash against New Zealand after injuring his knee in a 27-19 loss to the same opponents on Saturday. The openside flanker will go for a scan on Sunday to assess the damage and Wallabies coach Robbie Deans was coy [&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-13666","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\/13666","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=13666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}