{"id":14463,"date":"2012-09-11T04:08:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T02:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/rugby-sharpe-to-lead-wallabies-against-argentina\/"},"modified":"2012-09-11T04:08:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T02:08:01","slug":"rugby-sharpe-to-lead-wallabies-against-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-sharpe-to-lead-wallabies-against-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Sharpe to lead Wallabies against Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">Sept 11<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Veteran lock Nathan Sharpe has been<br \/>\nnamed to lead Australia against Argentina in their Rugby<br \/>\nChampionship clash on Saturday, the third captain named by<br \/>\nWallabies coach Robbie Deans this season.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sharpe, who had planned to retire after the Super Rugby<br \/>\nseason but was persuaded by Deans to play on in the southern<br \/>\nhemisphere tournament, replaces Will Genia as captain after the<br \/>\nscrumhalf ruptured a knee ligament in the Wallabies&#8217; 26-19 win<br \/>\nover South Africa in Perth on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Genia had taken the captaincy from David Pocock, who had<br \/>\nalso sustained a season-ending knee injury against New Zealand<br \/>\nin their first match of the championship.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pocock had in turn taken it from regular captain James<br \/>\nHorwill, who was ruled out of the test season when he sustained<br \/>\na hamstring injury during the Super Rugby competition.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Australia team: 15-Berrick Barnes, 14-Dom Shipperley,<br \/>\n13-Adam Ashley-Cooper, 12-Pat McCabe, 11-Digby Ioane, 10-Quade<br \/>\nCooper, 9-Nick Phipps, 8-Radike Samo, 7-Michael Hooper, 6-Dave<br \/>\nDennis, 5-Nathan Sharpe (captain), 4-Kane Douglas, 3-Ben<br \/>\nAlexander, 2-Tatafu Polota Nau, 1-Benn Robinson<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Replacements: 16-Stephen Moore\/Saia Fainga&#8217;a, 17-James<br \/>\nSlipper, 18-Scott Higginbotham, 19-Liam Gill, 20-Brett Sheehan,<br \/>\n21-Anthony Fainga&#8217;a, 22-Kurtley Beale<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Greg Stutchbury in Wellington; Editing by Ian<br \/>\nRansom)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Veteran lock Nathan Sharpe has been named to lead Australia against Argentina in their Rugby Championship clash on Saturday, the third captain named by Wallabies coach Robbie Deans this season. Sharpe, who had planned to retire after the Super Rugby season but was persuaded by Deans to play on in the [&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-14463","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\/14463","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=14463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}