{"id":18770,"date":"2013-03-16T15:09:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T13:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/kings-fight-tooth-and-nail-against-chiefs\/"},"modified":"2013-03-16T15:09:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T13:09:09","slug":"kings-fight-tooth-and-nail-against-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/kings-fight-tooth-and-nail-against-chiefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings fight tooth and nail against Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chiefs got what they wanted from their visit to Port Elizabeth\u2019s magnificent Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, but they would not have ended their 35-24 Vodacom Super Rugby win over the Southern Kings without knowing they had been in a contest.<\/p>\n

It was summed up by the decision to get fullback Gareth Anscombe to kick for posts when the Chiefs were awarded a penalty five minutes from time. Who would have believed before the season started that the Kings would have forced the champions to kick for a three-pointer to make sure of the victory?<\/p>\n

The Kings were eight points behind at that stage; they had eaten the deficit down from 19.<\/p>\n

Instead of lying down and dying like many would have expected them to once the Chiefs had taken a handy lead, the Kings fought back tenaciously, getting the big crowd behind them in the process. \u2013 supersport<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chiefs got what they wanted from their visit to Port Elizabeth\u2019s magnificent Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, but they would not have ended their 35-24 Vodacom Super Rugby win over the Southern Kings without knowing they had been in a contest. It was summed up by the decision to get fullback Gareth Anscombe to kick […]<\/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":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-18770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","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\/18770","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=18770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}