{"id":187725,"date":"2021-05-02T09:08:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T07:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-news-hopes-high-for-more-scots-in-lions-tour-party-but-dont-bet-on-it\/"},"modified":"2021-05-02T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T07:08:31","slug":"sa-news-hopes-high-for-more-scots-in-lions-tour-party-but-dont-bet-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-news-hopes-high-for-more-scots-in-lions-tour-party-but-dont-bet-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"SA News: Hopes high for more Scots in Lions tour party &#8211; but don\u2019t bet on it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=0DAF0DA2067A4CD3B0FDFEF28191AB7F&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.heraldscotland.com%2fsport%2f19273926.hopes-high-scots-lions-tour-party---dont-bet%2f&#038;c=3839676909483678754&#038;mkt=en-gb\">Hopes high for more Scots in Lions tour party &#8211; but don\u2019t bet on it<\/a>: WHEN the Lions triumphed over World Champions South Africa in the first tour of the professional era back in 1997, there was five Scots \u2013 &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=0DAF0DA2067A4CD3B0FDFEF28191AB7F&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.heraldscotland.com%2fsport%2f19273926.hopes-high-scots-lions-tour-party---dont-bet%2f&#038;c=3839676909483678754&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=0DAF0DA2067A4CD3B0FDFEF28191AB7F&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2farticle%2fworld-champions-south-africa-ready-to-go-again-v0sphw9qb&#038;c=14956080742846274996&#038;mkt=en-gb\">World champions South Africa ready to go again<\/a>: Massive speculation surrounds the identity of the British &#038; Irish Lions team to play South Africa in the forthcoming Test series, but there are hardly any doubts about their likely opponents.Selection &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=0DAF0DA2067A4CD3B0FDFEF28191AB7F&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2farticle%2fworld-champions-south-africa-ready-to-go-again-v0sphw9qb&#038;c=14956080742846274996&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=0DAF0DA2067A4CD3B0FDFEF28191AB7F&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.com%2fsport%2frugby-union%2f56959966&#038;c=4303435437731888269&#038;mkt=en-gb\">Ben Youngs rules himself out of British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa<\/a>: England scrum-half Ben Youngs withdraws from contention for the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa because of family reasons.<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=0DAF0DA2067A4CD3B0FDFEF28191AB7F&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.com%2fsport%2frugby-union%2f56959966&#038;c=4303435437731888269&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=0DAF0DA2067A4CD3B0FDFEF28191AB7F&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2farticle%2fben-youngs-withdraws-from-lions-contention-for-family-reasons-bmqnf5d8s&#038;c=12901094672168401114&#038;mkt=en-gb\">Ben Youngs withdraws from Lions contention for family reasons<\/a>: Ben Youngs, the most-capped England scrum half, has told the British &#038; Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland that he will not be available for the tour of South Africa this summer.Youngs, who would &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=0DAF0DA2067A4CD3B0FDFEF28191AB7F&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2farticle%2fben-youngs-withdraws-from-lions-contention-for-family-reasons-bmqnf5d8s&#038;c=12901094672168401114&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopes high for more Scots in Lions tour party &#8211; but don\u2019t bet on it: WHEN the Lions triumphed over World Champions South Africa in the first tour of the professional era back in 1997, there was five Scots \u2013 &#8230; Source: &#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews World champions South Africa ready to go again: Massive [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[5021,3824,6108,1359,3432,830,3066,26883,3182],"class_list":{"0":"post-187725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-dont","8":"tag-high","9":"tag-hopes","10":"tag-lions","11":"tag-more","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-party","14":"tag-scots","15":"tag-tour","16":"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\/187725","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=187725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}