{"id":23903,"date":"2013-09-30T21:17:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T19:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/2013\/09\/absa-currie-cup-format-2014-same-old-same-old\/"},"modified":"2013-09-30T21:17:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T19:17:53","slug":"absa-currie-cup-format-2014-same-old-same-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/absa-currie-cup-format-2014-same-old-same-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Absa Currie Cup format 2014 \u2013 same old same old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsr_floatbts_anchor\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A proposal to expand the Absa Currie Cup Premier Division to eight teams in 2014 was rejected by a Special General Council meeting of South African Rugby Union provinces in <a title=\"Johannesburg\" class=\"aal\" target=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/MyJHB.co.za\">Johannesburg<\/a> on Monday. A second proposal \u2013 dependent on the success of the first \u2013 that the Lions be entrenched in Vodacom Super Rugby for the next two years therefore fell away.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the status quo remains and the team that finishes top of the Absa Currie Cup First Division log in 2013 will play the last-placed team in the Premier Division for the chance of promotion to the 2014 Premier Division.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2013\/09\/one-more-hurdle-in-the-way-of-eastern-province-rugby-and-transformation\/\">Click here for the detailed response from EP Rugby<\/a> who will have to beat the Steval Pumas at the end of this season to get a crack at Top Flight rugby<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>These businesses support <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a> supports PE business:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposal to expand the Absa Currie Cup Premier Division to eight teams in 2014 was rejected by a Special General Council meeting of South African Rugby Union provinces in Johannesburg on Monday. A second proposal \u2013 dependent on the success of the first \u2013 that the Lions be entrenched in Vodacom Super Rugby for [&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":[3330],"tags":[3338,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-23903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-port-elizabeth","7":"tag-mype-co-za","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"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\/23903","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=23903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}