{"id":6989,"date":"2012-01-12T20:36:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T18:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/rugby-newcastle-appoint-gold-as-director-of-rugby\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T20:36:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T18:36:57","slug":"rugby-newcastle-appoint-gold-as-director-of-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-newcastle-appoint-gold-as-director-of-rugby\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Newcastle appoint Gold as director of rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Jan 12 (Reuters) &#8211; South African Gary Gold has<br \/>\nbeen appointed director of rugby at struggling English<br \/>\nPremiership club Newcastle Falcons, the club said in a statement<br \/>\non Thursday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gold, South Africa&#8217;s forwards coach for the past four years,<br \/>\nreplaced Alan Tait who Newcastle said was taking a break from<br \/>\nrugby. Former England defence coach Mike Ford will assume the<br \/>\nsame role at Kingston Park.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Newcastle are currently bottom of the Premiership.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Club owner Semore Kurdi said: &#8220;I would like to welcome Gary<br \/>\nand Mike to the club. They will be a great asset alongside the<br \/>\nexisting coaching team and this is a demonstration of our intent<br \/>\nto fight back and secure our Aviva Premiership status.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Martyn Herman, editing by Ed Osmond)<\/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>LONDON Jan 12 (Reuters) &#8211; South African Gary Gold has been appointed director of rugby at struggling English Premiership club Newcastle Falcons, the club said in a statement on Thursday. Gold, South Africa&#8217;s forwards coach for the past four years, replaced Alan Tait who Newcastle said was taking a break from rugby. Former England defence [&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-6989","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\/6989","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=6989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}