{"id":7523,"date":"2012-01-31T09:21:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T07:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/rugby-uncompromising-elsom-takes-over-as-waratahs-captain\/"},"modified":"2012-01-31T09:21:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T07:21:27","slug":"rugby-uncompromising-elsom-takes-over-as-waratahs-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-uncompromising-elsom-takes-over-as-waratahs-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Uncompromising Elsom takes over as Waratahs captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">SYDNEY<\/span> Jan 31 (Reuters) &#8211; Wallabies&#8217; flanker Rocky Elsom<br \/>\nwas appointed captain of Super Rugby side New South Wales<br \/>\nWaratahs on Tuesday but quickly made it clear that he did not<br \/>\nview easy relations with the media as a priority in the job.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old had a famously cold relationship with the<br \/>\nlocal media as captain of Australia and reports suggested that<br \/>\nit had contributed to his being replaced by James Horwill on the<br \/>\neve of the Wallabies&#8217; departure for the World Cup last year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Returning to Sydney after two years with the ACT Brumbies in<br \/>\nCanberra, Elsom was as uncompromising as ever at his unveiling<br \/>\nwhen asked by a Fox Sports TV reporter about being dropped as<br \/>\nWallabies skipper.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How are they connected, sorry?&#8221; he asked in his familiar<br \/>\nwhisper, the furrow on his brow deepening.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that this is a totally different gig,&#8221; added the<br \/>\n71-cap Wallaby.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year might not have gone the way I necessarily had<br \/>\nplanned it but I think it worked okay for us and Kev (Horwill)<br \/>\ndid a good job for us so I&#8217;m not too upset about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Waratahs coach Michael Foley said the playing staff had<br \/>\nbeen consulted over who should replace former Wallabies flanker<br \/>\nPhil Waugh as captain.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The experience that they&#8217;ve had with him as captain of the<br \/>\nnational team stood him in good stead,&#8221; Foley said.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY Jan 31 (Reuters) &#8211; Wallabies&#8217; flanker Rocky Elsom was appointed captain of Super Rugby side New South Wales Waratahs on Tuesday but quickly made it clear that he did not view easy relations with the media as a priority in the job. The 28-year-old had a famously cold relationship with the local media as [&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-7523","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\/7523","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=7523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}