{"id":7539,"date":"2012-01-31T21:23:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T19:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/southern-kings-vs-blue-bulls\/"},"modified":"2012-01-31T21:23:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T19:23:17","slug":"southern-kings-vs-blue-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/southern-kings-vs-blue-bulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Kings vs Blue Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><\/p>\n<p>Rugby in the Eastern Cape has once again become the tallest poppy in the field with the announcement that the <a title=\"Southern Kings\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/S_,045_From_Saddles_to_Synthetics\/Sports_Control_Bodies\/eastern_province_rugby_14406.html\">Southern Kings<\/a> will be playing Super Rugby in 2013. Many is the \u2018foreign\u2019 rugby supporter that believes that <a title=\"Eastern Province rugby\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/S_,045_From_Saddles_to_Synthetics\/Sports_Control_Bodies\/eastern_province_rugby_14406.html\">Eastern Province rugby<\/a> doesn\u2019t deserve this chance. And, many teams will be travelling down to our neck of the woods to try and show <a title=\"South African Rugby Union\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rugbysearch.co.za\/tag\/saru\/\" target=\"_blank\">SARU<\/a> that they \u2018made a mistake\u2019. No matter \u2013 this is frontier country this, we know how to fight battles and win.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike last year, I am expecting the number of black and red supporters to surpass the number of blue supporters on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Get your ticket from <a href=\"http:\/\/online.computicket.com\/web\/event\/southern_kings_vs_bulls\/520580923\/referer:highlights-index-73-0-0-grid\" target=\"_blank\">Computicket here<\/a>. Adults \u2013 R70.00 and Children \u2013 R30.00. You could also make sure that you are on the MyPE Massive Deals e-mail list (scroll down to fill in form) to be in the running to get free tickets to the game on 4 February 2012 \u2013 kickoff at 5:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The <a title=\"Southern Kings\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/S_,045_From_Saddles_to_Synthetics\/Sports_Control_Bodies\/eastern_province_rugby_14406.html\">Southern Kings<\/a> have three massive Super Rugby friendlies coming up:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 February \u2013 Blue Bulls at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium<\/li>\n<li>11 February \u2013 Stormers at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium<\/li>\n<li>17 February \u2013 Sharks at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>With 6 players out for various reasons coach Alan Solomons announced his team for Saturday\u2019s game as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Jaco Engels<\/li>\n<li>Hannes Franklin<\/li>\n<li>Clint Newland<\/li>\n<li>Darron Nell \u2013 his 1st stint at lock<\/li>\n<li>David Bullbring<\/li>\n<li>Devin Oosthuizen<\/li>\n<li>Mpho Mbiyoza<\/li>\n<li>Luke Watson \u2013 Captain<\/li>\n<li>Danie Faasen<\/li>\n<li>Louis Strydom<\/li>\n<li>Marcello Sampson<\/li>\n<li>Wayne Stevens<\/li>\n<li>Monty Dummond \u2013 his 1st match at centre<\/li>\n<li>Norman Nelson<\/li>\n<li>Mzwandile Stick<\/li>\n<li>Bobby Dyer<\/li>\n<li>Zane Killian<\/li>\n<li>Andre Schlechter<\/li>\n<li>Wayne van Heerden<\/li>\n<li>Reynier Barnardo<\/li>\n<li>Jacques Engelbrecht<\/li>\n<li>Dustin Jinka<\/li>\n<li>Earl Rose<\/li>\n<li>Tiger Mangweni<\/li>\n<li>Shane Gates<\/li>\n<li>Jaco Bekker<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Let the rugby games begin!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fill in the form below for a crack at a couple of free tickets to the game:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/mc_custom_border_hdr --><br \/>\n<!-- \/mc_signup_container --><\/p>\n<p>Visit the new <strong><a title=\"Contact Eastern Province Rugby a friendly Port Elizabeth Business\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/S_,045_From_Saddles_to_Synthetics\/Sports_Control_Bodies\/eastern_province_rugby_14406.html\">Eastern Province Rugby<\/a><\/strong> web site.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rugby in the Eastern Cape has once again become the tallest poppy in the field with the announcement that the Southern Kings will be playing Super Rugby in 2013. Many is the \u2018foreign\u2019 rugby supporter that believes that Eastern Province rugby doesn\u2019t deserve this chance. And, many teams will be travelling down to our neck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-7539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","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\/7539","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}