{"id":9898,"date":"2012-04-13T16:10:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/rugby-waratahs-resist-force-fightback-to-win-in-perth\/"},"modified":"2012-04-13T16:10:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:10:48","slug":"rugby-waratahs-resist-force-fightback-to-win-in-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-waratahs-resist-force-fightback-to-win-in-perth\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Waratahs resist Force fightback to win in Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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April 13<\/span> (Reuters) – New South Wales Waratahs held off a
\nstirring Western Force fightback to secure a 23-18 victory in
\ntheir Super Rugby match in Perth on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tries from Tom Kingston and Dave Dennis gave the visitors a
\n17-3 lead but the Force battled back to take the lead briefly
\nand by the end the Waratahs were hanging on.<\/p>\n

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The Force scored two tries through Brett Sheehan and Alfie
\nMafi in the second half but will rue the start they gave to the
\nWaratahs as they fell to yet another close defeat.<\/p>\n

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“It was a tough night,” Waratahs captain Benn Robinson said
\nin a pitchside interview. “Early on in the second half we made
\nsome silly errors and let them back into the game.”<\/p>\n

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The first half featured plenty of tactical kicking,
\ncollapsing scrums and sloppy errors but the Waratahs produced a
\nmoment of genuine class with the opening try in the 24th minute.<\/p>\n

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Coming from a turnover deep in their own half, the ball
\npassed through five pairs of hands before flying winger Kingston
\nraced down the touchline to score his fourth try in the last
\nfour matches.<\/p>\n

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The Waratahs laid siege to the home line in search of a
\nsecond try for a full five minutes before halftime but were
\nunable to breach the Force’s defence and went in 10-3 up.<\/p>\n

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The Force were still a man down two minutes after the
\nrestart having had prop Salesi Ma’afu sin-binned for collapsing
\nthe scrum when flanker Dennis came storming round the front of
\nthe line-out to dash 30 metres to score.<\/p>\n

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The Force finally got across the Waratahs line when
\nscrumhalf Sheehan scored against his former team under a pile of
\nbodies after 51 minutes to cut the deficit to 17-8.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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April 13 (Reuters) – New South Wales Waratahs held off a stirring Western Force fightback to secure a 23-18 victory in their Super Rugby match in Perth on Friday. Tries from Tom Kingston and Dave Dennis gave the visitors a 17-3 lead but the Force battled back to take the lead briefly and by the […]<\/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-9898","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\/9898","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=9898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}