{"id":2441,"date":"2014-06-02T17:28:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T10:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2014-06-02T17:28:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T10:28:04","slug":"blues-hamper-hurricanes-title-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/rugby\/blues-hamper-hurricanes-title-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues hamper Hurricanes title hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blues gave the Hurricanes hopes of reaching the play offs a severe blow when they beat the Wellington side 37-24 with a bonus point.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues are realistically out of contention for the play offs but look to have delivered a severe blow to the Hurricanes play off hopes as they have just two matches left to secure a place in the play offs.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes have matches against the Crusaders and the Chiefs remaining &#8211; both former champions and both still looking to secure their own place in the play offs.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically the Crusaders will arguably benefit the most from the result as it takes off some of the pressure that the Hurricanes had been applying.<\/p>\n<p>The Crusaders also benefited from the Chiefs loss to the Waratahs earlier as that too relieved some pressure on the seven time Super Rugby champions&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.superxv.com\/42717\/1\/blues-give-hurricanes-title-hopes-a-severe-blow#.U4xQbyhfYyc\" title=\"Read more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today \u2013 Sport \u2013 Rugby news \u2013 Blues vs Hurricanes <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blues gave the Hurricanes hopes of reaching the play offs a severe blow when they beat the Wellington side 37-24 with a bonus point. The Blues are realistically out of contention for the play offs but look to have delivered a severe blow to the Hurricanes play off hopes as they have just two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[323,324,325,326,302,303,310,311,30,305,114,120,80,188,283,327,300,301],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-blues","tag-blues-rugby","tag-chiefs","tag-chiefs-rugby","tag-crusaders","tag-crusaders-rugby","tag-hurricanes","tag-hurricanes-rugby","tag-news","tag-rugby-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-super-rugby","tag-super-rugby-champions","tag-waratahs","tag-waratahs-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}