{"id":2583,"date":"2014-06-07T20:01:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T13:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2014-06-07T20:01:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T13:01:47","slug":"first-test-australia-v-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/rugby\/first-test-australia-v-france\/","title":{"rendered":"First Test: Australia v France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brisbane &#8211; Australia scythed through a porous French defence to score seven tries and a 50-23 victory over the visitors in their first test of a three-game series at Lang Park in Brisbane on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Australia put the game beyond doubt in the first half with tries to Israel Folau, Adam Ashley-Cooper, Michael Hooper and Matt Toomua to give them a 29-9 lead at the break before Nick Cummins, Kurtley Beale and Pat McCabe all crossed in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard Foley contributed 15 points from six conversions and a penalty for the hosts, who may have lost captain Stephen Moore for a substantial period after he suffered a knee injury in the first minute.<\/p>\n<p>Australia held a 50-9 lead before France replacement Morgan Parra scored a late consolation try, while their scrum earned a penalty try, both of which that flyhalf Frederic Michalak converted to go with his early dropgoal and two penalties for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/rugby-union\/rugby-union-match-centre\/australia-v-france-first-test-20140607-39pyv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport \u2013 Sport News <a title=\"Rugby\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/category\/rugby\/\">Rugby<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brisbane &#8211; Australia scythed through a porous French defence to score seven tries and a 50-23 victory over the visitors in their first test of a three-game series at Lang Park in Brisbane on Saturday. Australia put the game beyond doubt in the first half with tries to Israel Folau, Adam Ashley-Cooper, Michael Hooper and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[651,648,657,331,633,660,655,649,653,652,659,30,654,656,1268,305,114,120,80,188,650,658],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-adam-ashley-cooper","tag-australia","tag-bernard-foley","tag-brisbane","tag-france","tag-frederic-michalak","tag-kurtley-beale","tag-lang-park-in-brisbane","tag-matt-toomua","tag-michael-hooper","tag-morgan-parra","tag-news","tag-nick-cummins","tag-pat-mccabe","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-srael-folau","tag-stephen-moore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}