{"id":3057,"date":"2015-09-02T15:28:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T08:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2015-09-02T15:28:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T08:28:13","slug":"eastern-province-kings-watson-shrugs-off-player-mutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/rugby\/eastern-province-kings-watson-shrugs-off-player-mutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Province Kings\u2019 Watson shrugs off player mutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crisis talks between striking Eastern Province Kings players and SA Rugby Players\u2019 Association (Sarpa) officials will take place in Port Elizabeth on Wednesday morning in a bid to defuse a simmering pay dispute.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday\u201a Kings players had a meeting to discuss the non-payment of their salaries and decided against training.<\/p>\n<p>This has placed Eastern Province\u2019s Currie Cup match against the Lions on Saturday in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>EP Kings president Cheeky Watson shrugged off the player mutiny\u201a saying he was \u201cextremely happy the players have taken a day off\u201d after a string of tough games. &#8211; The Herald<\/p>\n<p>Source: RDM News Wire.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport \u2013 <a title=\"Rugby\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/category\/rugby\/\">Rugby<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crisis talks between striking Eastern Province Kings players and SA Rugby Players\u2019 Association (Sarpa) officials will take place in Port Elizabeth on Wednesday morning in a bid to defuse a simmering pay dispute. On Tuesday\u201a Kings players had a meeting to discuss the non-payment of their salaries and decided against training. This has placed Eastern [&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":[1226,1233,1364,1365,291,30,1234,1366,1268,305,1362,1363,114,120,80,188],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-currie-cup","tag-eastern-province-kings","tag-kings","tag-kings-rugby","tag-lions","tag-news","tag-port-elizabeth","tag-president-cheeky-watson","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-news","tag-sa-rugby-players-association","tag-sarpa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","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=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}