{"id":3288,"date":"2016-07-19T05:17:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T03:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2016-07-19T05:18:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T03:18:12","slug":"lions-name-25-man-player-squad-for-crusaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/rugby\/lions-name-25-man-player-squad-for-crusaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions name 25 man player squad for Crusaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 25 Lions players have been named from which the 23 will be selected for Saturday\u2019s match in their Super Rugby quarter-final against the Crusaders at Ellis Park.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Whitley will undergo a fitness test on Thursday before the final call will be made on his availability.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a curtain raiser at 1.30pm on Saturday when the President\u2019s League final takes place between Jabulani and Southern Knights. The match against the Crusaders kicks off at 4.30pm. Gates open at 1pm.<\/p>\n<p>Lions squad: Dylan Smith, Corn\u00e9 Fourie, Julian Redelinghuys, Jacques van Rooyen, Akker van der Merwe, Malcolm Marx, Franco Mostert, Andries Ferreira, Lourens Erasmus, Warren Whiteley, Ruan Ackermann, Warwick Tecklenbrug, Jaco Kriel, Cyle Brink, Faf de Klerl, Ross Cronj\u00e9, Elton Jantjies, Jaco van der Walt, Rohan Janse van Rensburg, Courtnall Skosan, Ruan Combrinck, Andries Coetzee, Sylvian Mahuza,Howard Mnisi, Lionel Mapoe <\/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>A group of 25 Lions players have been named from which the 23 will be selected for Saturday\u2019s match in their Super Rugby quarter-final against the Crusaders at Ellis Park. Warren Whitley will undergo a fitness test on Thursday before the final call will be made on his availability. There will be a curtain raiser [&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":[1692,1709,1695,1689,1707,302,1701,1688,1714,1704,1702,1694,1711,1715,1700,1705,1691,1690,1712,1713,1687,1696,1693,30,1706,1703,1698,1708,1268,305,114,120,1716,80,188,283,1685,1710,1697,1699],"class_list":["post-3288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-akker-van-der-merwe","tag-andries-coetzee","tag-andries-ferreira","tag-corne-fourie","tag-courtnall-skosan","tag-crusaders","tag-cyle-brink","tag-dylan-smith","tag-ellis-park","tag-elton-jantjies","tag-faf-de-klerl","tag-franco-mostert","tag-howard-mnisi","tag-jabulani","tag-jaco-kriel","tag-jaco-van-der-walt","tag-jacques-van-rooyen","tag-julian-redelinghuys","tag-lionel-mapoe","tag-lions-squad","tag-lions-vs-crusaders","tag-lourens-erasmus","tag-malcolm-marx","tag-news","tag-rohan-janse-van-rensburg","tag-ross-cronje","tag-ruan-ackermann","tag-ruan-combrinck","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-southern-knights","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-super-rugby","tag-super-rugby-quarter-final","tag-sylvian-mahuza","tag-warren-whiteley","tag-warwick-tecklenbrug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288","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=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}