{"id":1683,"date":"2014-07-24T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westcoastrfu.com\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2014-07-24T17:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T05:00:13","slug":"young-west-coast-rugby-player-chosen-as-flag-bearer-for-super-rugby-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/2014\/07\/24\/young-west-coast-rugby-player-chosen-as-flag-bearer-for-super-rugby-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Young West Coast Rugby Player Chosen as Flag Bearer for Super Rugby Semi-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westcoastrfu.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/photo1crus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1684\" src=\"http:\/\/westcoastrfu.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/photo1crus.jpg\" alt=\"photo1crus\" width=\"307\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo1crus.jpg 341w, https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo1crus-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/a><strong>Wests RFC player 9 year old\u00a0Connor Greig from Hokitika<\/strong>, has won the chance to represent the West Coast as a flag bearer at\u00a0this Saturday night&#8217;s\u00a0massive Super Rugby Semi-Final, between the Crusaders v Sharks\u00a0at AMI Stadium in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Connor will join fellow junior rugby representatives from all other Crusaders provinces as flag bearers in front of the players tunnel, as the Crusaders and Sharks players\u00a0storm out onto the AMI turf for what should be an enthralling\u00a0semi-final encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Connor&#8217;s Mother Cindy entered him into\u00a0a competiton on the Crusaders facebook page\u00a0to find the flag bearers, and as a lucky winner he&#8217;ll also get two tickets to the game, get\u00a0to watch the teams warm up from the side lines, as well as\u00a0be given\u00a0a special behind the scenes look at AMI Stadium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Huge Crusader fan Connor said he was thrilled to win the competiton to get to be a part of the big day, as well as to\u00a0see his heroes play up close. &#8220;I just want to thank my Mum for entering me in the competition and to thank the Crusaders for the awesome prize&#8221;. Connor will be\u00a0accompanied on the day at the game\u00a0by\u00a0his granddad and fellow Crusaders supporter, Kevin Greig.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westcoastrfu.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/crusaders12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1685\" src=\"http:\/\/westcoastrfu.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/crusaders12.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"crusaders12\" width=\"236\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/crusaders12.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/crusaders12-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/crusaders12-1024x705.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/crusaders12-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/crusaders12-1536x1057.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wests RFC player 9 year old\u00a0Connor Greig from Hokitika, has won the chance to represent the West Coast as a flag bearer at\u00a0this Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}