{"id":114125,"date":"2019-10-11T15:36:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/11\/ireland-face-samoa-needing-bonus-point-win-amid-concerns-about-pitch\/"},"modified":"2019-10-11T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:36:39","slug":"ireland-face-samoa-needing-bonus-point-win-amid-concerns-about-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=114125","title":{"rendered":"Ireland face Samoa needing bonus-point win amid concerns about pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Fukuoka pitch has been heavily relaid in places\u2022 \u2018We\u2019ve been given assurances that it\u2019s safe to play on\u2019Ireland have expressed concerns about the state of the pitch before Saturday\u2019s decisive Pool A World Cup match with Samoa at the Fukuoka Hakatanomori Stadium.Greg Feek, the scrum coach, revealed World Rugby has given both teams \u201cassurances\u201d the surface remains safe, however. Large swathes of the turf were relaid following Italy\u2019s win over Canada, and then again after France dispatched the USA. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/oct\/11\/ireland-samoa-concerns-pitch-fukuoka-rugby-world-cup\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland face Samoa needing bonus-point win amid concerns about pitch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Fukuoka pitch has been heavily relaid in places\u2022 \u2018We\u2019ve been given assurances that it\u2019s safe to play on\u2019Ireland have expressed concerns about the state of the pitch before Saturday\u2019s decisive Pool A World Cup match with Samoa at the Fukuoka Hakatanomori Stadium.Greg Feek, the scrum coach, revealed World Rugby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}