{"id":75524,"date":"2014-11-04T13:43:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T13:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=75524"},"modified":"2014-11-04T13:43:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T13:43:57","slug":"autumn-internationals-strengths-weaknesses-englands-opponents-new-zealand-south-africa-samoa-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/autumn-internationals-strengths-weaknesses-englands-opponents-new-zealand-south-africa-samoa-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn internationals: Strengths and weaknesses of England&#8217;s opponents New Zealand, South Africa, Samoa and Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England take on New Zealand, South Africa, Samoa and Australia in the upcoming Autumn internationals. We take a look at their strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach: Steve Hansen<\/p>\n<p>Captain: Richie McCaw (pictured above)<\/p>\n<p>Strengths: If we start on this, we may never finish: complete mastery of the widest possible skill set; superior fitness; immense physicality; the ability to score clean-cut, uncomplicated tries from distance, apparently with the minimum of effort; a deep-rooted sense of certainty that the only people on earth capable of beating the All Blacks are the All Blacks&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. see more at :- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/rugby\/rugby-union\/international\/autumn-internationals-strengths-and-weaknesses-of-englands-opponents-new-zealand-south-africa-samoa-and-australia-9832036.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/rugby\/rugby-union\/international\/autumn-internationals-strengths-and-weaknesses-of-englands-opponents-new-zealand-south-africa-samoa-and-australia-9832036.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England take on New Zealand, South Africa, Samoa and Australia in the upcoming Autumn internationals. We take a look at their strengths and weaknesses. Head coach: Steve Hansen Captain: Richie McCaw (pictured above) Strengths: If we start on this, we may never finish: complete mastery of the widest possible skill set; superior fitness; immense physicality; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5985,15260,6939,15261,7511,6825],"class_list":["post-75524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-autumn","tag-englands","tag-internationals","tag-opponents","tag-strengths","tag-weaknesses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75526,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75524\/revisions\/75526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}