{"id":11263,"date":"2025-07-21T16:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11263\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:35:11","slug":"army-finish-southern-hemisphere-tour-with-win-over-australian-defence-force-barbarians-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11263\/","title":{"rendered":"Army finish Southern Hemisphere tour with win over Australian Defence Force Barbarians team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Army men&#8217;s rugby union team have finished off their Southern Hemisphere tour with a thumping win over the Australian Defence Force Barbarians in Queensland, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The match was the final clash in a three-legged tour that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forcesnews.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/british-army-mens-rugby-kick-international-tour-impressive-new-zealand-win\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saw the Army play in New Zealand and Fiji.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Australia, the Army were in try-scoring mood with players crossing the try line on eight different occasions in a 56-24 win.<\/p>\n<p>A double from Jack Johnson was the highlight and the other scorers were Mikey McDonald, Senetiki Nayalo, Vereimi Qorowale, Pete Austin,\u00a0Rhys Roberts and Frank Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was also impressive with the boot, delivering five successful conversions with McDonald, Nayalo and Matt Blee also kicking over the posts during the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The British Army men&#8217;s rugby union team have finished off their Southern Hemisphere tour with a thumping win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-11263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}