{"id":444032,"date":"2026-01-29T00:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444032\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T00:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:34:08","slug":"gisbornes-george-bridge-prepares-for-super-rugby-campaign-in-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444032\/","title":{"rendered":"Gisborne\u2019s George Bridge prepares for Super Rugby campaign in Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bridge told Australian media he was initially approached by the Western Force\u2019s New Zealand coach, Simon Cron, and had been living in Perth since November.<\/p>\n

He liked the \u201cexciting change\u201d of playing in the midfield.<\/p>\n

With 19 test caps and 12 tries for the All Blacks, Bridge is one of six players named in the Western Force leadership group.<\/p>\n

He played at the 2019 Rugby World Cup, scoring in a pool match victory over the Springboks, and in a quarter-final victory over Ireland.<\/p>\n

Bridge won the Super Rugby title six times with the Crusaders.<\/p>\n

He played 82 matches for the Crusaders between 2017 and 2022, scoring 37 tries.<\/p>\n

The Force open their Super Rugby Pacific campaign in Perth on February 14 against the Brumbies.<\/p>\n

Their first match against New Zealand opposition is a home match against the Blues on February 21.<\/p>\n

The Force host the Crusaders in Perth on April 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bridge told Australian media he was initially approached by the Western Force\u2019s New Zealand coach, Simon Cron, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[1914,64,63,303,108369,35819,230564,230563,13057,580,22926,21694,3201,230562,230561,4717,32482,22795,46,134619,4718,701,13506,760,85,1643,6618,35022,46840],"class_list":["post-444032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-against","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-black","tag-bridge","tag-campaign","tag-colours","tag-donned","tag-first","tag-for","tag-force","tag-former","tag-george","tag-gisbornebornandbred","tag-gisbornes","tag-in","tag-last","tag-match","tag-perth","tag-prepares","tag-preseason","tag-queensland","tag-reds","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-super","tag-time","tag-weekend","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444032","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=444032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}