{"id":523907,"date":"2026-03-07T04:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523907\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:10:09","slug":"live-highlanders-v-western-force-super-rugby-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523907\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Highlanders v Western Force &#8211; Super Rugby Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4JS6YLP_HIGHLANDERS_FORCR_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"Highlanders v Western Force graphic.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: Photosport\n<\/p>\n<p>The Highlanders are coming off back-to-back defeats, after their stunning round one upset of the Crusaders in Super Rugby Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>They face a Western Force outfit on Saturday afternoon beaming, after picking up their first win of the season against Moana Pasifika.<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff is at 4.35pm.<\/p>\n<p>Highlanders: 1. Ethan de Groot (CC) 2. Jack Taylor 3. Angus Ta&#8217;avao 4. Oliver Haig 5. Mitch Dunshea 6. Te Kamaka Howden 7. Veveni Lasaqa 8. Nikora Broughton 9. Folau Fakatava 10. Cameron Millar 11. Jona Nareki 12. Timoci Tavatavanawai (CC) 13. Jonah Lowe 14. Caleb Tangitau 15. Jacob Ratumaitavuki-Kneepkens<\/p>\n<p>Bench: 16. Soane Vikena 17. Daniel Lienert-Brown 18. Sosefo Kautai 19. Will Stodart 20. Sean Withy 21. Adam Lennox 22. Reesjan Pasitoa 23. Tanielu Tele&#8217;a<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Photosport The Highlanders are coming off back-to-back defeats, after their stunning round one upset of the Crusaders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,1590,63,1589,44,1591,1588,1586,1587,760,85],"class_list":["post-523907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-audio","tag-australia","tag-current-affairs","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523907","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=523907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}