{"id":537099,"date":"2026-03-13T05:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537099\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T05:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:19:07","slug":"western-force-finish-new-zealand-tour-against-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537099\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Force finish New Zealand tour against Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Western Force are out to finish off their New Zealand tour on a high as they face the Hurricanes in Napier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Simon Cron&#8217;s side narrowly went down to the Highlanders in Dunedin, unable to come back from a late try against the hosts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/watch\/sport\/rugby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Watch every second of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Kurtley Beale is one of several new faces to the starting side, hunting for their second victory of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Meanwhile, the Hurricanes are riding high after a dominant win over the NSW Waratahs in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">All Black Ruben Love is set for his return from injury, named to come off the bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">FOLLOW ALL THE ACTION IN THE LIVE BLOG BELOW OR THE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugby.com.au\/match-centre\/205\/2026\/949228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">MATCH CENTRE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HURRICANES v WESTERN FORCE TEAMS<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">HURRICANES (1-15):\u00a0Pouri Rakete-Stones, Jacob Devery, Pasilio Tosi, Caleb Delany, Isaia Walker-Leawere, Brad Shields, Du&#8217;Plessis Kirifi (co-c), Devan Flanders, Cam Roigard, Callum Harkin, Fehi Fineanganofo, Jordie Barrett (co-c), Jone Rova, Bailyn Sullivan, Josh Moorby<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Replacements:\u00a0Asafo Aumua, Xavier Numia, Tyrel Lomax, Warner Dearns, Brayden Iose, Jordi Viljoen, Ruben Love, Riley Higgins<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">FORCE (1-15):\u00a0Tom Robertson, Brandon Paenga-Amosa, Harry Johnson-Holmes, Jeremy Williams (c), Darcy Swain, Will Harris, Carlo Tizzano, Nick Champion de Crespigny, Henry Robertson, Ben Donaldson, Bayley Kuenzle, Kurtley Beale, George Bridge, Darby Lancaster, Max Burey<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Replacements:\u00a0Nic Dolly, Marley Pearce, Misinale Epenisa, Franco Molina, Lopeti Faifua, Nathan Hastie, Taj Annan, Hamish Stewart<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Referee:\u00a0Todd Petrie<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Assistant Referees:\u00a0Fraser Hannon, Ben Woolerton<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">TMO:\u00a0Glenn Newman<\/p>\n<p>HOW TO WATCH HURRICANES v WESTERN FORCE<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Hurricanes&#8217; clash with the Force will be shown LIVE on Stan Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Coverage will be live and ad-free on Stan Sport, slated to start at 4:30 pm with kickoff expected at 5:05 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Western Force are out to finish off their New Zealand tour on a high as they face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,10569,760,85,48013,11229],"class_list":["post-537099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-hurricanes","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-super-rugby-pacific","tag-western-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537099","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=537099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}