{"id":616972,"date":"2026-04-19T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616972\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:18:12","slug":"gautengers-sparkle-as-coastal-sides-falter-in-vodacom-urc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616972\/","title":{"rendered":"Gautengers sparkle as coastal sides falter in Vodacom URC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>19 Apr 2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Gautengers sparkle as coastal sides falter in Vodacom URC\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"ArticleHero_image__RqLNq\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776597491_513_image.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Competitions<\/p>\n<p>The Fidelity Securedrive Lions and Vodacom Bulls made strong statements of their intent in a round of mixed fortunes for the South African teams in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship as they achieved significant victories, while the DHL Stormers and Hollywoodbets Sharks stumbled in matches that could have big implications in their campaigns.<a class=\"Shop_btnYellow__EsqCB\" href=\"\"\/><a class=\"Shop_btnDark__98lz6\" href=\"\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Farrow-left.svg&amp;w=96&amp;q=75\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Farrow-right.svg&amp;w=96&amp;q=75\"\/><img alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Fvectors%2FVector1.svg&amp;w=3840&amp;q=75\"\/><img alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Fvectors%2FVector2.svg&amp;w=3840&amp;q=75\"\/><img alt=\"Springboks\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"294\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"Newsletter_logo__0QikA\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2FSpringboks-logo.svg&amp;w=750&amp;q=75\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"saru-logo\" width=\"220\" height=\"185\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"footer-logo\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Flogo.svg&amp;w=640&amp;q=75\"\/><\/a>\u00a9 2026 SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY \u00a0|\u00a0 PICTURES \u00a9 GALLO IMAGESBack to Top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"19 Apr 2026 Competitions The Fidelity Securedrive Lions and Vodacom Bulls made strong statements of their intent in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-616972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616972","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=616972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}