{"id":590089,"date":"2026-08-20T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/590089\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:20:09","slug":"inside-the-black-jersey-a-new-home-for-rugby-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/590089\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside The Black Jersey: a new home for rugby conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s always been a place for the big analysis, and there’s always been a place for the highlights reel. What’s been missing is somewhere fans can just sit in on the conversation: the stories behind the stats, the moments that don’t always make the broadcast, the players talking about the jersey the way we all talk about it around the barbecue.<\/p>\n

That’s the gap Inside the Black Jersey<\/a> is here to fill.<\/p>\n

Launching this week ahead of Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry tour, the new weekly show is hosted by former All Blacks halfback Brad Weber<\/a> and sports broadcaster\u00a0George Harper Jr, two voices who know the game inside out, and who know how to talk about it like fans rather than pundits. Expect the week’s biggest talking points, a dive into the archives, questions pulled straight from the fanbase, and guests dropping in from around the rugby world. It’s less studio panel, more two mates who happen to have unmatched access, pulling up a seat next to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s always been a place for the big analysis, and there’s always been a place for the highlights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-590089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}