{"id":321909,"date":"2026-03-10T05:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/321909\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T05:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:41:09","slug":"rugby-crusaders-teammates-trade-punches-as-tensions-spill-over-at-training-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/321909\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby: Crusaders teammates trade punches as tensions spill over at training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSo there should be,\u201d Penney said when asked if there was tension in the camp after the 29-13 defeat to the Blues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt was a really lovely sight to see, actually. It is a reflection of how much it means. The boys aren\u2019t happy with the performances and the outcomes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cVery proud young men are going to come up against each other, and create a bit of sandpaper from time to time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBut it\u2019s not a thing that is going to affect negatively. We are all over it, the boys are fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Penney expected there could be more scuffles at training in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s not the first time and it won\u2019t be the last.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">-RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSo there should be,\u201d Penney said when asked if there was tension in the camp after the 29-13&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[806,1975,56380,111,139,69,1523,85935,6327,48216,213,70465,10115,584,8812],"class_list":["post-321909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-as","tag-at","tag-crusaders","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-punches","tag-rugby","tag-spill","tag-sports","tag-teammates","tag-tensions","tag-trade","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}