{"id":386189,"date":"2026-04-18T18:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/386189\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T18:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:20:09","slug":"crusaders-v-western-force-live-updates-super-rugby-pacific-round-10-in-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/386189\/","title":{"rendered":"Crusaders v Western Force live updates, Super Rugby Pacific round 10 in Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t in the plan or anything with my vision, but I know the responsibility and the legacy that comes with it and I\u2019m pretty excited, to be honest,\u201d Lio-Willie said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt hasn\u2019t really hit me fully yet, but I know I\u2019ve got my job at hand, and I\u2019ve got to lead myself first before I lead others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019ve had great examples first-hand with Davey and the way he leads. That\u2019s the standard I strive to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The Crusaders welcome back winger Macca Springer from a quad injury, while they have confirmed Will Jordan will miss three to five weeks with a calf injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Meanwhile, Zac Lomax will make his first Super Rugby start after being named on the right wing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Lomax came off the bench last week for his debut in a defeat to the Drua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The Crusaders have won seven of their past eight Super Rugby Pacific matches against the Force. That one defeat came in their last meeting in Perth in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt wasn\u2019t in the plan or anything with my vision, but I know the responsibility and the legacy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9055,56380,5760,78,4960,111,139,69,13572,72,18833,6327,213,313,199,274,7245,3457],"class_list":{"0":"post-386189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-9055","9":"tag-crusaders","10":"tag-force","11":"tag-in","12":"tag-live","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-pacific","17":"tag-perth","18":"tag-round","19":"tag-rugby","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-super","22":"tag-take","23":"tag-travel","24":"tag-updates","25":"tag-western"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386189","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=386189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}