{"id":562155,"date":"2026-08-07T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562155\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:08:10","slug":"maa-nonu-named-in-sharks-squad-to-face-all-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562155\/","title":{"rendered":"Ma\u2019a Nonu named in Sharks squad to face All Blacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMa\u2019a Nonu will spend the next few months in Durban as part of a high-performance mentorship programme designed to accelerate the development of the club\u2019s next generation of players by exposing them to one of the most successful leaders in world rugby,\u201d the Sharks said after announcing his role last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNonu joins the club primarily in a mentorship and leadership capacity, working alongside the coaching staff to support player development and strengthen the club\u2019s high-performance culture,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Sharks team to face the All Blacks<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">15 Zekhethelo Siyaya, 14 Donovan Don, 13 Jurenzo Julius, 12 Murray Koster, 11 Litelihle Bester, 10 Vusi Moyo, 9 Bradley Davids, 8 Nick Hatton (captain), 7 Manu Tshituka, 6 Phepsi Buthelezi, 5 Emile van Heerden, 4 Hendre Stassen, 3 Vincent Koch, 2 Eduan Swart, 1 Nemo Roelofse<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Replacements: 16 Liam van Wyk, 17 Rambo Kubekha, 18 Simphiwe Ngobese, 19 Vincent Tshituka, 20 Matt Romao, 21 Ivan van Zyl, 22 Luan Giliomee, 23 Ma\u2019a Nonu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMa\u2019a Nonu will spend the next few months in Durban as part of a high-performance mentorship programme designed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,9092,5263,682,31867,8136,3019,9635,1872,2740,16773,78,46597,10136,111,139,46598,69,183683,14861,6102,213,1557,7187,61,41553,1533],"class_list":["post-562155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-against","tag-all","tag-being","tag-bench","tag-blacks","tag-clash","tag-dave","tag-face","tag-former","tag-great","tag-in","tag-maa","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nonu","tag-nz","tag-rennies","tag-sharks","tag-side","tag-sports","tag-squad","tag-team","tag-to","tag-wednesdays","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562155","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=562155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}