{"id":23622,"date":"2026-02-11T12:23:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/japan-coach-highlights-super-rugbys-fall-from-grace\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:23","slug":"japan-coach-highlights-super-rugbys-fall-from-grace","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/japan-coach-highlights-super-rugbys-fall-from-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u00a0coach highlights Super Rugby&#8217;s fall from grace\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The southern hemisphere&#8217;s premier club competition used to be the breeding ground for innovation and set trends as to how the international game would be played, according to Jones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">However, that is no longer the case with the competition&#8217;s status declining along with their influence on World Rugby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The All Blacks dominated the international scene between 2011 and 2015 in particular; however, their authority in the Test scene has slipped more recently with several first defeats to the likes of Ireland and Argentina, while they&#8217;ve struggled against France and South Africa at times too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23623,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-23622","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Japan Head Coach, Eddie Jones believes Super Rugby isn't the competition it used to be and that the All Blacks have suffered because of its decline in quality","published_date":"2026-02-11 00:00:00","news_description":"Japan Head Coach, Eddie Jones believes Super Rugby isn't the competition it used to be and that the All Blacks have suffered because of its decline in quality","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26531,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23622\/revisions\/26531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}