{"id":304,"date":"2026-07-21T08:22:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/?p=304"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:22:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:22:39","slug":"ep-deserve-our-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/ep-deserve-our-support\/","title":{"rendered":"EP Deserve Our Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And for this reason: Under the guidance of former Springbok coach Allister Coetzee, EP have emerged as one of the competition&#8217;s most improved sides. The Elephants have displayed resilience and consistency throughout the campaign, earning several important victories to secure a home play-off in this year&#8217;s Currie Cup competition.The Carling Currie Cup reaches a crossroads this weekend when the Premier Division kicks off, with the defending champion Suzuki Griquas starting their campaign in Cape Town, and four of the six First Division teams fight it out for a spot in the final.On Saturday at 15h00, the two teams to contest the Carling Currie Cup First Division final will be determined. Eastern Province host the Valke in Gqeberha, and the Dotsure SWD Eagles welcome the Leopards to George in the semi-finals. The Griffons, last year\u2019s champions, failed to qualify for the playoffs.Although SWD suffered a narrow 52-45 defeat to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Full Article:<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/mynmb.co.za\/ep-deserve-our-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/mynmb.co.za\/ep-deserve-our-support\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCgzgeTm3pKPjkFy4WHrH8xA\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCgzgeTm3pKPjkFy4WHrH8xA\/<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Contact Alan Straton<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MyPE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/MyPE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alanstraton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alanstraton\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/MyPEco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/facebook.com\/MyPEco<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanstraton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanstraton\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><strong>&#8216;Advertise&#8217; Your Article for free:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/submit\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a> to drop a link and short description to your published work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And for this reason: Under the guidance of former Springbok coach Allister Coetzee, EP have emerged as one of the competition&#8217;s most improved sides. The Elephants have displayed resilience and consistency throughout the campaign, earning several important victories to secure a home play-off in this year&#8217;s Currie Cup competition.The Carling Currie Cup reaches a crossroads &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12],"class_list":["type-post","category-journalists","tag-mynmb","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/journalists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}