{"id":7913,"date":"2024-12-09T20:21:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T20:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/josh-van-der-flier-ireland-forward-wins-autumn-nations-player-of-the-series-award\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T20:21:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T20:21:23","slug":"josh-van-der-flier-ireland-forward-wins-autumn-nations-player-of-the-series-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/josh-van-der-flier-ireland-forward-wins-autumn-nations-player-of-the-series-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh van der Flier: Ireland forward wins Autumn Nations player of the series award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ireland&#8217;s Josh van der Flier has been named the Autumn Nations player of the series. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old Leinster back row started all four of Ireland&#8217;s November Tests, which included a defeat by New Zealand and wins over Argentina, Fiji and Australia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Van der Flier, the world player of the year in 2022, scored tries in the All Blacks, Fiji and Australia games and continued his fine form by scoring in Leinster&#8217;s Champions Cup win over Bristol on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Van der Flier edged out South Africa winger Cheslin Kolbe in the fans&#8217; vote. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Wicklow native has earned 68 caps for Ireland having made his debut in 2016. He has won three Six Nations titles, including the 2018 and 2023 Grand Slams. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/c983yvjln52o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&#8217;s Josh van der Flier has been named the Autumn Nations player of the series. The 31-year-old Leinster back row started all four of Ireland&#8217;s November Tests, which included a defeat by New Zealand and wins over Argentina, Fiji and Australia. Van der Flier, the world player of the year in 2022, scored tries in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7915,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions\/7915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}