{"id":240616,"date":"2025-10-25T20:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240616\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T20:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:56:15","slug":"scarlets-pain-continues-in-urc-after-tough-24-hours-off-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240616\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlets pain continues in URC after tough 24-hours off-the-field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>mens<\/p>\n<p>united-rugby-championship<\/p>\n<p>    Taine Plumtree of the Scarlets during the United Rugby Championship match between Hollywoodbets Sharks and Llanelli Scarlets at Hollywoodbets Kings Park Stadium on October 25, 2025 in Durban, South Africa. (Photo by Steve Haag Sports\/Gallo Images\/Getty Images) <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"expand\" src=\"https:\/\/eu-cdn.rugbypass.com\/images\/common-svg\/select-arrow.svg\" height=\"6\" width=\"11\"\/>      https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/news\/scarlets-pain-continues-in-urc-after-tough-24-hours-off-the-field\/    <\/p>\n<p>Scarlets\u2019 wait for their first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/united-rugby-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Rugby Championship<\/a> win of the season continues after they were beaten 29-19 by Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>An entertaining clash saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/vincent-tshituka\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vincent Tshituka<\/a> cross in the corner for Sharks, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/jean-smith-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jean Smith<\/a> was unable to convert and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/scarlets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scarlets<\/a> responded 11 minutes later when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/marnus-van-der-merwe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marnus van der Merwe<\/a> dived over the line and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/sam-costelow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Costelow<\/a> added the extras.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/sharks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sharks<\/a> scored their second try of the game through Manu Tshituka, with Smith converting, but Scarlets immediately pulled one back when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/blair-murray-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blair Murray<\/a> chased a loose ball to ground and Costelow\u2019s kick was successful.<\/p>\n<p>Lee-Marvin Mazibuko\u2019s converted try gave Sharks a 19-14 lead at the break, and although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/tom-rogers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Rogers<\/a> replied for Scarlets, they were unable to go in front when Costelow\u2019s conversion missed.<\/p>\n<p>Siya Kolisi then crossed to bag the bonus point, with Smith adding the extras and the fly-half kicked a penalty in the 63rd minute to extend their advantage further.<\/p>\n<p>Taine Plumtree was sent to the sin bin in the 73rd minute as Scarlets slipped to their fourth defeat from as many games and Sharks earned their first victory from five matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"mens united-rugby-championship Taine Plumtree of the Scarlets during the United Rugby Championship match between Hollywoodbets Sharks and Llanelli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-240616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}