{"id":335388,"date":"2025-12-08T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335388\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:58:08","slug":"ulster-rugby-herring-a-doubt-for-cardiff-clash-but-izuchukwu-in-line-for-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335388\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster Rugby: Herring a doubt for Cardiff clash but Izuchukwu in line for return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rob Herring is an injury doubt for Ulster&#8217;s European Challenge Cup trip to face Cardiff on Saturday [20:00].<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 35-year-old hooker suffered a knee injury in the first half of the 61-7 victory over Racing 92 at Affidea Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Herring scored Ulster&#8217;s go-ahead try late in the first half, but was replaced at the break by Tom Stewart and will have an MRI scan to determine the severity of the injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In better news for Richie Murphy&#8217;s side, Cormac Izuchukwu is back in full training and in contention to feature after his recovery from a foot injury picked up in the united Rugby Championship win over the Bulls in early October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old forward&#8217;s progress had been monitored in recent weeks, but is now set to make his return for the trip to Cardiff Arms Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Carson, Lorcan McLoughlin and Sean Reffell are also back in full training and the trio are all in contention for game-time this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Herring is an injury doubt for Ulster&#8217;s European Challenge Cup trip to face Cardiff on Saturday [20:00].&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-335388","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\/335388","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=335388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}