{"id":621494,"date":"2026-04-21T13:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/621494\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:57:14","slug":"united-rugby-championship-ulster-hit-by-injury-crisis-before-trip-munster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/621494\/","title":{"rendered":"United Rugby Championship: Ulster hit by injury crisis before trip Munster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ulster continue to count the cost of Friday&#8217;s 29-21 defeat by Leinster in the United Rugby Championship [URC] with six players added to the injury list for this Saturday&#8217;s trip to face Munster at Thomond Park [17:30 BST].<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Angus Bell (foot), Scott Wilson (ankle), Tom O&#8217;Toole (hand), James Hume (neck), Jude Postlethwaite (hand) and Bryn Ward (shoulder) have all been ruled out after picking up injuries against Leo Cullen&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They join a list of unavilable players that already includes Nick Timoney (hip), James McNabney (knee), Rob Herring (calf), Robert Baloucoune (elbow), Rory McGuire (shoulder) and Stewart Moore (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In better news for head coach Richie Murphy, Michael Lowry has returned to full training and his availability for the trip to Limerick will be assessed throughout the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ulster dropped to fifth in the URC standings following last week&#8217;s defeat, one point above Munster as the season enters its final three rounds of games before the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murphy&#8217;s side also have a home European Challenge Cup semi-final against Exeter Chiefs to look forward to on Saturday, 2 May as they seek to end their 20-year wait for silverware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster continue to count the cost of Friday&#8217;s 29-21 defeat by Leinster in the United Rugby Championship [URC]&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-621494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621494","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=621494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}