{"id":666250,"date":"2026-05-12T15:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/666250\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:29:08","slug":"urc-cardiff-lock-josh-mcnally-to-miss-league-finale-against-stormers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/666250\/","title":{"rendered":"URC: Cardiff lock Josh McNally to miss league finale against Stormers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After seven months of league action, the race for the URC top eight has gone the distance with five teams battling for four spots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Glasgow, Stormers, Leinster and Bulls having booked their play-off places, Lions, Munster, Cardiff and Ulster are currently in the remaining spots with ninth-placed Connacht chasing hard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff are hoping not to miss out on a play-off spot again after being pipped by the Scarlets by a point last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victory against second-placed Stormers &#8211; which would be Cardiff&#8217;s 11th of the league campaign &#8211; would seal a play-off place, regardless of what Connacht manage at Edinburgh or Ulster achieve at home to Glasgow on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff&#8217;s own home record has been impressive this season, having won nine of 10 games at the Arms Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After seven months of league action, the race for the URC top eight has gone the distance with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-666250","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\/666250","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=666250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}