{"id":942610,"date":"2026-10-27T10:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/942610\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T10:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:14:09","slug":"united-rugby-championship-ulsters-juarno-augustus-relishing-south-africa-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/942610\/","title":{"rendered":"United Rugby Championship: Ulster&#8217;s Juarno Augustus relishing South Africa homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ulster remain without a victory in their URC campaign to date, their 34-26  defeat by the Bulls in Pretoria extending their winless run in the competition this season to four games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think huge things need to change. It&#8217;s just a bounce of the ball, just small things that we need to work on and get right,&#8221; added Augustus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ulster and the Stormers played out a pulsating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c62ej8109w7o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">38-38 draw<\/a> in Belfast last term but the number eight is hoping Richie Murphy&#8217;s side can go one better on Saturday (12:45 GMT) against a Stormers outfit who have won three and lost one of their four URC matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s at their home this time so we need to be sharper, need to be ready for what they&#8217;re going to bring. From minute one to minute 80, we need to give it our best. That&#8217;s what we are going after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They have a lot of dangerous players who can make anything happen in a second. We need to be aware of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Richie and his coaching staff gave us some detail on how they play and it&#8217;s up to us now to go out and execute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We just need to be on our game every single moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster remain without a victory in their URC campaign to date, their 34-26 defeat by the Bulls in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-942610","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\/942610","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=942610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}