{"id":14520,"date":"2025-09-11T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/14520\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:30:08","slug":"the-penny-pinching-has-been-going-on-for-years-conor-murray-criticises-munsters-dud-signings-coaching-churn-and-cut-backs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/14520\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The penny-pinching has been going on for years\u2019 \u2013 Conor Murray criticises Munster\u2019s \u2018dud\u2019 signings, coaching churn and cut-backs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Munster's Conor Murray in action against Benetton in May. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/d30be21c-0d06-4d54-9b45-7982d9fcded9.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Munster&#8217;s Conor Murray in action against Benetton in May. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Conor Murray has criticised the Munster hierarchy for the calibre of signings they\u2019ve made in the last decade, while he also hit out at penny-pinching around travel to and from games in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In his newly-published autobiography, titled \u2018Cloud Nine\u2019, which is released today, the legendary scrum-half lifts the lid on his last couple of seasons at his home province, where he endured a difficult relationship with Graham Rowntree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster&#8217;s Conor Murray in action against Benetton in May. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile Conor Murray has criticised the Munster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13919,61,60,4174,11897,112],"class_list":["post-14520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-conor-murray","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","tag-munster-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}