{"id":152453,"date":"2025-11-21T19:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152453\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T19:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:41:14","slug":"ian-madigan-what-ireland-must-do-if-they-are-to-overcome-the-strongest-squad-of-the-professional-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152453\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Madigan: What Ireland must do if they are to overcome the strongest squad of the professional era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763754073_364_video.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)\">Ian Madigan looks ahead to the arrival of the Springboks and another tough test for Ireland<\/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)\">As we prepare for South Africa\u2019s arrival for what has become one of the biggest rivalries in recent times, we will be welcoming, in my opinion, the strongest squad since rugby turned professional \u2013 surpassing even the great All Blacks team led by Richie McCaw and Dan Carter.<\/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)\">They have what we want \u2013 the William Webb Ellis Cup. While we will not be winning that today, this game and the opening match of the Six Nations against France will be the benchmark for our chances in the 2029 World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian Madigan looks ahead to the arrival of the Springboks and another tough test for Ireland As we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[73536,86051,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-152453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-autumn-internationals","tag-ian-madigan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152453","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=152453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}