{"id":167251,"date":"2025-11-30T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/167251\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T08:00:13","slug":"munster-taught-harsh-scrum-lesson-as-stormers-bomb-squad-delivers-second-half-comeback-to-stun-thomond-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/167251\/","title":{"rendered":"Munster taught harsh scrum lesson as Stormers\u2019 bomb squad delivers second-half comeback to stun Thomond Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Munster 21 Stormers 27\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gavin Coombes of Munster is tackled by DHL Stormers players Neethlin Fouche, left, and Vernon Matongo during the United Rugby Championship match at Thomond Park in Limerick. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3301893.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)\">Gavin Coombes of Munster is tackled by DHL Stormers players Neethlin Fouche, left, and Vernon Matongo during the United Rugby Championship match at Thomond Park in Limerick. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/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)\">No scrum, no win. The message is booming around Irish rugby, loud and clear.<\/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)\">For the second time in seven days an Irish audience was treated to a show of South African set-piece supremacy, with the Stormers borrowing from the Springbok play-book to deliver a thrilling comeback win over Munster that keeps their 100 per cent start to the season intact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster 21 Stormers 27 Gavin Coombes of Munster is tackled by DHL Stormers players Neethlin Fouche, left, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,11897,16766,112],"class_list":["post-167251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-munster-rugby","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167251","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=167251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}