{"id":172211,"date":"2025-12-03T04:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/172211\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T04:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:12:09","slug":"cian-tracey-johnny-sexton-spat-and-loss-of-form-mean-rieko-ioane-has-work-cut-out-to-win-over-leinster-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/172211\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey: Johnny Sexton spat and loss of form mean Rieko Ioane has work cut out to win over Leinster fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leinster must decide what position Rieko Ioane should play to best suit their needs. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/23c73c25-f004-4dd6-8435-a472ba7cc388.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)\">Leinster must decide what position Rieko Ioane should play to best suit their needs. Photo: 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)\">By their nature, marquee signings are game-changers. In terms of Irish rugby, those elite overseas recruits usually arrive at their peak, ready to deliver on the big stage.<\/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)\">Last April, after the initial shock had subsided following Leinster\u2019s announcement that Rieko Ioane would be arriving in Dublin, there was a recognition that, for the second year running, Leo Cullen had pulled off a major coup by landing an All Black back in his prime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster must decide what position Rieko Ioane should play to best suit their needs. Photo: Sportsfile By their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13503,61,60,11287,112],"class_list":["post-172211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cian-tracey","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172211","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=172211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}