{"id":179946,"date":"2025-12-07T21:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/179946\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T21:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:20:09","slug":"cian-tracey-fans-taken-for-granted-as-second-string-syndrome-calls-integrity-of-champions-cup-into-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/179946\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey: Fans taken for granted as second-string syndrome calls integrity of Champions Cup into question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Caelan Doris signs autographs for young supporters after the Champions Cup win over Harlequins. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9701ffcb-91cd-43b4-9656-9e89475596b7.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)\">Caelan Doris signs autographs for young supporters after the Champions Cup win over Harlequins. 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)\">Walking into the Aviva Stadium on Saturday, we were behind a group of Harlequins supporters, whom we overheard talking about the extortionate price they had paid for a hotel room in rip-off Dublin.<\/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)\">Being this close to Christmas, they could just as easily have saved their hard-earned cash, but part of the magic on which the Champions Cup has always been predicated, are the special memories and the lifelong bonds that are forged on away trips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caelan Doris signs autographs for young supporters after the Champions Cup win over Harlequins. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile Walking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13503,61,60,11287,11897,112],"class_list":["post-179946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cian-tracey","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-munster-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179946","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=179946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}