{"id":261029,"date":"2026-01-24T05:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261029\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T05:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:06:13","slug":"punched-in-the-nose-left-sitting-on-our-backsides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261029\/","title":{"rendered":"Punched in the nose, left sitting on our backsides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The things that kills you is the hope. But poor errors and attitude cripple too. This has been a grinding, one- foot-in-front-of-the-other, week. Tough to move on from the exit from the Champions Cup, but all the more brutal given the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I\u2019ve my hand up here too. After the Leinster game, I got the training structure wrong, on reflection. Guys were knackered, they gave a lot at the Aviva and given how well we played, how many tries we left after us and how disappointing the loss was, I tried to turn the page too soon on Leinster for for Harlequins and the Champions Cup in an attempt to put it behind us fast. Bad move. If I had my time again we would have done nothing bar a captain\u2019s run, resting them for the week. I am gutted with myself for getting that wrong.<\/p>\n<p>This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IE Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4633150_1_org_IE_logo_modals.png\" width=\"340\" height=\"41\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\tSubscribe to access all of the Irish Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>Annual \u20ac130\u20ac80<\/p>\n<p class=\"best-value\">Best value<\/p>\n<p>Monthly \u20ac12\u20ac6 \/ month<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Benefits image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4874751_1_org_Funnel_image.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The things that kills you is the hope. But poor errors and attitude cripple too. This has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23713,54046,42553,32728,61,60,11287,11897,112],"class_list":["post-261029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-irish-examiner-instagram-sport","tag-irish-rugby","tag-ronan-ogara","tag-champions-cup","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\/261029","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=261029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}