{"id":362114,"date":"2026-03-24T06:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362114\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:56:09","slug":"munster-rugby-squad-update-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362114\/","title":{"rendered":"Munster Rugby | Squad Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Munster squad have started preparations for Saturday\u2019s URC Round 14 clash against Vodacom Bulls at Loftus Versfeld (12pm Irish\/2pm local).<\/p>\n<p>The group travelled to Cape Town on Sunday and will train at sea level this week before flying to Pretoria on Friday for Saturday\u2019s clash against the Bulls.<\/p>\n<p>In player news, Ireland internationals Craig Casey, Jeremy Loughman and Jack Crowley have all linked up with the 31-man squad. The trio took part in training today in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the usual bumps and bruises after Saturday\u2019s clash against Sharks in Durban, none of the 31-man squad have been ruled out of contention for Saturday\u2019s game in Pretoria<\/p>\n<p>The Munster team to face Bulls will be named on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Munster Squad For South Africa Tour<\/p>\n<p>Backs: Craig Casey, Ethan Coughlan, Paddy Patterson, Jack Crowley, JJ Hanrahan, Tom Farrell, Dan Kelly, Alex Nankivell, Se\u00e1n O\u2019Brien, Shane Daly, Mike Haley, Calvin Nash, Ben O\u2019Connor.<\/p>\n<p>Forwards: Michael Ala\u2019alatoa, Jeremy Loughman, Michael Milne, John Ryan, Kieran Ryan, Josh Wycherley, Diarmuid Barron, Lee Barron, Niall Scannell, Tom Ahern, Edwin Edogbo, Jean Kleyn, Fineen Wycherley, Gavin Coombes, Se\u00e1n Edogbo, Brian Gleeson, John Hodnett, Alex Kendellen.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, April 25<\/p>\n<p>URC Round 16: Munster Rugby v Ulster Rugby, Thomond Park, 5.30pm;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.ie\/united-rugby-championship-munster-rugby-v-limerick-city-25-04-2026\/event\/180062E2B1D99157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Buy tickets here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, May 16<\/p>\n<p>URC Round 18: Munster Rugby v Emirates Lions, Thomond Park, 7.45pm;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.ie\/event\/180062E99F4D2465\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Buy tickets here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Munster squad have started preparations for Saturday\u2019s URC Round 14 clash against Vodacom Bulls at Loftus Versfeld&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-362114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362114","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=362114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}