{"id":367957,"date":"2026-03-27T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367957\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:50:12","slug":"cian-tracey-munster-in-crisis-and-the-pressure-is-on-to-secure-champions-cup-spot-for-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367957\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey: Munster in crisis \u2013\u00a0and the pressure is on to secure Champions Cup spot for next season"},"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\">Coaches and players are feeling the heat as they seek to avoid a hit to the coffers of cash-strapped province amid staff redundancies\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Munster players react at full-time in their United Rugby Championship defeat to the Sharks in Durban. Photo: Shaun Roy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3b12f3f7-dfd6-4199-88cf-02ea08af4ad2.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)\">Munster players react at full-time in their United Rugby Championship defeat to the Sharks in Durban. Photo: Shaun Roy\/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)\">At the end of a very difficult week for Munster \u2013 on and off the pitch \u2013 the last place they would want to have to go in search of a morale-boosting win is Loftus Versfeld.<\/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)\">Although Munster won on their last visit to Pretoria two years ago, tomorrow afternoon\u2019s (12.0 Irish time) clash against the in-form Bulls looks like a much more daunting challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coaches and players are feeling the heat as they seek to avoid a hit to the coffers of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13503,11896,61,60,11897,112,14881],"class_list":["post-367957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cian-tracey","tag-clayton-mcmillan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-munster-rugby","tag-sports","tag-united-rugby-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367957","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=367957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}