{"id":371079,"date":"2026-03-29T08:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371079\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T08:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:27:11","slug":"stuart-lancaster-not-dwelling-on-connachts-missed-bonus-point-opportunity-against-gritty-ospreys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/371079\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart Lancaster not dwelling on Connacht\u2019s missed bonus point opportunity against \u2018gritty\u2019 Ospreys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matthew Devine of Connacht celebrates after scoring his side's third try with Sam Illo during the United Rugby Championship match at Dexcom Stadium in Galway. Photo: Paul Phelan\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cd1bfa6a-878e-4ea6-9e8a-8b670f0838dc.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)\">Matthew Devine of Connacht celebrates after scoring his side&#8217;s third try with Sam Illo during the United Rugby Championship match at Dexcom Stadium in Galway. Photo: Paul Phelan\/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)\">Stuart Lancaster said he is just pleased that Connacht have extended their winning run rather than dwell on how they did not go for a try bonus point in the final play.<\/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)\">Connacht turned over a ball in midfield as the clock headed into the red and got as far as the 22, but when it was recycled from a ruck, replacement Se\u00e1n O\u2019Brien kicked the ball into touch to end the game, with many of his teammates looking at him in disbelief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Devine of Connacht celebrates after scoring his side&#8217;s third try with Sam Illo during the United Rugby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28454,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-371079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-connacht-rugby","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371079","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=371079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}