{"id":45505,"date":"2025-09-26T22:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/45505\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T22:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:43:09","slug":"leinster-deliver-one-of-their-worst-displays-under-leo-cullen-as-they-are-held-scoreless-for-the-first-time-in-17-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/45505\/","title":{"rendered":"Leinster deliver one of their worst displays under Leo Cullen as they are held scoreless for the first time in 17 years"},"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\">\nStormers 35 Leinster 0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Back-row Will Connors (centre) and his Leinster teammates digest a sobering defeat in South Africa. Photo: Shaun Roy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/b742335b-abad-45d0-80d2-1fa2315e1646.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)\">Back-row Will Connors (centre) and his Leinster teammates digest a sobering defeat in South Africa. 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)\">No blue on the board for Leinster in Cape Town \u2013 this was about as bad an 80-minute performance as they\u2019ve put out under Leo Cullen.<\/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)\">Perhaps it\u2019s indicative of a rushed pre-season on the back of a summer where the province contributed so many players to the international game, but they looked poorly prepared for the start of competitive action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stormers 35 Leinster 0 Back-row Will Connors (centre) and his Leinster teammates digest a sobering defeat in South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,11287,43,16766,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-45505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-news","tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45505","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=45505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}