{"id":45947,"date":"2025-09-27T03:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/45947\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T03:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:31:09","slug":"bottle-up-a-little-bit-of-the-pain-of-that-leo-cullen-vows-to-get-leinster-back-on-track-after-stormers-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/45947\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bottle up a little bit of the pain of that\u2019 \u2013 Leo Cullen vows to get Leinster back on track after Stormers debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leinster head coach Leo Cullen is interviewed after his side's defeat at DHL Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. Photo by Shaun Roy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/42631ed7-39e1-43b9-a97e-4f9b9970db0c.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)\">Leinster head coach Leo Cullen is interviewed after his side&#8217;s defeat at DHL Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. Photo by 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)\">Things don\u2019t get any easier for Leinster on their two-week tour of South Africa as they barely get time to lick their wounds after a mauling from the Stormers before they take on the Bulls on Saturday week.<\/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)\">Leo Cullen had flagged his concern about the squad\u2019s preparation for the new season, but even in his worst nightmares, he can\u2019t have envisaged the comprehensive nature of this 35-0 hammering in Cape Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster head coach Leo Cullen is interviewed after his side&#8217;s defeat at DHL Stadium in Cape Town, South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45948,"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-45947","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\/45947","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=45947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}