{"id":474414,"date":"2026-05-30T08:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474414\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:16:15","slug":"munster-rugby-all-you-need-to-know-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474414\/","title":{"rendered":"Munster Rugby | All You Need To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Munster take on Vodacom Bulls in Pretoria on Saturday in the URC quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides have qualified for the URC knock-outs in the five seasons since the four South African clubs joined the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the game will face the winners of Glasgow Warriors v Connacht in the semi-final next week.<\/p>\n<p>Where?<\/p>\n<p>Loftus Versfeld<\/p>\n<p>When?<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, May 30, 12pm Irish time\/1pm local<\/p>\n<p>Munster News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.munsterrugby.ie\/2026\/05\/25\/squad-update-quarter-final-preparations-continue\/#post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Squad Update<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.munsterrugby.ie\/gallery\/bulls-qf-preparations-26-05-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Training Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Team News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.munsterrugby.ie\/preview\/team-news-munster-side-for-urc-quarter-final-against-bulls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0for the full team announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Munster Rugby:\u00a0Mike Haley; Andrew Smith, Alex Nankivell, Se\u00e1n O\u2019Brien, Shane Daly; JJ Hanrahan, Craig Casey (C); Jeremy Loughman, Niall Scannell, Michael Ala\u2019alatoa; Tom Ahern, Evan O\u2019Connell; Jack O\u2019Donoghue, John Hodnett, Brian Gleeson.<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: Diarmuid Barron, Josh Wycherley, Conor Bartley, Fineen Wycherley, Gavin Coombes, Ben O\u2019Donovan, Dan Kelly, Alex Kendellen.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know?<\/p>\n<p>Munster, in April 2024 and Glasgow Warriors in June 2024 are the only non-South African teams to triumph at Loftus Versfeld in the URC.<br \/>\nThis is Munster\u2019s tenth successive appearance in the BKT URC play-offs<br \/>\nThe two teams have met on five occasions with the Bulls holding the edge by three wins to two.<\/p>\n<p>Match Officials<\/p>\n<p>Referee: Andrea Piardi<\/p>\n<p>AR1: Federico Vedovelli<\/p>\n<p>AR2: Filippo Russo<\/p>\n<p>TMO: Matteo Liperini<\/p>\n<p>Press Pass<\/p>\n<p>Hear from Head Coach Clayton McMillan and Evan O\u2019Connell ahead of the game.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Broadcast<\/p>\n<p>Live on Premier Sports, URC TV, SuperSport &amp; Flo Rugby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster take on Vodacom Bulls in Pretoria on Saturday in the URC quarter-finals. Both sides have qualified for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-474414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474414","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=474414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}