{"id":47966,"date":"2025-09-28T02:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/47966\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T02:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:59:09","slug":"connacht-get-stuart-lancaster-tenure-off-to-perfect-start-with-bonus-point-urc-win-over-benetton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/47966\/","title":{"rendered":"Connacht get Stuart Lancaster tenure off to perfect start with bonus-point URC win over Benetton"},"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\">Connacht 26 Benetton 15\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shayne Bolton of Connacht in action against Benetton Treviso players, from left, Malakai Fekitoa and Louis Werchon during the United Rugby Championship match at Dexcom Stadium in Galway. Photo: Thomas Flinkow\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sports3249034.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)\">Shayne Bolton of Connacht in action against Benetton Treviso players, from left, Malakai Fekitoa and Louis Werchon during the United Rugby Championship match at Dexcom Stadium in Galway. Photo: Thomas Flinkow\/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)\">Skipper Paul Boyle led from the front as the Stuart Lancaster era in charge of Connacht got off to an encouraging start with a bonus-point win over a strong Benetton side at Dexcom Stadium.<\/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, even without their three Lions, were on top in the key areas and while Lancaster will no doubt plenty of room for improvement, they did more than enough to craft a deserved win and give momentum to the feelgood factor which has prevailed since the former England coach\u2019s shock appointment in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connacht 26 Benetton 15 Shayne Bolton of Connacht in action against Benetton Treviso players, from left, Malakai Fekitoa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28454,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-47966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-connacht-rugby","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47966","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=47966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}