{"id":664187,"date":"2026-10-24T16:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T16:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/664187\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T16:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T16:46:12","slug":"ulster-fall-short-in-battling-bid-to-beat-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/664187\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster fall short in battling bid to beat Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ulster fell short as they were beaten 34-26 by the Bulls despite a superb fightback in their United Rugby Championship clash in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p>The South African side raced into a 21-0 lead with two tries from former Ulster forward Marcell Coetzee either side of an effort from Elrigh Louw.<\/p>\n<p>Ulster replied on the stroke of half-time through Chay Mullins and David McCann reduced the arrears further after the restart.<\/p>\n<p>Coetzee was then sin-binned to give Ulster further encouragement but a Handre Pollard penalty checked their momentum.<\/p>\n<p>Mullins&#8217; second try put the Irish side within striking distance but Johan Grobbelaar crossed from close range to all but make the game safe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/rugby\/united-rugby-championship\/34235\/report-5650676\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL MATCH DETAILS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ulster were given late hope when Stuart McCloskey forced his way over but Curwin Bosch\u2019s last-minute penalty sealed the home side\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster fell short as they were beaten 34-26 by the Bulls despite a superb fightback in their United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-664187","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\/664187","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=664187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}