{"id":391769,"date":"2026-04-22T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391769\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:04:08","slug":"munster-rugby-turmoil-grows-after-roger-randle-appointment-sparks-resignations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391769\/","title":{"rendered":"Munster Rugby turmoil grows after Roger Randle appointment sparks resignations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">He has denied the allegations and charges were withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Roger Randle's appointment at Munster has prompted multiple resignations. Photo \/ Photosport\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Roger Randle&#8217;s appointment at Munster has prompted multiple resignations. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The Irish Times reported Munster chief executive Ian Flanagan and general manager Ian Costello were understood to be the driving force behind the appointment of Randle, who had a previous working relationship with head coach Clayton McMillan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Munster captain Tadhg Beirne said he was focused on playing rivals Ulster at the weekend when asked about Randle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere\u2019s obviously a lot being said at the moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBut like I said, I can\u2019t be distracted by any of that stuff at the moment because in here, all our focus is on Ulster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cClayton [McMillan] has worked with him, has a great relationship with him. He sat down with us as a leadership group and spoke very highly of him. So, we\u2019re just mainly focused on the next this week and then come the summer, we can focus on everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Munster go into their match at the weekend off the back of a seven-try victory over Italian outfit Benetton in the United Rugby Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe had two long weeks to prepare for that game, and I think we had a good look at ourselves to bounce back and thankfully we got a good response,\u201d Beirne said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He has denied the allegations and charges were withdrawn. Roger Randle&#8217;s appointment at Munster has prompted multiple resignations.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,52371,89,17909,18836,1320,49722,13982,9978,18792,2510,49970,202543,111,139,69,10711,202541,202542,160608,28120,1629,6372,6327,6926,8207,213,1516,143077,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-391769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-appointment","10":"tag-attack","11":"tag-chiefs","12":"tag-club","13":"tag-coach","14":"tag-coaching","15":"tag-continues","16":"tag-grows","17":"tag-irish","18":"tag-multiple","19":"tag-munster","20":"tag-munsters","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-officials","25":"tag-randle","26":"tag-randles","27":"tag-resignations","28":"tag-resigning","29":"tag-rock","30":"tag-roger","31":"tag-rugby","32":"tag-season","33":"tag-sparks","34":"tag-sports","35":"tag-staff","36":"tag-turmoil","37":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}