{"id":412192,"date":"2026-02-07T02:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412192\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T02:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:20:08","slug":"prem-rugby-cup-leicester-28-19-newcastle-red-bulls-four-try-tigers-in-bonus-point-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412192\/","title":{"rendered":"Prem Rugby Cup: Leicester 28-19 Newcastle Red Bulls: Four-try Tigers in bonus point win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In atrocious conditions at kick-off, it did not take long for Leicester to go in front, as Josh Manz went over in the first minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newcastle responded with two scores of their own 10 minutes later through Micky Rewcastle and Tom Cardell, only for Hanro Liebenberg to restore the hosts&#8217; advantage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Will Wand extended the Tigers&#8217; lead in the second half, before the sides traded tries again &#8211; Harrison Obatoyinbo briefly reducing the deficit before Izaia Parese put Leicester up by nine once more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The home side were perfect from conversions, three coming from the boot of James O&#8217;Connor and one from Tom Whiteley. Ethan Grayson, meanwhile, added four points to the visitors&#8217; tally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicester&#8217;s gap at the top of Pool B stretches to eight points, while Newcastle remain five points behind second-placed Saracens after a 13th defeat in 19 games in 2025-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In atrocious conditions at kick-off, it did not take long for Leicester to go in front, as Josh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-412192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}