{"id":518246,"date":"2026-04-07T20:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518246\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:33:10","slug":"ulster-rugby-herring-and-doak-injury-doubts-for-challenge-cup-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/518246\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster Rugby: Herring and Doak injury doubts for Challenge Cup quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ulster have confirmed that Rob Herring and Nathan Doak are injury doubts for Friday&#8217;s Challenge Cup quarter-final against La Rochelle (20:00 BST).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Herring (calf) and Doak (ankle) both picked up injuries in Saturday&#8217;s 28-24 victory over Ospreys at the Affidea Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scrum-half Doak made his international debut in the Six Nations and has been influential in Ulster&#8217;s impressive form this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are still waiting on both of the guys,&#8221; Ulster defence coach Willie Faloon told BBC Sport NI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They both took part in some parts of training and we will see where we are at the weekend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stewart Moore (knee), Rory McGuire (shoulder), James McNabney (knee), Michael Lowry (groin) and Robert Baloucoune (elbow) will remain sidelined this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richie Murphy&#8217;s side face La Rochelle for a spot in the Challenge Cup semi-finals with the northern province unbeaten in their past two games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This weekend&#8217;s visitors defeated Newcastle Red Bulls 26-18 to reach the last eight and have won three of their past four fixtures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Montpellier host Connacht, Benetton welcome Exeter Chiefs and Zebre face Dragons in the other quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster have confirmed that Rob Herring and Nathan Doak are injury doubts for Friday&#8217;s Challenge Cup quarter-final against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-518246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518246","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=518246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}