{"id":603624,"date":"2026-05-25T21:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603624\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:32:08","slug":"united-rugby-championship-munsters-crowley-ruled-out-of-quarter-final-meeting-with-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603624\/","title":{"rendered":"United Rugby Championship: Munster&#8217;s Crowley ruled out of quarter-final meeting with Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Munster fly-half Jack Crowley has been ruled out of Saturday&#8217;s United Rugby Championship quarter-final against the Bulls in Pretoria (12:00 BST).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ireland number 10 was named in the Irish province&#8217;s starting line-up for their final regular URC game against the Lions nine days ago but withdrew soon before kick-off as Clayton McMillan&#8217;s side went on to win 24-17 and secure their place in the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crowley had previously missed the loss to Connacht while he also pulled out just before Munster&#8217;s game against Ulster at the end of April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On a more positive note, Fineen Wycherley and Alex Nankivell have both returned to training after withdrawing from the matchday squad to face Lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Munster squad will depart for South Africa on Tuesday and will arrive in Pretoria on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster fly-half Jack Crowley has been ruled out of Saturday&#8217;s United Rugby Championship quarter-final against the Bulls in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-603624","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\/603624","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=603624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}