{"id":103603,"date":"2025-10-05T03:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/103603\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T03:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T03:54:09","slug":"jack-crowley-shines-as-munster-grind-out-urc-win-over-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/103603\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Crowley shines as Munster grind out URC win over Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Munster 23 Cardiff 20\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alex Nankivell of Munster is tackled by Rory Jennings of Cardiff Rugby during the United Rugby Championship match at Thomond Park in Limerick. Photo: Sam Barnes\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sports3252736.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Alex Nankivell of Munster is tackled by Rory Jennings of Cardiff Rugby during the United Rugby Championship match at Thomond Park in Limerick. Photo: Sam Barnes\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The last time Clayton McMillan was in Thomond Park, his then All Blacks XV beat Munster. Just shy of a year on, McMillan returned to the home coaching box and watched his side come through a major arm-wrestle with Cardiff to maintain their winning start to the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">After the relative ease with which Munster racked up a bonus point victory over the Scarlets last weekend, Cardiff provided a much stiffer test in difficult conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster 23 Cardiff 20 Alex Nankivell of Munster is tackled by Rory Jennings of Cardiff Rugby during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,39921,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,12311,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-103603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-cian-tracey","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-munster-rugby","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}