{"id":104667,"date":"2025-10-06T03:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/104667\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T03:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:25:10","slug":"ruaidhri-oconnor-sam-prendergast-must-learn-lessons-from-pretoria-quickly-as-leinsters-room-to-manoeuvre-shrinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/104667\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O\u2019Connor: Sam Prendergast must learn lessons from Pretoria quickly as Leinster\u2019s room to manoeuvre shrinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leinster out-half Sam Prendergast. Photo: Shaun Roy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sports3252554.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)\">Leinster out-half Sam Prendergast. Photo: Shaun Roy\/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)\">Having been elevated into the Ireland team and become Leinster\u2019s No 10, Sam Prendergast is expected to deliver. In the endgame on Saturday night in Pretoria, he didn\u2019t.<\/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 hope for Prendergast, Leo Cullen and Andy Farrell is that by enduring experiences like the last five minutes, he\u2019ll be a better player and that when he finds himself in similar scenarios again later in the season, he\u2019ll be ready to take them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster out-half Sam Prendergast. Photo: Shaun Roy\/Sportsfile Having been elevated into the Ireland team and become Leinster\u2019s No&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,12861,4934,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-104667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-leinster-rugby","12":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104667","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=104667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}