{"id":118647,"date":"2025-10-13T05:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/118647\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T05:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:20:13","slug":"tony-ward-leinster-can-beat-munster-in-croker-showdown-if-they-show-the-same-sharks-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/118647\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Ward: Leinster can beat Munster in Croker showdown if they show the same Sharks bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Don't rule out Harry Byrne for the No 10 jersey. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7fde9d2d-188b-4547-994a-db8337cc35ec.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)\">Don&#8217;t rule out Harry Byrne for the No 10 jersey. Photo: Brendan Moran\/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)\">If the final dress rehearsal is any indicator of who is ready for next weekend\u2019s eagerly-anticipated URC showdown in Croke Park, then Leinster are a step ahead of Munster following Saturday\u2019s 31-5 victory over Sharks.<\/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)\">And lest that statement might appear a tad arrogant on my part I can assure you it is certainly not intended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t rule out Harry Byrne for the No 10 jersey. Photo: Brendan Moran\/Sportsfile If the final dress rehearsal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132,72537],"class_list":{"0":"post-118647","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-sports","12":"tag-tony-ward"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118647","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=118647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}