{"id":120676,"date":"2025-10-14T04:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/120676\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T04:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:23:10","slug":"ruaidhri-oconnor-irelands-no-10-situation-a-result-of-lack-of-long-term-planning-as-battle-comes-to-a-head-at-croke-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/120676\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O\u2019Connor: Ireland&#8217;s No 10 situation a result of lack of long term planning as battle comes to a head at Croke Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jack Crowley and Sam Prendergast of Ireland will go head to head at Croke Park this Saturday. Photo by David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3041727.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)\">Jack Crowley and Sam Prendergast of Ireland will go head to head at Croke Park this Saturday. Photo by David Fitzgerald\/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)\">Sam Prendergast and Jack Crowley have been on the same pitch as one another many times at this stage, but at Croke Park on Saturday they\u2019ll finally play against each other for the first time.<\/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)\">It is a strange quirk of this headline-grabbing rivalry that we have never seen the two most talked about players in Irish rugby go head to head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Crowley and Sam Prendergast of Ireland will go head to head at Croke Park this Saturday. Photo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[70904,18,19,17,4934,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-120676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-andy-farrell","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","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\/120676","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=120676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}