{"id":129360,"date":"2025-10-18T03:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/129360\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T03:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:12:10","slug":"i-didnt-always-deal-with-scrutiny-properly-jack-crowley-ups-the-ante-as-he-seeks-to-make-irish-no-10-shirt-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/129360\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I didn\u2019t always deal with scrutiny properly\u2019 \u2013 Jack Crowley ups the ante as he seeks to make Irish No 10 shirt his own"},"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 out-half hoping his hard work in pre-season pays off as he looks sharp and lean so far this season\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jack Crowley of Munster reacts during the United Rugby Championship match between Leinster and Munster at Croke Park in Dublin last October. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/c68cf9ba-5f2c-4605-bf27-1fbf67e64171.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 of Munster reacts during the United Rugby Championship match between Leinster and Munster at Croke Park in Dublin last October. Photo by Seb Daly\/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)\">You could forgive Jack Crowley for taking an extended break at the end of a long and often difficult season in 2024\/\u201925, but the Innishannon native did the opposite.<\/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 leading Ireland to a record win over a hapless Portugal side in Lisbon, he repaired to Spain for two weeks before he threw himself into an individualised pre-season programme designed to hit the ground running when the action got going and sustain him all the way through to July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster out-half hoping his hard work in pre-season pays off as he looks sharp and lean so far&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,12861,15,16,12311,5,4934,7,8,42271],"class_list":{"0":"post-129360","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-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-leinster-rugby","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-munster-rugby","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories","26":"tag-united-rugby-championship"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129360","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=129360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}