{"id":189584,"date":"2025-11-19T20:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/189584\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T20:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:44:15","slug":"sam-prendergast-set-to-retain-the-ireland-number-10-shirt-for-clash-with-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/189584\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Prendergast set to retain the Ireland number 10 shirt for clash with South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam Prendergast is poised to get the nod to start for Ireland against South Africa on Saturday. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/d6e8d54d-6574-4660-bcf5-36a82b7b44a7.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)\">Sam Prendergast is poised to get the nod to start for Ireland against South Africa on Saturday. Photo: 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 looks set to retain the Ireland No 10 shirt for Saturday\u2019s much anticipated showdown against South Africa.<\/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)\">Jack Crowley started the first two games of the Autumn Nations Series against New Zealand and Japan, but Prendergast was handed the reins against Australia last weekend and impressed with his kicking and passing range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Prendergast is poised to get the nod to start for Ireland against South Africa on Saturday. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[70904,18,19,17,73724,4934,40692,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-189584","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-jack-crowley","13":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","14":"tag-sam-prendergast","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115578317599801749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189584","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=189584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}