{"id":266165,"date":"2026-01-04T02:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266165\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:49:09","slug":"it-was-painful-stuart-lancaster-reaffirms-commitment-to-connacht-after-leinster-humbling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266165\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was painful \u2019 \u2013 Stuart Lancaster reaffirms commitment to Connacht after Leinster humbling"},"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\">Lancaster frustrated as his team are blown away in a second half blitz at the Aviva Stadium\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Connacht head coach Stuart Lancaster at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d2a9ba82-8f8e-434b-8ca2-b6654c55e3e0.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)\">Connacht head coach Stuart Lancaster at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Tyler Miller\/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)\">Stuart Lancaster endured a difficult night on his return to Dublin, his Connacht side coming out on the wrong side of a 52-17 mauling at the Aviva Stadium.<\/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)\">He enjoyed many nights on the right side of that type of scoreline during his seven years at the helm of Leinster and admitted he found the experience on the other end of the eight-try defeat difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lancaster frustrated as his team are blown away in a second half blitz at the Aviva Stadium Connacht&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[23199,18,19,17,12861,53475,4934,132,23201],"class_list":{"0":"post-266165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-connacht-rugby","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-leinster-rugby","13":"tag-leo-cullen","14":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-stuart-lancaster"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115834556395242124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266165","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=266165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}