{"id":290180,"date":"2026-01-18T02:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/290180\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T02:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:22:10","slug":"bernard-jackman-leinster-keep-winning-but-know-they-have-to-go-up-a-level-munster-have-lost-their-old-aura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/290180\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Jackman: Leinster keep winning but know they have to go up a level \u2013 Munster have lost their old aura"},"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\">Edwin Edogbo is a super talent and I would be shocked if he doesn\u2019t play for Ireland in this Six Nations\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Edwin Edogbo, one of Munster's best performers against Castres, after his side's defeat at Thomond Park in Limerick. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/13768401-1f55-4e24-a1aa-12ceae7e08e4.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)\">Edwin Edogbo, one of Munster&#8217;s best performers against Castres, after his side&#8217;s defeat at Thomond Park in Limerick. Photo: 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)\">Today\u2019s European action was important on many fronts. It was the last round of the group stages, but it was also a final trial for any players hoping to start for Ireland in the Six Nations opener in Paris against France.<\/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)\">On paper, our two Champions Cup provinces, Leinster and Munster, had reasonably favourable fixtures. Leinster started the afternoon in Bayonne who sit in ninth place in the Top 14 but who had zero points from the first three games in Pool 3 and Munster hosted Castres, who are currently 10th in their domestic competition. It was a real mixed bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edwin Edogbo is a super talent and I would be shocked if he doesn\u2019t play for Ireland in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[23202,18,19,17,12861,53475,12311,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-290180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-clayton-mcmillan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-leinster-rugby","13":"tag-leo-cullen","14":"tag-munster-rugby","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115913723190479287","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290180","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=290180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}