{"id":393841,"date":"2026-03-19T21:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/393841\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T21:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:17:13","slug":"ulster-confirm-that-rob-baloucoune-faces-surgery-and-three-months-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/393841\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster confirm that Rob Baloucoune faces surgery and three months out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ULSTER RUGBY HAVE confirmed that their winger Rob Baloucoune has suffered an injury to his elbow during Ireland\u2019s win over Scotland in the Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The injury will require surgery and means the Enniskillen man will be spending three months on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Ulster Rugby can confirm that Rob Baloucoune sustained an elbow injury in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IrishRugby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@IrishRugby<\/a>\u2019s win over Scotland last weekend. He will undergo surgery and is expected to be sidelined for approximately three months. <\/p>\n<p>Wishing you a speedy recovery, Rob \ud83e\udd15 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vvRfXZvO65\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/vvRfXZvO65<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ulster Rugby (@UlsterRugby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UlsterRugby\/status\/2034571586997453127?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Baloucoune was named the \u2018Rising Player\u2019 of the Six Nations tournament after making a huge impression at 28-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>He played four games and scored three tries as he delivered on his rich promise that has often been interrupted with injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite only taking rugby up later than most players, it is a huge loss to Richie Murphy\u2019s Ulster side. In a much-improved season, they currently sit at third in the URC table and play Connacht tomorrow night at the Affidea Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>In the last 16 of the Challenge Cup, they face Ospreys on Saturday, 4 April.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ULSTER RUGBY HAVE confirmed that their winger Rob Baloucoune has suffered an injury to his elbow during Ireland\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,1931,17,40691,2525,132,41016],"class_list":["post-393841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-injury","tag-ireland","tag-irfu","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-ulster"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116257924392211118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393841","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=393841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}