{"id":56939,"date":"2025-09-11T09:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/56939\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T09:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:15:12","slug":"cian-tracey-inside-munsters-old-school-pre-season-training-regime-under-clayton-mcmillan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/56939\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey: Inside Munster\u2019s \u2018old-school\u2019 pre-season training regime under Clayton McMillan"},"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\">\nReds\u2019 players have been pushed out of their comfort zone through boxing, hill running and swimming\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Munster's Jack O'Donoghue and his teammates are applauded off the pitch by the Gloucester team after their pre-season friendly at Kingsholm Stadium last week. Photo: Patrick Khachfe\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/14c7fc40-f441-4f10-b847-9484c74643f1.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)\">Munster&#8217;s Jack O&#8217;Donoghue and his teammates are applauded off the pitch by the Gloucester team after their pre-season friendly at Kingsholm Stadium last week. Photo: Patrick Khachfe\/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)\">The latest stop on Munster\u2019s pre-season tour around the province will see the squad arrive in Castleisland RFC next week following their summer training sessions in Ennis and Rockwell College.<\/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)\">As Clayton McMillan looks to enhance the already strong bond between the Munster faithful and their team, the new head coach has also set about introducing some \u2018old-school\u2019 elements along the way in order to build resilience ahead of the new URC campaign, which begins away to the Scarlets on September 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reds\u2019 players have been pushed out of their comfort zone through boxing, hill running and swimming Munster&#8217;s Jack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,39921,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,12311,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-56939","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-cian-tracey","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-munster-rugby","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56939","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=56939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}