{"id":87962,"date":"2025-09-27T02:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T02:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/87962\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T02:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T02:34:10","slug":"bottle-up-a-little-bit-of-the-pain-of-that-leo-cullen-vows-to-get-leinster-back-on-track-after-stormers-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/87962\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bottle up a little bit of the pain of that\u2019 \u2013 Leo Cullen vows to get Leinster back on track after Stormers debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leinster head coach Leo Cullen is interviewed after his side's defeat at DHL Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. Photo by Shaun Roy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/42631ed7-39e1-43b9-a97e-4f9b9970db0c.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)\">Leinster head coach Leo Cullen is interviewed after his side&#8217;s defeat at DHL Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. Photo by Shaun Roy\/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)\">Things don\u2019t get any easier for Leinster on their two-week tour of South Africa as they barely get time to lick their wounds after a mauling from the Stormers before they take on the Bulls on Saturday week.<\/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)\">Leo Cullen had flagged his concern about the squad\u2019s preparation for the new season, but even in his worst nightmares, he can\u2019t have envisaged the comprehensive nature of this 35-0 hammering in Cape Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster head coach Leo Cullen is interviewed after his side&#8217;s defeat at DHL Stadium in Cape Town, South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,12861,15,16,5,4934,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-87962","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-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-leinster-rugby","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","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\/87962","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=87962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}