{"id":91996,"date":"2025-09-29T05:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/91996\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:20:17","slug":"cian-tracey-the-key-storylines-as-the-new-rugby-season-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/91996\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey: The key storylines as the new rugby season gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mike Haley of Munster is tackled during the United Rugby Championship match between Scarlets and Munster at Parc Y Scarlets in Llanelli, Wales. Photo by Gareth Everett\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sports3248738.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)\">Mike Haley of Munster is tackled during the United Rugby Championship match between Scarlets and Munster at Parc Y Scarlets in Llanelli, Wales. Photo by Gareth Everett\/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)\">Buckle up, another marathon rugby season is upon us. This weekend saw the start of the URC coincide with the beginning of the English Premiership, or PREM Rugby as it has been rebranded by the cool kids down the back. And while the French Top 14 is already four games into its own mammoth campaign, all roads lead to the same finishing point next July.<\/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)\">With so much road to run between now and then, here are some of the biggest storylines to watch out for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Haley of Munster is tackled during the United Rugby Championship match between Scarlets and Munster at Parc&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[39921,23199,18,19,17,12861,12311,132,23200],"class_list":{"0":"post-91996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cian-tracey","9":"tag-connacht-rugby","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-leinster-rugby","14":"tag-munster-rugby","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ulster-rugby"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91996","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=91996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}