{"id":98535,"date":"2025-10-02T06:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T06:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98535\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T06:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T06:42:10","slug":"ruaidhri-oconnor-leinster-have-a-long-list-of-problems-to-solve-as-they-switch-to-salvage-mode-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/98535\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00faaidhr\u00ed O\u2019Connor: Leinster have a long list of problems to solve as they switch to salvage mode in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andrew Osborne during Leinster training in Pretoria. Photo: Frans Lombard \/ Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3f2042b1-27d5-4c26-8dc0-e49a8478828b.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)\">Andrew Osborne during Leinster training in Pretoria. Photo: Frans Lombard \/ 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)\">Professional rugby players usually know what\u2019s coming when the coach stands in front of them for a review session. But when Leo Cullen and Jacques Nienaber gathered the Leinster squad together in a Pretoria hotel on Sunday night, there was any number of angles they could have come at them from.<\/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)\">Even with the caveats of a truncated pre-season, the list of absentees and the fact that it was the opening game of the season, Friday night\u2019s 35-0 defeat to the Stormers will go down as one of the worst Leinster performances of all time. If they go on to achieve their goals it will be a quirky footnote, but for those who were on the field it was an experience like no other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Osborne during Leinster training in Pretoria. Photo: Frans Lombard \/ Sportsfile Professional rugby players usually know what\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,12861,4934,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-98535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-leinster-rugby","12":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98535","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=98535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}