{"id":466729,"date":"2025-10-01T21:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/466729\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:10:16","slug":"ulster-rugby-stuart-mccloskey-says-edinburgh-duel-is-the-perfect-chance-to-lay-down-a-marker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/466729\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster Rugby: Stuart McCloskey says Edinburgh duel is the perfect chance to lay down a marker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Experienced Ulster star Stuart McCloskey is relishing another crack at Edinburgh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68f65a45-89c1-4e3e-aeec-4f68298f39b0.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Experienced Ulster star Stuart McCloskey is relishing another crack at Edinburgh<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This definitely wasn\u2019t what he had in mind. All that preparation, the long pre-season \u2013 albeit longer for those not with Ireland \u2013 and just seconds in, Aaron Wainwright had ripped the whole thing up and scored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was blink of the eye stuff and Stuart McCloskey could hardly believe it as Ulster were 7-0 down having barely even touched the ball moments after it had been kicked off by the Dragons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experienced Ulster star Stuart McCloskey is relishing another crack at Edinburgh This definitely wasn\u2019t what he had in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,155668,712,8542,16,34596,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-466729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-michael-sadlier","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-south-belfast-sport","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-ulster-rugby","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115300967038909563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}