{"id":513359,"date":"2025-10-20T02:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T02:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/513359\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T02:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T02:53:09","slug":"absolute-stinker-six-gallagher-prem-players-who-flopped-this-weekend-page-2-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/513359\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Absolute Stinker&#8221; &#8211; Six Gallagher Prem players who FLOPPED this weekend &#8211; Page 2 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#3. Luke Cowan-Dickie (Sale Sharks)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cowan-Dickie\u2019s weekend went from bad to worse as he\u00a0<strong>received a red card for a high tackle<\/strong>\u00a0while defending the try-line. <\/p>\n<p>Sale were hammered 65-14 by Saracens, and his absence for the rest of the game was telling. This suspension could now affect\u00a0<strong>both club and country<\/strong>, with the England hooker potentially\u00a0<strong>missing the start of the Autumn Internationals<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>A costly lapse in discipline on a weekend already full of errors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#4. Beno Obano (Bath Rugby)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obano struggled against Leicester\u2019s forwards, particularly\u00a0<strong>Joe Heyes<\/strong>, and couldn\u2019t dominate the collision area as expected. <\/p>\n<p>While a penalty went his way at one point, it wasn\u2019t enough to swing momentum. <\/p>\n<p>He did manage to\u00a0<strong>lay in some big defensive hits<\/strong>, showing his physicality, but the overall performance\u00a0<strong>fell short of the standard needed in a close 22-20 defeat<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruck.co.uk\/absolute-stinker-six-gallagher-prem-players-who-flopped-this-weekend\/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CONTINUES ON PAGE THREE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"#3. Luke Cowan-Dickie (Sale Sharks) Cowan-Dickie\u2019s weekend went from bad to worse as he\u00a0received a red card for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-513359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115404237114779618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513359","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=513359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}