{"id":942960,"date":"2026-05-07T03:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/942960\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T03:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:40:14","slug":"saints-tv-rudge-excited-for-cup-semi-final-against-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/942960\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints TV: Rudge excited for Cup Semi-Final against Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The England international back-rower has been to Wembley three times before, but the last visit, which ended the Saints\u2019 historic reign as the holders of the trophy, was disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>Fuelled by the desire to return to the big stage and put on a better performance and try to reclaim the Challenge Cup prize, Rudge talks about how the team has been building into this knockout clash with the Rhinos over recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>With two Women\u2019s Semi-Finals and the Final itself to come, it\u2019s a chance for the Women\u2019s game to be in the spotlight, and Emily believes our top talent will be able to shine.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The England international back-rower has been to Wembley three times before, but the last visit, which ended the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[218457,263391,748,5013,218461,263392,393,4884,1860,223028,223031,16,15,1292,263393,91710],"class_list":{"0":"post-942960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-2026-challenge-cup","9":"tag-2026-womens-challenge-cup","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-challenge-cup","12":"tag-challenge-cup-2026","13":"tag-emily-rudge","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-leeds","17":"tag-saints-women","18":"tag-st-helens-women","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-women","22":"tag-womens-challenge-cup","23":"tag-womens-team"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116531221422310307","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942960","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=942960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}