{"id":200294,"date":"2025-06-17T01:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T23:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-bumbling-bulls-no-match-for-slick-leinster-in-urc-final\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T01:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T23:33:20","slug":"namibia-bumbling-bulls-no-match-for-slick-leinster-in-urc-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-bumbling-bulls-no-match-for-slick-leinster-in-urc-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Bumbling Bulls No Match for Slick Leinster in URC Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>The Bulls&#8217; quest for an elusive United Rugby Championship virtually ended before it began as two early tries set up Leinster&#8217;s 32-7 triumph in Saturday&#8217;s final at Croke Park in Dublin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Jake White&#8217;s team conceded 14 points in as many minutes in a terrible start to the title decider, and were unable to recover and mount a serious challenge to the Irish giants to go down in their third URC final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">While they weren&#8217;t given any favours from Italian referee Andrea Piardi either, what will have&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506160635.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bulls&#8217; quest for an elusive United Rugby Championship virtually ended before it began as two early tries set up Leinster&#8217;s 32-7 triumph in Saturday&#8217;s final at Croke Park in Dublin. Jake White&#8217;s team conceded 14 points in as many minutes in a terrible start to the title decider, and were unable to recover and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,46161,51646,6038,51647,8778,4706,724,257,9523,254,51648],"class_list":["post-200294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bulls","tag-bumbling","tag-final","tag-leinster","tag-match","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-slick","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urc"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}