{"id":32000,"date":"2025-07-08T18:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/ireland-rugby-portugal-game-needs-to-be-taken-seriously-says-interim-coach-cullie-tucker\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T18:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:53:08","slug":"ireland-rugby-portugal-game-needs-to-be-taken-seriously-says-interim-coach-cullie-tucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/ireland-rugby-portugal-game-needs-to-be-taken-seriously-says-interim-coach-cullie-tucker\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland rugby: Portugal game &#8216;needs to be taken seriously&#8217; says interim coach Cullie Tucker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re here to win two games and they&#8217;re going to provide a different challenge to Georgia and a significant one with the heat on top of that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re coached by Simon Mannix, who is a serious operator, so it is going to be a very tough game, and we are going to prepare for it to be tough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tucker took interim charge of Connacht last season after the departure of Pete Wilkins but will return to his role as scrum and contact coach at the province after Ireland&#8217;s summer tour to work under new boss Stuart Lancaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the experience away as a coach with Ireland under O&#8217;Connell has been hugely beneficial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been a brilliant experience, it is always good to get in with new coaches, but the calibre of coaching has been outstanding,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is great to work with them and everyone is across each other, so it is great to have that environment. We&#8217;re being really accurate with the messages we have been delivering, and Paul has been driving that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/ckg3mxem3ddo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re here to win two games and they&#8217;re going to provide a different challenge to Georgia and a significant one with the heat on top of that. &#8220;They&#8217;re coached by Simon Mannix, who is a serious operator, so it is going to be a very tough game, and we are going to prepare for it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32002,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32000\/revisions\/32002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}