{"id":41,"date":"2014-04-29T12:55:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T12:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/?p=41"},"modified":"2014-06-02T20:43:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T20:43:15","slug":"connacht-squad-update-ahead-cardiff-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/connacht-squad-update-ahead-cardiff-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Connacht Squad Update ahead of Cardiff game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/connacht-rugby1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/connacht-rugby1-300x119.jpg\" alt=\"connacht rugby\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/connacht-rugby1-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/connacht-rugby1.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nConnacht Squad Update ahead of Cardiff game <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s back to PRO12 action this week as Connacht welcome Cardiff Blues to Galway for the penultimate round of the league and the final home game of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Following a week&#8217;s break from games, Pat Lam&#8217;s men are looking forward to taking on the Welsh side who sit just three points ahead of them in 8th place on the table.  <\/p>\n<p>In terms of squad availability, substitute hooker Dave Heffernan has returned to training after missing the last round against Munster with a hamstring injury. The 23-year-old who recently signed a contract extension to play at the Sportsground next season will be available for selection this week.<\/p>\n<p>Backs Fionn Carr and Craig Ronaldson have also resumed full training and are available to the coaches ahead of the team announcement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nathan White (calf), Tiernan O&#8217;Halloran (quad) and Paul O&#8217;Donohoe (back) remain unavailable.  <\/p>\n<p>Tickets for Saturday&#8217;s game v Cardiff Blues are available online from tickets.ie, the Connacht Rugby office and selected Centra and SuperValu stores province-wide.<\/p>\n<p>Connacht v Cardiff Blues  At the Sportsground, 5pm<br \/>\nReferee: Neil Paterson (SRU, 60th competition game)<br \/>\nAssistant Referees: Dudley Phillips, Olly Hodges (both IRFU)<br \/>\nCiting Commissioner: Wayne Sheridan (IRFU) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connacht Squad Update ahead of Cardiff game It&#8217;s back to PRO12 action this week as Connacht welcome Cardiff Blues to Galway for the penultimate round of the league and the final home game of the season. Following a week&#8217;s break from games, Pat Lam&#8217;s men are looking forward to taking on the Welsh side who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[49,33,4,48],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","tag-cardiff","tag-connacht","tag-squad","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}