{"id":20624,"date":"2025-10-03T23:52:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T23:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/urc-scarlets-trip-to-connacht-called-off-because-of-storm-amy\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T23:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T23:52:50","slug":"urc-scarlets-trip-to-connacht-called-off-because-of-storm-amy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/urc-scarlets-trip-to-connacht-called-off-because-of-storm-amy\/","title":{"rendered":"URC: Scarlets trip to Connacht called off because of Storm Amy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The United Rugby Championship (URC) match between Scarlets and Connacht in Galway has been postponed because of Storm Amy.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sides were due to meet at Dexcom Stadium at 13:45 BST on Saturday but Scarlets\u2019 travel to Ireland was hampered by the weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their plane was diverted to Manchester after failed efforts to land at Dublin Airport and they could not take off on another flight because of cancellations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The game could not be put back a day because Scarlets face Stormers in Llanelli next Friday which would have meant a five-day turnaround.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The URC said it will now consider available dates with broadcasters and Connacht and Scarlets to reschedule the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Friday&#8217;s fixture between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/crl5w9x2p03o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Edinburgh and Ulster had already been postponed<\/a> due to adverse conditions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/ce84p8nwx30o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Rugby Championship (URC) match between Scarlets and Connacht in Galway has been postponed because of Storm Amy. The sides were due to meet at Dexcom Stadium at 13:45 BST on Saturday but Scarlets\u2019 travel to Ireland was hampered by the weather. Their plane was diverted to Manchester after failed efforts to land at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20626,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20624\/revisions\/20626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}