{"id":12398,"date":"2026-04-07T16:47:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12398"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:47:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:47:59","slug":"ulster-rugby-herring-and-doak-injury-doubts-for-challenge-cup-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12398","title":{"rendered":"Ulster Rugby: Herring and Doak injury doubts for Challenge Cup quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ulster have confirmed that Rob Herring and Nathan Doak are injury doubts for Friday&#8217;s Challenge Cup quarter-final against La Rochelle (20:00 BST).<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Herring (calf) and Doak (ankle) both picked up injuries in Saturday&#8217;s 28-24 victory over Ospreys at the Affidea Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scrum-half Doak made his international debut in the Six Nations and has been influential in Ulster&#8217;s impressive form this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stewart Moore (knee), Rory McGuire (shoulder), James McNabney (knee), Michael Lowry (groin) and Robert Baloucoune (elbow) will remain sidelined this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richie Murphy&#8217;s side face La Rochelle for a spot in the Challenge Cup semi-finals with the northern province unbeaten in their past two games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This weekend&#8217;s visitors defeated Newcastle Red Bulls 26-18 to reach the last eight and have won three of their past four fixtures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Montpellier host Connacht, Benetton welcome Exeter Chiefs and Zebre face Dragons in the other quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ulster have confirmed that Rob Herring and Nathan Doak are injury doubts for Friday&#8217;s Challenge Cup quarter-final against La Rochelle (20:00 BST). Herring (calf) and Doak (ankle) both picked up injuries in Saturday&#8217;s 28-24 victory over Ospreys at the Affidea Stadium. Scrum-half Doak made his international debut in the Six Nations and has been influential<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}