{"id":21208,"date":"2012-01-24T10:33:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T10:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=21208"},"modified":"2012-01-24T10:33:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T10:33:03","slug":"ulster-reach-a-century-of-heineken-cup-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/ulster-reach-a-century-of-heineken-cup-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster Reach A Century of Heineken Cup Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday&#8217;s hard fought battle against Clermont-Auvergne at the Stade Marcel Michelin marked Ulster&#8217;s 100th game in the Heineken Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Former French International and Heineken Cup Ambassador Raphael Ibanez presented Ulster Branch President Laurence Caldwell with a plaque prior to the match to mark the club&#8217;s 100th appearance in the tournament.<br \/>\nUlster played their first game in the then European Cup back in November 1995 against Cardiff at the Arms Park with a team that included Gary Longwell, Neil Doak and Jonny Bell, all now involved in the coaching set-up.<\/p>\n<p>The Ulster side were on the wrong end of a 46-6 defeat that day, a far cry from their performance in their 100th game last Saturday in Clermont where they lost narrowly 19-15 but still progress to the knock-out stages of the competition.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurosportsdirect.com\/index.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9533\" title=\"Click Here For Eurosports Direct E-Commerce Website\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/euro.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPictured: Heineken Cup Ambassador and former French International Raphael Ibanez presents a plaque to mark Ulster Rugby&#8217;s 100th game in the competition to Ulster Branch President Laurence Caldwell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday&#8217;s hard fought battle against Clermont-Auvergne at the Stade Marcel Michelin marked Ulster&#8217;s 100th game in the Heineken Cup. Former French International and Heineken Cup Ambassador Raphael Ibanez presented Ulster Branch President Laurence Caldwell with a plaque prior to the match to mark the club&#8217;s 100th appearance in the tournament. Ulster played their first game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5888,7735,5519,2994,6373,5749,8594,1997],"class_list":["post-21208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-a","tag-century","tag-cup","tag-heineken","tag-matches","tag-of","tag-reach","tag-ulster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}