{"id":59478,"date":"2013-12-05T16:15:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T16:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=59478"},"modified":"2013-12-05T16:23:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T16:23:25","slug":"daily-mail-exclusive-ulster-prop-court-just-loves-proving-critics-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/daily-mail-exclusive-ulster-prop-court-just-loves-proving-critics-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY MAIL EXCLUSIVE Ulster prop Court just loves proving critics wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Court cuts to the chase. His biggest influence on the pitch? Critics and proving them wrong.<br \/>\n\u2018It\u2019s been that way since I first started playing rugby,\u2019 explains the Ulster prop from Australia, who qualifies for Ireland through his grandparents.<br \/>\n\u2018I was in the Queensland Reds academy in my mid-20s with 17 and 18-year-olds looking at me going, &#8220;what the hell is he doing here\u201d? A lot of people said: &#8216;You will never play top-level rugby, you will never go on to do anything really in your career&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on this link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/article-2518515\/EXCLUSIVE-Ulster-prop-Tom-Court-just-loves-proving-critics-wrong.html#ixzz2mcLEGb1Z\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/article-2518515\/EXCLUSIVE-Ulster-prop-Tom-Court-just-loves-proving-critics-wrong.html#ixzz2mcLEGb1Z<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Court cuts to the chase. His biggest influence on the pitch? Critics and proving them wrong. \u2018It\u2019s been that way since I first started playing rugby,\u2019 explains the Ulster prop from Australia, who qualifies for Ireland through his grandparents. \u2018I was in the Queensland Reds academy in my mid-20s with 17 and 18-year-olds looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13354],"tags":[8215,13175,6025,13355,4792,1997],"class_list":["post-59478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tom-court-2","tag-court","tag-daily","tag-exclusive","tag-mail","tag-prop","tag-ulster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59478","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=59478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59481,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59478\/revisions\/59481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}