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Posted 707 days ago
Bath Rugby is delighted to officially confirm the signing of South African flanker, Francois Louw.
Hailing from Cape Town, Louw will join Bath in November, on a three year deal. The flanker has become an integral part of the Super Rugby Stormers side over the last two seasons, and has represented Western Province over 60 times. The 6ft 4in, 17st 5lb…
Posted 734 days ago
Jonny Wilkinson will be heading home to Newcastle next season after the Pool draw for the 2011 /12 Amlin Challenge Cup paired his French club, Toulon, with the Falcons in Pool 2.
Wilkinson, who scored 2,005 points in 180 appearances for the Falcons in a 12-year stint in the north-east of England, helped Toulon reach the quarter-finals in their first foray…
Posted 743 days ago
ERC are pleased to remind you that the draw tomorrow (Tuesday, 7 June) for the Heineken Cup 2011 / 2012 Pools will be streamed live on www.ercrugby.com at 12.00 noon.
The draw at Twickenham Stadium – the venue for the 17thHeineken Cup final to be played in late May, 2012 – will determine the six Pools of four teams each for European…
Posted 756 days ago
Sean O’Brien has been named as the ERC European Player of the Year for 2011.
The award crowns a magnificent season for the Leinster back row player, who started every one of the Irish province’s nine games as they carried off the Heineken Cup for the second time in three years.
This weekend O’Brien, who also played throughout Ireland’s RBS 6 Nations…
Posted 759 days ago
HARLEQUINS have finally got their hands on a trophy, seven years after winning the Parker Pen Trophy they again lifted rugby’s UEFA Cup, the Amlin Challenge Trophy.
They beat Stade Francais 19-18 at the Cardiff City Stadium and few people in the 12,000 could understand how they managed it.
Stade did the job almost perfectly. Trailing 9-6 at half time the Parisians…
Posted 762 days ago
Quins set out to Cardiff one victory from silverware and a place in next season’s Heineken Cup. Conor O’Shea is able to field the same starting XV which beat Munster in Limerick with the only change being on the bench where Peter Browne comes on to the bench for the unfortunate Tomas Vallejos who broke his thumb in Thomond Park.
The front…
Posted 771 days ago
Romain Poite will referee his first Heineken Cup final when he takes charge of the season’s showpiece European club rugby match between Leinster and Northampton Saints at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday, 21 May (5.00pm).
The 35-year-old French official was on duty during both knock-out stage weekends last month, controlling the Heineken Cup quarter-final between Northampton Saints and Ulster Rugby and…
Posted 776 days ago
An ERC statement confirmed: “Nick Easter, the Harlequins player (No 8), received a red card during the Amlin Challenge Cup semi-final against Munster at Thomond Park, Limerick, on Saturday, 30 April, 2011, as a result of receiving two yellow cards.
“An independent Judicial Officer, Roger Morris (Wales), considered the matter and has determined that the sending-off was a sufficient sanction. Easter…
Posted 778 days ago
ERC has received a Citing Complaint following the 2010/11 Amlin Challenge Cup semi-finals.
The Citing Complaint is against RODRIGO RONCERO (No 1) – Stade Francais Paris (v ASM Clermont Auvergne, on Friday, 29 April, 2011)
The complaint was made by Citing Commisioner, Alan Mansell (England). Roncero is alleged to have carried out a late body check with his shoulder…
Posted 780 days ago
Harlequins will face Stade Francais Paris at the Cardiff City Stadium on Friday, 20 May in the final of the Amlin Challenge Cup after becoming only the third team in European history to beat Munster at home.
Following in the footsteps of Cardiff in 1997 and Leicester Tigers in 2007, both in the Heineken Cup, Harlequins marched into their third Amlin…
