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Posted 752 days ago
Harlequins Director of Rugby Conor O’Shea believes his team’s Amlin Challenge Cup semi-final against Munster at Thomond Park is the “ultimate” test in European rugby.
Harlequins, who won the tournament in 2001 and 2004 and are bidding to become the first club to win the title three times, won the all-English quarter-final against London Wasps 32-22 to earn a trip to…
Posted 758 days ago
Saracens face Gloucester at Vicarage Road on Sunday, kick off 1.30pm, knowing a win would secure a home semi-final in the Aviva Premiership.
But they face a Gloucester side whose win over Northampton Saints earlier in the week leaves them just five points behind Saracens and still with their own hopes of securing a home play-off match – setting up what…
Posted 772 days ago
HARLEQUINS became the second side, and the only English team, in the semi-finals of this year’s Amlin Challenge Cup with their 32-22 victory over London Wasps at the Stoop, writes Rugby World editor Paul Morgan.
The win in this cracking match keeps Harlequins’ season alive although they will have to improve hugely if they are to win in Munster or Brive…
Posted 773 days ago
London Wasps have made four changes to their starting team to face Harlequins in tomorrow night’s Amlin Challenge Cup Quarter-Final. There are two changes in the backs and two in the pack.
Richard Haughton returns on the wing, having recovered from injury. Centre Ben Jacobs is also back from injury and he fills the outside centre berth in the place of Dominic…
Posted 776 days ago
Joe Marler of Harlequins and Marcos Ayerza of Leicester both banned for two weeks after their fight in the Harlequins v Leicester match on Saturday. Both can play again on 19 April so that means they miss this weekend’s big European matches.
They got the same ban following their dismissals for striking with the fist (Marler) and head (Ayerza) respectively during the…
Posted 780 days ago
The 2011 / 2012 Heineken Cup and Amlin Challenge Cup tournaments will kick-off in November 2011, less than three weeks after the Rugby World Cup reaches its climax with the final in Auckland, New Zealand, on 23 October.
Due to the staging of the World Cup, the two European club rugby tournaments will start later than usual. Once the opening two rounds…
Posted 782 days ago
Newcastle Falcons will be requested to answer a Misconduct Complaint in Dublin on Wednesday, 13 April, 2011, under the 2010 / 2011 Amlin Challenge Cup Disciplinary Rules relating to the Bourgoin v Newcastle Falcons Round 6 Amlin Challenge Cup Pool 3 match on Saturday 22 January, 2011, at Stade Pierre Rajon.
An investigation by ERC’s Disciplinary Officer, Roger O’Connor, has found…
Posted 842 days ago
A new structure has been put in place in Connacht that is going to make a big difference to the way the pro game is run in the province.
Eric Elwood says: “First and foremost, a Professional Game Board has been set up with a panel that includes ex-Ireland scrum-half Conor McGuinness and several prominent local businessmen. Among them is a…
Posted 843 days ago
Brive and Munster – both former Heineken Cup champions – will clash in the final Amlin Challenge Cup quarter-final on Saturday, 9 April, at the Stadium Municipal Amédée-Domenech (capacity 15,000). ERC, the tournament organisers, today (Thursday, 27 January, 2011) announced the dates, kick-off times and host broadcasters for the Amlin Challenge Cup quarter-final matches on 7, 8 and 9 April. The all-French…
Posted 847 days ago
The quarter-final line-ups for the Heineken Cup and Amlin Challenge Cup were decided today when the last matches were played at Adams Park and Rodney Parade. And cup organisers immediately made the draw for the semi-finals as well. This is how it is shaping up:
HEINEKEN CUP QUARTER-FINALS (to be played over the weekend of April 8-10)
Northampton v Ulster
Leinster v Leicester
Perpignan…
