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Posted 736 days ago
Director of rugby Jim Mallinder says that the Northampton Saints team is looking forward to taking on Leinster at the Millennium Stadium in tomorrow’s Heineken Cup final.
The Saints travelled to Cardiff in December during the pool stages, but tomorrow they will head back over the Severn Bridge for the Heineken Cup showpiece occasion to face a Leinster team that lifted…
Posted 741 days ago
By Sarah Mockford, Rugby World Features Editor
SO THE Magners League Grand Final is decided; it will be an all-Ireland affair between Munster and Leinster, the top two in the end-of-season table going head-to-head at Thomond Park on Saturday 28 May.
Leinster sealed their place with an 18-3 win over Ulster on Friday night. It was a comfortable win for the Dubliners…
Posted 743 days ago
By Sarah Mockford, Rugby World Features Editor
THE MAGNERS LEAGUE finalists will be decided this weekend with Ireland guaranteed at least one team in the season’s climax. Ulster visit Leinster on Friday night and the following evening Munster host defending champions the Ospreys.
It will be the fifth time the Ospreys have played Munster this season, with results currently 3-1 in the…
Posted 744 days ago
Brian O’Driscoll will make his 150th appearance for Leinster when they take on Ulster in the Magners League semi-final on Friday night. He will partner Gordon D’Arcy in the centre, in a team that includes six Ireland internationals in the backline alone. Fergus McFadden, who kicked 18 points against Glasgow last weekend, starts on the right wing while scrum-half Isaac…
Posted 777 days ago
Leinster head coach Joe Schmidt admitted his side were “in pieces” after their defeat of Leicester in the Saturday’s Heineken Cup quarter-final. The game proved to be a fiercely physical battle, and Schmidt hailed the Dublin crowd for keeping his team going towards the end of the game.
“The crowd didn’t quite get it for us but they certainly helped,” said…
Posted 777 days ago
Leicester were defeated 17-10 by Leinster in Saturday’s Heineken Cup quarter-final at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, in a match which saw many of England’s internationals return to the scene of their Six Nations defeat to Ireland.
The likes of Toby Flood, Ben Youngs, Dan Cole and Tom Croft returned to the scene of the crime hoping to right the wrongs…
Posted 784 days ago
Leinster threw away an 11-point half-time lead to lose 23-24 to Munster at Thomond Park on Saturday night. The visitors had looked the far more dangerous team in the first half, with Shane Horgan scoring the only try of the match, and their defence held firm in the second to prevent Munster crossing the whitewash. But the hosts came out firing…
Posted 784 days ago
Munster coach Tony McGahan praised his side’s attitude and spirit on Saturday night having watched them come back from an 11-point deficit at half-time to defeat Leinster 24-23 in the Magners League.
The first half went the way of the visitors as Shane Horgan, who was making his 200th appearance for Leinster, scored the game’s only try. The teams went in…
Posted 785 days ago
Munster go into Saturday evening’s provincial derby clash as 4/7 favourites to beat in-form Leinster according to Ladbrokes. The Thomond Park showdown will be a chance for redemption for the Munster men who have been on the end of a Leinster beating in the last 5 meetings. Despite their top form in the Heineken Cup and Magners League, Leinster are…
Posted 793 days ago
Leinster’s Mike Ross is the latest international to commit his future to playing in Ireland. The prop has penned a deal to keep him firmly rooted until the end of the 2012-13 season.
31-year-old Ross, who returned to Ireland from Harlequins in 2009, has won 7 Ireland caps, and featured in every game of Ireland’s Six Nations campaign.
He said: “It’s been…
