Five times Bath Rugby have needed a last-day win to make the...
1 decade ago by Bath ChronicleBath go into their final Champions Cup pool four match with Glasgow Warriors knowing they need to win to qualify for the quarter-finals.It's not the first time The Rec side have gone into the final...
Wasps 20-20 Leinster | European Rugby Champions Cup Pool 2 match report
1 decade ago by The GuardianWasps 20-20 LeinsterLeinster survived a late Wasps fight back to book their place in the Champions Cup quarter-finals despite a 20-20 draw in Coventry. The three-times Heineken Cup champions let a 14-point...
Denton believes 2012 Euro run can inspire Edinburgh
1 decade ago by The ScotsmanIT WOULD be foolish to view Edinburgh’s form in the European Challenge Cup this season as comparable to their achievement in reaching the Heineken Cup semi-finals three years ago.
Champions Cup refreshes the parts the old Heineken could not reach | Dean Ryan
1 decade ago by The GuardianThe European competition reaches its final round of games with only one of the eight quarter-finalists already determinedTime for a round of applause. So stand up the architects of the Champions Cup. A...
Toulouse 18-35 Bath | European Rugby Champions Cup match report
1 decade ago by The Guardian• Magic of Bath centres cuts Toulouse defence to ribbons• Their displays give England selectors a powerful nudge Bath have had some champagne moments this season but this was a vintage display by anyone’s...
Neil Francis: Unacceptably poor performance requires an apology to supporters as Reds' frailties laid bare
1 decade ago by Irish IndependentHours before the 2008 Heineken Cup Final between Munster and Toulouse I was sitting in the press room in the Millennium Stadium waiting for the excitement to unfold.
Newcastle Falcons showing rapid improvement under Dean Richards
1 decade ago by The Guardian• Mark McCall says Falcons are ‘different proposition’• Dean Richards praises attack coach Dave Walder• Match report: Newcastle 23-25 SaracensBack in April, when Saracens last visited the Premiership’s...
Ulster Rugby had no luck on European trail, insists Gary Longwell
1 decade ago by Belfast Telegraph: RugbyGary Longwell, one of the key figures in Ulster's solitary Heineken Cup victory, believes that the stars just did not align for the province the way they did for him and his team-mates back in 1999.
Rugby’s Champions Cup shines as pool stage perfection defies prediction | Dean Ryan
1 decade ago by The GuardianIt was designed to be fairer format that offered a stern test of the best, and so far it seems to have got it right• Robert Kitson: Bath and Wasps glow as English clubs get lively New name, new format,...
Lineen fancies Glasgow to turn tables on Toulouse
1 decade ago by The ScotsmanSEAN Lineen has urged Glasgow to take encouragement from their gruelling 19-11 European Rugby Champions Cup defeat by Toulouse on Sunday ahead of their Pool 4 re-match with the four-time Heineken Cup winners...
