Fofana try fires Clermont to victory
1 decade ago by Super Sport.comClermont Auvergne overcame a battling Saracens side 13-9 in an intense and brutal European Champions Cup semifinal in St Etienne on Saturday. The French team will play holders Toulon or Ireland's Leinster...
Clermont: This is our year
1 decade ago by Rugby 365Nick Abendanon believes this is going to be ASM Clermont Auvergne's season and that the French side can finally win the European Cup after so many years of trying. The England fullback played another...
Clermont Auvergne 13 Saracens 9, match report: Visitors battle bravely but left to contemplate what could've been
1 decade ago by Telegraph Rugby NewsOne of the great European occasions. It might not have been one of the great rugby spectacles, but it was a tense and compelling match of quite jaw-dropping muscularity, as two of the competition’s...
Clermont march into the Final
1 decade ago by Rugby 365Clermont scored a hard-earned 13-9 win over Saracens in Saint Etienne on Saturday to become the first team to reach the 2015 European Champions Cup Final. They will play the winner of Sunday's encounter...
England head coach Stuart Lancaster will snub Steffon Armitage for Rugby World Cup squad - and rightly so
1 decade ago by The TelegraphThe time has come. For the entirety of this international season, too many observers have been trying to draw Rugby World Cup conclusions from every little moment. It has been rather tiresome, if...
Clermont Auvergne v Saracens, European Champions Cup: Brad Barritt the rock to rely on in hardest places
1 decade ago by Telegraph Rugby NewsThe warrior sat with his marks of battle, the scabby, scraped knee testimony to Brad Barritt’s return to action last weekend against Leicester. His next outing will be anything but run-of-the-mill...
Barnes: Too late for Nick
1 decade ago by Sky Sports RugbyStuart Barnes believes Nick Abendanon is England’s best full-back but does not see the Clermont man forcing his way into Stuart Lancaster’s squad for the World Cup this autumn.
Clermont Auvergne v Saracens (Sat)
1 decade ago by BBC Rugby NewsOwen Farrell is set to return from injury after being named on the Saracens bench for the Champions Cup semi-final against Clermont Auvergne. The England fly-half has been out of action...
Champions Cup preview: Will Greenwood looks ahead to Clermont vs Saracens and Toulon vs Leinster
1 decade ago by The TelegraphClermont vs Saracens A repeat of last year's semi-final only in a different location. Clermont are the weaker side mentally and as a result will benefit from their French semi-location. At Twickenham...
European Champions Cup semi-finals: A statistical preview
1 decade ago by Rugby WorldAhead of this weekend's Champions Cup semi-finals, Jack D'Arcy takes a look at the key statistics from the tournament to dateRunning man: Nick Abendanon makes his way through the Munster defence....
