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Jimmy Gopperth: Winning kick is something I will never forget

1 decade ago by Belfast Telegraph: Rugby

Champions Cup hero Jimmy Gopperth says he will never forget the kick that took Wasps into a first major European semi-final for nine years.

Saracens’ Brad Barritt must turn up intensity faster in Wasps semi-final

1 decade ago by The Guardian

• Saracens defeat Northampton 29-20 after a sluggish start • Barritt’s side face Wasps in European Champions Cup last fourAfter the pyrotechnics in Coventry, here was a curious quarter-final, notable...

Wasps and Exeter deliver classic that leaves both sides asking: what next?

1 decade ago by The Guardian

Exeter will be wondering how they recover after playing so well in defeat in the European Champions Cup quarter-final while Wasps must build on victory to prepare for even greater challengesIt was a glorious...

Leicester run free and wild in dispatching a disjointed Stade Français

1 decade ago by The Guardian

• Leicester 41-13 Stade FrançaisA grand slam has already been safely delivered and now English club rugby is celebrating its best European season for nine years. Three Premiership teams will feature...

Smith’s Wasps march on in Europe

1 decade ago by TheRoar.com.au

Wallabies great George Smith’s English rugby club Wasps booked a spot in the semi-finals of the European Champions Cup with a dramatic 25-24 victory over Exeter. New Zealander Jimmy Gopperth landed...

Match Reaction: Saracens 29 Northampton Saints 20

1 decade ago by Northampton Saints

Saracens' comeback 29-20 victory against Northampton Saints may have sealed a European Champions Cup semi-final with fellow Aviva Premiership Rugby side Wasps, but Mark McCall believes his charges were...

Match Reaction: Wasps 25 Exeter Chiefs 24

1 decade ago by Exeter Rugby

Wasps director of rugby Dai Young admitted even he had struggled to keep his eyes open for Jimmy Gopperth's decisive conversion, after his side came out on top of a thrilling European encounter with Exeter...

VIDEO: Wasps 25 Exeter Chiefs 24 - match highlights

1 decade ago by Exeter Express & Echo

Watch video highlights of Exeter Chiefs' dramatic European Champions Cup defeat to Wasps at the Ricoh Arena on Saturday. Jimmy Gopperth's late conversion from Charles Piutau's try won the game for the...

Ice-cool Gopperth sets up semi-final derby with Sarries

1 decade ago by Irish Independent

Dai Young hailed Wasps' dramatic late European Champions Cup quarter-final victory over Exeter as "great theatre" after former Leinster out-half Jimmy Gopperth held his nerve amid unbearable tension.