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Official EPCR Champions Cup Preview Thread - A New Hope

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    #1322
    ssaye2
    Registered Users Posts: 4,632 ✭✭✭ssaye2


    http://www.epcrugby.com/officials/index.php


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    #1323
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,587 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    http://m.epcrugby.com/news/30479.php

    Next season's dates - as usual in World Cup years it's a November start.

    Of special note though is that the final gets its mid-May slot back and, though avowedly for one year only, the winners of the Challenge Cup will get their Champions Cup place back.


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    #1324
    .ak
    Registered Users Posts: 30,308 Mod ✭✭✭✭.ak


    What's the point of having it for one year only..?

    Like, are they just gonna scrap the challenge cup?


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    #1325
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,587 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    They say "to facilitate the Rugby World Cup" which will have been over six months at that point, so I'm not sure how it does so. My best guess is that Premiership Rugby plan to play regular season games up until the end of May next season, as they can't start till mid October, and they won't run the play offs during the June international window.


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    #1326
    vienne86
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    Leinster
    I really like the idea of challenge cupwinners getting intothe Champions cup the following year.


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    #1327
    .ak
    Registered Users Posts: 30,308 Mod ✭✭✭✭.ak


    vienne86 wrote: »
    I really like the idea of challenge cupwinners getting intothe Champions cup the following year.

    Well it's always been the incentive during the last competition. Think it's ridiculous that they dropped it.


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    #1328
    matthew8
    Registered Users Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭matthew8


    Leinster
    Don't think Lacey is giving Northampton much but they are having yet another European collapse. This is a fiasco though Clermont doing very well of course.


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    #1329
    Guy:Incognito
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    Hard to see beyond a Clermont - Toulon Final.


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    #1330
    ssaye2
    Registered Users Posts: 4,632 ✭✭✭ssaye2


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Hard to see beyond a Clermont - Toulon Final.

    Two mediocre teams.


    Ha playing unreal.


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    #1331
    matthew8
    Registered Users Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭matthew8


    Leinster
    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Hard to see beyond a Clermont - Toulon Final.

    Racing might be a different proposition to the English sides for Clermont (even Saracens might do better away from SMM) but if Toulon are on form it's so hard to see past them.


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    #1332
    aimee1
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    watching clermont today is like watching leinster rip saints apart in FG last season.


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    #1333
    its_phil
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭its_phil


    aimee1 wrote: »
    watching clermont today is like watching leinster rip saints apart in FG last season.

    I'd say it's better but I should watch the tape of FG first. Bod and Luke on fire that night


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    #1334
    aimee1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭aimee1


    naughty from cudmore?


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    #1335
    ssaye2
    Registered Users Posts: 4,632 ✭✭✭ssaye2


    Has anyone been nilled in a euro qf


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    #1336
    dastardly00
    Registered Users Posts: 13,331 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    It was looking like Saints would score.... But Clrrmont turn it over and run the length of the field. 37-0.


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    #1337
    ssaye2
    Registered Users Posts: 4,632 ✭✭✭ssaye2


    Ooh mad one end to other a hammering


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    #1338
    Greyian
    Registered Users Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Greyian


    ssaye2 wrote: »
    Has anyone been nilled in a euro qf

    Wikipedia says no.

    Surely they'll manage a score with Clermont down to 14 though.


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    #1339
    Bridge93
    Registered Users Posts: 7,018 ✭✭✭Bridge93


    What's the record victory margin in knockout games?


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    #1340
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Northampton
    Ha.

    I'm not sure, maybe the French teams don't have difficult enough qualification or something else unfair that is resulting in this thumping. I think we need a new championship next year as something is clearly unfair for Northampton here.


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    #1341
    dastardly00
    Registered Users Posts: 13,331 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    ssaye2 wrote: »
    Has anyone been nilled in a euro qf

    Had a quick look at the results through the years. I don't think any team ever failed to score in the knock-out stages.

    In '07-08 Munster beat Gloucester 16-3.
    In '03-04 Wasps beat Gloucester 34-3.
    In '99-00 Scarlets beat Cardiff 22-3.


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    #1342
    dastardly00
    Registered Users Posts: 13,331 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    Bridge93 wrote: »
    What's the record victory margin in knockout games?

    Not sure if this is the record margin of victory but in '97-98 Leicester beat Glasgow 90-19 in a quarter-final :eek:


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    #1343
    aimee1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭aimee1


    crazy from lacey, that should have been a card.


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    #1344
    Bridge93
    Registered Users Posts: 7,018 ✭✭✭Bridge93


    Lacey really is a tool, how has he let Waller away with that? Ridiculous


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    #1345
    Rightwing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,101 ✭✭✭Rightwing


    Problem is the top French clubs are just pulling away from everyone else.


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    #1346
    A-Train
    Registered Users Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭A-Train


    How he got away with that is beyond me


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    #1347
    matthew8
    Registered Users Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭matthew8


    Leinster
    Punches him in the face has to be red. Lacey showing mercy to Northampton.


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    #1348
    [Deleted User]
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    Northampton
    How was that not a serious yellow or justifiable red?


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    #1349
    eyeball kid
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    Clermont
    Don't understand how a card wasn't given there.


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    #1350
    dastardly00
    Registered Users Posts: 13,331 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    New try celebration: punch an opposition player after you touch the ball down, and the ref will do sweet fcuk all.


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    #1351
    ssaye2
    Registered Users Posts: 4,632 ✭✭✭ssaye2


    Rightwing wrote: »
    Problem is the top French clubs are just pulling away from everyone else.
    Sexton and a new leinster coach and munster with a new coach and it will be the halcyon days again.....the dream


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