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URC 2024/25

Jump_In_Jack

Looking ahead to the new season, the dates have been confirmed early for both URC and Champions Cup.

https://www.unitedrugby.com/latest/news/full-2024-2025-urc-fixture-list

https://www.epcrugby.com/european-professional-club-rugby/content/2024-25-epcr-season-and-pool-draws-dates

The URC starts Friday 20th September.

The overlap between the Champions Cup playoffs and the URC playoffs and therefore the possible need to manage squads in the latter matches of the league are shown below, week on week:

R5 of the 6 Nations
URC R13
URC R14
CC Rof16
CC QF
URC R15
URC R16
CC SF
URC R17
URC R18
CC F
URC QF
URC SF
URC F
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Ben Bailey

Sharks squeak home 25-22 in a TBP win

Lions get LBP

Ben Bailey

12-7 Sharks at halftime

17-15 after 57 mins

Ben Bailey

Lions score & convert. 5-7 now. Good game this.

Ben Bailey

Sharks open the scoring with a Grant Williams try. Conversion missed. 5-0 after 6 mins

icdg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123239864#Comment_123239864

Kick off 12 noon, TG4 and Prem 1 for TV coverage. That game is the last Round 1 fixture!

Jacovs

Sharks vs Lions tomorrow, then all teams will be on 12 games played.

If Sharks win, no change in standings. If Lions win, they jump to 6th.

Enzokk

Lions do my head in, seems obvious the way they need to play to win is a fast game against the bigger SA teams, but sometimes they get stuck trying to match the others but with inferior players they are doomed to fail.

[Deleted User]

Incredibly tight table.

Connacht have pulled ourselves up to eight but a lot of the other fixtures this weekend saw our rivals gaining points against the odds.

If the Lions and Stormers find some consistent form they have the easiest run ins and will leave everyone else fighting over eighth position.

ersatz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123176657#Comment_123176657

there’s also a lot of ref reviewing baked into online punditry, something that was rarely part of post game analysis until recently. And it’s often framed as “I hate to criticise refs but” yet it’s now a built in component of analysis. We should start referring to many of these (often ex players) as ‘rugby influencers’.

typhoony

Only 7pts seperates 4th from 14th

niallm77

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123223718#Comment_123223718

Munster could still nab 4th. But they need to win (preferably with TBP) away to Glasgow and Connacht immediately after the 6n. NEITHER of those games will be easy.

Sharks lose at home to the Lions next weekend and it makes that last home QF there for any one of about 6 teams. Given the make up of their squad the Sharks should be doing a whole lot better.

bingobango12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123223718#Comment_123223718

Yeah agreed, think Munster win 4/6 and will be fine for top 8. Hopefully it stays this competitive and a couple spots are still open on final round of fixtures weekend.

Ciaran

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123223628#Comment_123223628

Equally it wouldn't be surprising if Munster win 5 out 6. I can't see them missing the top 8 and top 4 is still possible.

Probably 3 of Edinburgh, Stormers, Lions, Scarlets and Ulster will be the last qualifiers because the rest have to go to South Africa.

FACECUTTR

Only 9 points seperate 4th place from 15th place.

Jump_In_Jack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123223592#Comment_123223592

6 points separate the 10 teams between 6th and 15th, 9 teams have won 5 out of 12 matches.

bingobango12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123223592#Comment_123223592

Connacht are 12th no? Unless my app hasn’t updated correctly.

4th-14th is very close. Think Lions and Stormers will both make it with 4 home fixtures each remaining.

Sharks with a game in hand and only on the road for 2 games will be fine.

Would have said Munster should be ok but looking at their fixtures, bar probably Ulster at home, you wouldn’t be 100% confident of a win in any others.

Final spot could be anyone’s. Edinburgh have decent fixtures remaining which might see them sneak in.

pickarooney

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123221916#Comment_123221916

Aaaand straight back down to 15th.

Connacht up 8 places into the playoff positions.

niallm77

Stormers have beaten the bulls. Bulls got LBP

niallm77

Sharks 14-0 down to the Lions after 20. It's raining heavy now too so that's bad news for Connacht.

Good news for Munster so far

Jump_In_Jack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123220536#Comment_123220536

Zebre have moved up to 10th, that’s truly amazing.

darkened_scrum

Feels kind of hard to overstate how bad Munster were yesterday. Edinburgh's previous result was a home loss to Zebre, but they were by a mile the better team yesterday.

realhorrorshow

Only four teams in the league with a record better than .500 currently.

Former Former Former

Three wins on the bounce for Zebre. Jaysus.

icdg

Round 12. Another long break after this one. Two thirds of the way through the regular season now! Unfortunately clashes with the FA Cup last 16 mean three games get the delay treatment from Premier.

Tonight 7:35pm

Munster v Edinburgh TG4 Prem 2

Zebre v Dragons BBC Two Wales (Also Delay, Prem 1 at 12:30am)

Saturday

12:30pm Lions v Sharks (Delay, Prem 1, 10pm)

3pm Bulls v Stormers (Delay, Prem 1, 12 midnight)

3pm Leinster v Cardiff RTE2 S4C Prem 2

5:15pm Ulster v Scarlets RTE2 BBC Two NI S4C Prem 2

7:35pm Connacht v Treviso TG4 Prem 2

7:35pm Glasgow v Ospreys Prem 1

niallm77

Best of luck to him in his psot playing days

https://twitter.com/THESTORMERS/status/1894280355546280334?t=XJu1H3vRH2051WNpIRWDZw&s=19

niallm77

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123205961#Comment_123205961

Brex is off to France next season and there is murmurings of a few more players getting offers. Be a pity if they get gutted again

Dillonb3

Bennetton's coach stepping down at the end of the year. Bit of a surprise I thought they were doing well this season balancing Europe and keeping in playoff hunt for URC

phog

Bulls beat Lions today. Bulls now on 11 matches while Lions still have a match in hand.

Jacovs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123193698#Comment_123193698

Even 5-14 are only separated by 8 points.

I just did a quick check on what impact the bonus points are having up till now, just out of curiosity.

The top 8 stays the same, possibly just Scarlets going 6 with Cardiff and Benetton moving down 1 spot, but still top 8.

Lions and Ospreys jump to 9 and 10 respectively, Edinburgh, Stormers and Connacht down 2 spots each, but bottom 3 stays the same.

PMC83

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123193626#Comment_123193626

10-14 looks interesting, as bad as they have been a playoff spot still possibly there for Connacht should they lift themselves for the last few rounds. Realistically Zebra and Dragons the only ones with nothing to play for.