• Coach relaxed Aviva Stadium is venue for Champions Cup semi• ‘One of our supporters makes up for 10 of the opposition’Scarlets’ head coach, Wayne Pivac, says the prospect of facing Leinster in Dublin holds no fears for his players and has questioned …
Former All Black is gunning for European Champions Cup glory before he goes to Japan but obdurate Munster stand in his wayRacing is not a word associated with Dan Carter’s running style, which is more a languid glide as he assesses his options with def…
• Leinster 30-19 Saracens• Leavy on scoresheet as Irish side set up semi-final with ScarletsThe jerseys were blue rather than green but otherwise this was an entirely familiar Anglo-Irish storyline. Leinster are through to the last four of the European…
• Leinster 30-19 Saracens• Leavy on scoresheet as Irish side set up semi-final with ScarletsThe jerseys were blue rather than green but otherwise this was an entirely familiar Anglo-Irish storyline. Leinster are through to the last four of the European…
Leinster second-row believes Irish strength at the breakdown may be crucial against the European championsSaracens, who retained the Champions Cup last season, face Leinster in Dublin on Sunday cast in the unfamiliar role of underdogs, having crawled i…
A Champions Cup quarter-final at the Aviva Stadium is next up for the Saracens and former South Africa flankerSchalk Burger has a vineyard that sprawls over 180 hectares of Western Cape countryside waiting for him as soon as he decides to retire. Had …
• Saracens captain had metal plate put in cheek on Tuesday• Champions Cup quarter-final is in Dublin on SundayBrad Barritt will lead Saracens in their Champions Cup quarter-final against Leinster after displaying miraculous powers of recovery from a br…
• Farrell ‘touch and go’ to be fit for Challenge Cup quarter-final• ‘I’ll do whatever the team needs. We all want to play the big games’Alex Lozowski is ready to lead the Saracens backline against Leinster in the European Challenge Cup quarter?final in…
Saracens became the only Premiership club to gain a European Champions Cup quarter-final place, Scarlets were the comeback kids and injuries made grim viewing for GatlandWasps must be kicking themselves for their late capitulation at Harlequins the pre…
Saracens have their former local rivals to thank as they scrape into quarter-finals but Scarlets are the real ones to watchIn the end it could have been worse. At no stage in the history of European club rugby have England’s clubs endured a leaner pool…
• Leinster’s Seán O’Brien to miss start of Six Nations after hip operation• Liam Williams starts for Saracens in make-or-break trip to OspreysChris Robshaw is absent from the Harlequins team to face Wasps after picking up what the club have described a…
Leinster full-back will make his European debut against Glasgow on Sunday and is one of a number of rising stars who should make Ireland a potent force at the 2019 World CupThe name Jordan Larmour sounds like a throwback to Hollywood’s golden age. Eith…
Of the five Champions Cup groups, Pool 5 looks like going down to the final weekend – with one point separating the top three: Bath, Toulon and ScarletsTake nothing away from Wasps’ hugely impressive victory against La Rochelle but the absence of Victo…
• Pool 3: Leinster 22-17 Exeter• Exeter Chiefs face struggle to reach Champions Cup quarter-finalsPart of the Great English Humiliation last weekend, Exeter were one of those not quite disgraced then and here their dignity was way beyond reproach. Yet …
La Rochelle shine on the biggest stage, England’s finest freeze and the Welsh dragon roars as crunch time approaches in Champions CupHave a side ever taken to Europe as well as La Rochelle? It is supposed to require years of failure and frustration – o…
• Exeter 8-18 Leinster• Third defeat of an English team by an Irish province in a weekendThis has not been a happy weekend for English clubs in the Champions Cup, either on the field or weather-wise. Not a single victory from five completed fixtures, t…
• Warriors’ hopes effectively ended by 34-18 defeat to Leinster• Tries by Conor Murray and Andrew Conway clinch Munster’s 14-7 winTwo Cian Healy tries subjected Glasgow to another harsh lesson in European rugby as they lost 34-18 at home to Leinster. W…
• Leinster 24-17 Montpellier• Russian side Krasny Yar shock Stade Français in SiberiaLeinster made light of the absence of Johnny Sexton with a winning start to their European Champions Cup campaign, beating Montpellier 24-17 at the RDS Arena.Sexton ha…
Wasps must learn to deal with unfavourable situations if they are to move on but there were many Lions pointers as Saracens beat GlasgowHome is where the heartache is not in Europe. As Wasps reflect on a European campaign in which they have won only in…
• Leinster 32-17 Wasps
• Young full-back sets up two of four tries as Irish side reach semi-final
Leinster made April fools of Wasps in a meeting of the league leaders that was so one-sided it looked more like top against bottom. Just as England had been knocked out of their stride here two weeks ago, so Wasps needed more time than they were given by opponents they comfortably defeated twice last season. After providing three semi-finalists last season, England will supply no more than one this year.
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