RUGBY UNION CHAMPIONS
CUP
SATURDAY
BATH 14- 19 TOULON
HABANA PUTS POOR
TOULON WHERE THEY SHOULD BE
Steffon Armitage and Bryan Habana went over for the French
side either side of half-time at the Rec.
Anthony Watson scored Bath's only try, as George Ford kicked
three penalties
This win would be enough to put Tolun into the quarters but
we have not seen Toloun play as we know that they can. This world cup year has
hurt a lot of teams especially Toulon but I can see them improving a lot for
the quarter finals.
WASPS 51-10 LEINSTER
GOPPERTH STARTS
EVERYTHING FOR WASPS
Dai Young's team got off to the worst possible start after
only two minutes at the Ricoh Arena, when a rapid break saw Zane Kirchner go
over in the right-hand corner for the visitors.
But the Irish province, who finished bottom of the pool,
lost influential fly-half Johnny Sexton to concussion after only 10 minutes and
their afternoon began to unravel.
Jimmy Gopperth converted his own try and England's Joe
Launchbury, on his return from concussion, also went over to put Wasps ahead.
While Wasps front-rower Lorenzo Cittadini was in the
sin-bin, an acrobatic inside pass by Rob Kearney saw Eoin Reddan score
Leinster's second, but it was to be their final points of the match.
Elliot Daly will head to England's Six Nations training camp
on Sunday off the back of a man-of-the-match performance which included a
sensational try.
The Wasps outside centre, as yet uncapped at international
level, raced diagonally from 40 metres out, beating Rob and Dave Kearney, to
touchdown his side's third score of the game.
The bonus point came via a penalty try and Leinster's
defence crumbled again as Daly sent wing Frank Halai over.
Full-back Charles Piutau showed his pace to cross with 10
minutes remaining, before Ashley Johnson stepped off the bench to heap more
misery on Leinster, who were handed their heaviest European defeat to date
There seem to be things that need fixing at Leinster this
season as they finish bottom of the table and I would have saw them as a
quarter finalist. Leinster have a lot of things to sort out before next season
and I hope that they do as they are one of the better teams for the pro 12
GLASGOW 22-5 RACING
METRO
HOGG TRY GIVES
GLASGOW POINTLESS WIN
Finn Russell put Warriors 3-0 ahead at half-time and 19
second-half points to Racing's five - a Cedate Gomes Sa try - put the French
Top 14 leaders away.
The critical score was Stuart Hogg's try midway through the
second period
Eleven points in total from Russell's boot and six more from
Duncan Weir secured the win.
This was a good win for Glasgow but very little else can be
said about it. I think this has been a poor season for Glasgow bot in the pro
12 and in Europe and I think they are good enough to improve. I don’t think
that Racing paid too much attention to the result as they new they were in the
quarter finals last week.
SCARLETS 10-22
NORTHAMPTON
NORTH PUTS
NORTHAMPTON IN QUARTERS
Saints needed maximum points from their final Pool Three
game to stay in with a chance of progressing as one of the best three
runners-up.
And they did it with ease, thanks to tries from Harry
Mallinder, George Pisi, Sam Dickinson and George North.
Rhodri Jones grabbed a late consolation score for the hosts.
TOLOUSE 17-28 SARACENS
MC ALISTER DOUBLE
GOOD ENOUGH FOR UNBEATEN RUN IN EUROPE
The Premiership champions had already secured a home
quarter-final, while their French opponents' hopes of progressing were over.
Three kicks from Charlie Hodgson and a superb score from Ben
Spencer gave the visitors a 12-point advantage.
Toulouse fought back through Maxime Medard's try and a
second from Luke McAlister, but Owen Farrell's late penalties made sure of the
Sarries win.
ULSTER 56-3 OYONNAX
DEMOLUTION MATCH SHOWS
ULSTER HAVE THE CLASS
Rob Herring, Darren Cave, Rory Scholes and Sean Reidy scored
tries to put the hosts 28-3 ahead at half-time.
Craig Gilroy, Robbie Diack, Ian Humphreys and Jared Payne
added touchdowns after the interval.
In my opinion Ulster lost tis both from the time they lead against Saracens at home and against Oyonnax away when they played terribly but just managed to come out with a win but to win in France twice and get no quarter final for any Irish side is heart-breaking
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