The RaboDirect PRO12 champions, in line with all other professional rugby union tournaments throughout the world, will be decided by a Play-Off. The competition is one of the latest tournaments to adopt this method of choosing their champions – South Africa’s Currie Cup final was first contested in 1939, whilst the French can trace their […]
Enniskillen ladies took to a sunny Mullaghmeen to play Barnhall in their last league fixture of the season after a rather long break of 5 weeks without a match. The lack of match practice didn’t show, with the ‘Skins girls piling on the pressure from the outset. Some strong running, and great ball retention, from […]
The end of the 2011/12 RaboDirect PRO12 season is fast approaching, and the first team to claim a place in the Play-Offs has been confirmed; Leinster, with an unassailable lead of 73 points, have booked themselves a home slot and number 1 seeding. Their opponents are still undecided, and with just seven points separating the […]
In this, Carrick’s penultimate game of the season it was too little, too late to redeem a two point deficit against their Co Cavan opponents. The game played at a bright & sunny Rifle Park Banbridge was the league playoff decider with Virginia taking the honours in what was always going to be a closely […]
The pick of the round must be the game at Musgrave Park on Saturday night, when third place Munster take on fourth placed Glasgow Warriors. Both teams are level in the table on 56 points, defeat for either could leave the way open for fifth placed Ulster, just one point behind on 55, to leapfrog […]
With just three rounds of the regular season left, the position at the top of the RaboDirect PRO12 has, if anything, become even tighter. The two Welsh Regions losses to the two Scottish teams has severely hampered their changes of making it into the top four, whilst Leinster returned to their winning ways beating reigning […]
2nd XV vs Queen’s (15 – 12) 2 XV League Dungannon performed better with the elements in the first half , Queen’s came back strongly but failed to close the gap as Gannon ran out 15-12 winners. Dungannon opened the scoring after three minutes when Plunkett McCallon burst through from outside the twenty-two to touch […]
The top of the table clash between Munster and Leinster must be the pick of this weekend’s Rabodirect PRO12 Round 19 games. Having lost their impressive unbeaten run to Ospreys last week, Leinster will want to avoid a second defeat that could cut their lead at the top of the table and potentially affect their […]