Following the conclusion of the Round 22 RaboDirect PRO12 games on Saturday, the line up for the Play-Offs can now be confirmed. Top seed Leinster will host fourth placed Glasgow Warriors at the RDS, Dublin, on Saturday 12 May (kick-off 7.35pm), whilst the second and third placed teams, Ospreys and Munster, will face each other […]
The RaboDirect PRO12 will have more than a million good reasons to celebrate this weekend when the gates for the season break through the seven figure mark in record time. There has been a growth of 6.2% in attendances over the course of the season at the RaboDirect PRO12 games as fans have flocked to […]
Edinburgh Rugby’s ‘Flying Dutchman’ Tim Visser has winged his way into the RaboDirect PRO12 Dream Team for the third year in a row. Visser, who qualifies to play for Scotland this summer, is once again the leading try scorer in the RaboDirect PRO12 and has bagged 36 tries in 56 appearances for Edinburgh up to […]
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 […]
Top seeded Leinster will play the fourth seeded team on Saturday May 12th at 19.35pm in the RDS. The fourth seeded team will be confirmed after Round 22 of the RaboDirect PRO12, on Saturday May 5th. The other Play-off between second and third placed seeds will take place on Friday May 11th at 19.35pm. Venue […]
The preliminary Ulster squad to face Leinster in the RaboDirect PRO12 on Friday has been named (Ravenhill, kick off 7.05pm). Paul Marshall has been ruled out an ultrasound scan has revealed that he has sustained some tendon damage to his right elbow. The scrumhalf was injured in the act of scoring a try for Ulster […]
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 […]
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 […]