POOL 1 Northampton Saints 23 Scarlets 28 HT: 9-21 Attendance: 13,475 Northampton Saints: G Pisi (S Armstrong 71); C Ashton, J Clarke, J Downey, V Artemyev; R Lamb, L Dickson (M Roberts 65); S Tonga'uiha (A Waller 71), D Hartley [capt] (M Haywood 74), B Mujati (P Doran-Jones 71), C Lawes, M Sorenson
Northampton Saints
Heineken Cup – First Round Results (11/12/13.11.2011)
POOL 6 Harlequins 25 Connacht Rugby 17 HT: 19-10 Attendance: 11,856 Harlequins: M Brown, S Stegmann, G Lowe (B Urdapilleta 34), J Turner-Hall, S Smith, N Evans, K Dickson (D Care 50), J Marler, C Brooker (J Gray 59), J Johnston, O Kohn (T Vallejos 14), G Robson, M Faasavalu (L Wallace 72),
Northampton Saints V. Leinster – Most likely the Heineken Cup greatest game ever played
Certainly the 16th ERC showpiece, and the sixth staged in Cardiff, featured the greatest tournament comeback of all time. Leinster were 16 points adrift at the break, yet fought back to score 27 points without response to win the most coveted club rugby title in the world game for the second
16th Heineken Cup Final Lineups – Leinster V Northampton Saints
Leinster: I Nacewa; S Horgan, B O'Driscoll, G D'Arcy, L Fitzgerald; J Sexton, E Reddan; C Healy, R Strauss, M Ross, L Cullen [capt], N Hines, K McLaughlin, S O'Brien, J Heaslip Replacements: J Harris-Wright, H Van Der Merwe, S Wright, D Toner, S Jennings, I Boss, I Madigan, F McFadden Northampton
Heineken Cup 2011/2012 possible qualification scenarios
Stade Français Paris will automatically qualify for the 2011/2012 Heineken Cup tournament if they win the Amlin Challenge Cup final against Harlequins at Cardiff City Stadium tomorrow (Friday) night. But if two English clubs win both ERC tournaments – Harlequins the Amlin Challenge Cup and Northampton Saints the Heineken Cup final
Heineken Cup – Quarter finals feature 40 Championship stars
It is Heineken Cup knock-out time coming up and a host of the stars who featured in the 2011 RBS 6 Nations tournament – including 10 of England’s championship winning squad – should stay firmly fixed under the spotlight and grace the prestigious and high-profile quarter-finals next month. Almost half of
Champions to round off HP quarter final weekend
Reigning champions Toulouse will round off the 2011 Heineken Cup quarter-finals when they clash with Biarritz Olympique on Sunday, 10 April, at the 32,000 capacity Estadio Anoeta in San Sebastian in a repeat of last season’s all-French tournament final. ERC, the tournament organisers, today (Wednesday, 26 January, 2011) announced the dates,