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Quater Final Line-up Munster v Ulster Leinster v Blues Edinburgh v Toulouse Saracens v Clermont Auvergne Semi Final Draw Winner of Game 4 home to Winner of Game 2 Winner of Game 1 home to Winner of Game 3

What a finish to pool 6. Gloucester beat Toulouse, but Connacht save their skins by getting their 1st ever HEC win against Harlequins. Quins are now sweating on other results to see if they qualify in one of the two best runner up spots. Also Toulouse wil be away in the quarters. No one will...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/16650099.stm Will be interesting to see who takes over and what fresh ideas they bring with them.

Lee 3rd best Fly Half in Ireland woud be Ian Humphrey's younger brother of David who used to vie with ROG for the 10 shirt for Ireland. He plays with Ulster at 10 where Wallace in 12 and his back up. The fact the Humprey's is knocking on 30 might be a reason he wasn't considered for selection...

Lee RoG was talked out of it almost immediately and he did an interview "correcting" himself saying he meant he'd be done for the season and on holiday soon rather than done with Ireland. But looking at the initial interview and his obvious emotion it's hard to doubt that he initially meant...

He's just signed for Sarries for next season so maybe that also had a part in him being dropped.

Very disappointed if not very surprised by this squad. It's up to the selectors to make the tough decisions to retire older fringe players. Unless a centrally contracted Irish player is retiring completely from the game it makes no financial sense for them to retire from International duty...

Lee I agree on the other players you mentioned should be out of the international squad. G. Murphy has already retired from international duty after the WC, as he said himself a case of jumping before he was pushed. But he did raise a very interesting point. Talking about the other players who...

I think England are doing the right thing having a cul of the older members of the squad and giving youth a chance. Despite winning the 6Ns last year, over the last 4-5 years England have been well behind France, Ireland and Wales. There are some promising young players in the English game. As...

Clermont v Ulster will definitely be one of the ties of the final round of pool games. Leinster and Muster both qualified last week but both made hard work of their wins. But probably best to have a blip now than in the quarters. I'm also looking forward to Gloucester v Toulouse and...

No problem at all paddy. I'm happy to be corrected so that the right information is shared. Didn't get to see last nights games as I've been sick the last few days. Would have loved to see the Ulster Leicester game. What a result for Ulster. Leicester are now out baring some very strange...

Qwerty it's not known before the pools are over, but come the last round of games you can probably have a good guess. Qualifying works like this: The top team in each of the 6 pools qualify, then the 2 runners up with the most points qualify also. After that the 8 qualifiers are ranked 1 to...

See, told you I had a fist growing out of my stomach.

Pokemon gotta catch em all.

In the 6Ns the pictures are provided by the host broadcaster. Here's one from the BBC but obviously the actual filming was done by the Italians. Here's a "normal" camera positioning for the 6Ns as a comparison It's little things like the camera is either miles away from the action or...

I think this is great news. The only worry is that in the US they tend to try for massive success from the start (ala their soccer league) and if that doesn't happen backers pull out pretty quickly. Also Rugby is a very community oriented sport so will be interesting to see how it works in what...

Looking forward to seeing Fofana in this years 6Ns. He's been one of the stand out players so far in the HEC. France as usual have probably the strongest squad in the 6Ns but not necessarily the strongest team. Still as long as their bogey team (England) don't do a number on them I'd expect...

Irish Union support for many years. Only watch league on TV if there really isn't anything else on and I can't be bothered switching the TV off. Would watch a schoolboys Union game on TV ahead of any League game. For me 7s is one step above League in terms of watchability. But I'll still be...

My predictions are for 2012 are: France for the 6Ns Australia for the rugby championship Wales to struggle in the 6Ns despite their undoubted talent Italy t ocause a few upsets throughout the year Argentina to dish out a few bloody noses in the rugby championship Someone to come up with a...

I love that fans can mix before, during and after games with no trouble at all, share a few drinks and talk rugby for hours no matter who you support. ABs excepted I like how competitive the game is at international level is and how unpredictable the games were in the RWC. I really enjoyed...