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Half time Biaritz 0-0 Saracens. Mistakes all over the place but still entertaining. Saracens getting monstered in the scrum apart from the one that counted on their own line where they won it against the head.

Some interesting results tonight. Cardiff Blues 24-18 London Irish Clermont 54-3 Aironi Edinburgh 48-47 Racing Metro Northampton 23-28 Scarlets Already looking like uphill struggles for both Northampton and London Irish to get out of their pools. Scarlets and Blues continue a great start to...

I hope Munster don't end up moving any of their home games. Even as a Leinster fan a HEC game at Thomond is a something to look forward to watching. Any English club who move their own home game against Munster wont actually be moving it to a neutral venue. Munster fans travel in numbers other...

Saracens have moved the game to London.

Wouldn't be surprised if he's touted for the USA head coach job. Eddie O'Sullivan has just vacated the role and from a PR perspective MJ would be a good fit. However I don't think that it would be right for either party. MJ kinda shot himself in the foot by taking the England job as his first...

Mallinder as head coach with Henry in some kind of Manager/Director of Rugby/Elite Performance (or whatever title is flavour of the month with the RFU) would probably be the dream ticket from those who have expressed an interest. But the England job is probably a bit of a poison challice at...

Given how badly Brian Ashton was treated after the last RWC in order to make way for MJ I'm not surprised by this. If getting a very poor England side to a RWC final wasn't good enough, then crashing out in the QF wasn't going to be good enough. In fairness to MJ it was probably the wrong time...

Thomond my house was like that at the end too with a few less people than were at your namesake. The old addage of never write off a Munster team applies to this years HEC. They may not be the vintage of a few years ago. But they have young, talented, hungry players coming through into the team...

It's hard to see 2 SA teams being allowed into the HEC, in it's current format, on the simple basis that it means two unions would then have to give up a spot each to make way for them.

This whole thing stinks of the way football (soccer) teams do business. The same happened with the football premier league. Clubs wanted more money so they broke away from the governing body and made their own league. Since then only the super rich clubs have any chance of winning anything. The...

With people resigning, being fined, sacked etc. left and right within the RFU, one thing I can't get my head around is who is left to do the fining and the sacking. There must be a janitor with a huge amount of power at HQ round about now.

Lee it wasn't just Munster fans going mad when the drop goal went over. Was the same in my house in front of the TV even though we're avid Leinster fans. There were a few times in the 40 phases when someone almost knocked on and just recovered. I changed from there's no way they can do it to...

There still are. You can see who's in what pool of both the HEC and the Amlin on this website http://www.ercrugby.com/eng/ They'll also have results and updated pool tables.

Wow what a finish to Muster v Northampton. 40 odd phases then a drop goal with the last kick of the game to win it.

Great win over Clermont for Ulster. It's looking like a very good weekend for the Welsh regions also.

Leinster came away with a very good draw today. Montpellier were the better side for much of the game. Gorgodze was easily the stand out player, very impressive performance. But HEC pool stages are all about getting something away and winning at home. Proud of the way Connacht performed...

I like how things are now. I get to see more rugby because the seasons aren't in step with each other.

Wales could be missing some of their players as English and French clubs don't have to release players outside agree window. Looking at the players involved I think Welsh fans would have been more worried by their absence a year ago, but maybe not so much after the WC.

If stepping 12s weren't so out of fashion I think a JOC (James O'Connor) 10 and QC (Quade Cooper) 12 would be a very exciting combination to watch. However in the current environment where defence is valued above all else more likely to see a QC (Quade Cooper) 10 JOC (James O'Connor) 12 combination, with QC (Quade Cooper) banished to FB on defence. For this tour it will...

Should be a good tour. Ireland seem to like beating whoever is the current WCs over the last 10 years. However the fact that we've still never beat the ABs will be a huge mental block. BoD should be back by then and hopefully some of the young tallent that's been waiting for a chance in green...