The News Review:
- Back-row battle vital as Munster’s home fires burn for revenge.
- Former players escape Tykes’ demise.
- Jenkins gave Cardiff Blues a great start with a sixth-minute try
- Ulster must win individually to win as a team.
Back-row battle vital as Munster’s home fires burn for revenge.
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(From Irish Independent) IT doesn’t take an expert to figure out that tonight’s Magners League clash between Munster and Ulster at a sold-out Musgrave Park (7. 30) is not your typical early season game. This will be a fiercely contested affair played with the same intensity as a Heineken Cup match. That’s the way it works when the provinces clash in the Magners League. As the Ulster and Ireland flanker Neil Best emphasised: “It’s going to be some game. It’s a Magners League game a trial game and since Munster won the Heineken Cup a chance to play the top team in Europe.
Former players escape Tykes’ demise.
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f last season’s squad 25 players have left and 17 of them are at clubs in the Guinness Premiership the Magners League the French Championnat and South Africa’s Currie Cup. Most are playing regularly. As many as 16 could be involved in either the Heineken Cup or Super 14. Leeds clearly did not have a team of old donkeys; nor did they have a cretinous coach – their former director of rugby Phil Davies has taken Llanelli to the top of the Magners League. The Tykes had the talent to have fared much better as they occasionally demonstrated – the Heineken Cup performances in Perpignan and at home to Cardiff spring to mind. England A centre Chris Bell now with champions Sale Sharks likens Leeds’s relegation team to the West Ham side that went down in 2003 despite the presence of Michael Carrick Joe Cole David James Jermaine Defoe.
Jenkins gave Cardiff Blues a great start with a sixth-minute try
BBC News – Sep 30, 2006
Blues coach Dai Young:”There are very few games whereby you have an opportunity to change people’s perception of you. “We have had a lot of lean years but I wanted the players to make a statement today that we are on our way back. “To be honest in the last couple of seasons in the Heineken Cup we haven’t been good enough but we are showing now that we are moving forward. Wasps rugby director Ian McGeechan:”We were in the game at half-time but there was no real flow to us in the second half and we struggled to get the ball away in contact. “We are on the back foot now in terms of the pool but that happens when there are only three group games and you lose the first one. n Josh Lewsey he said: “It was not a pull or a tear. His hamstring was just tightening up and it was purely precautionary.
Ulster must win individually to win as a team.
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Ulster must win individually to win as a team. (30-SEP-06) Europe Intelligence Wire.