The News Review:
- Payne wants Heineken Cup improvement
- Win a VIP trip to Heineken Cup Final
- Skrela ruled out for Toulouse Heineken Cup matches
- Ulster enjoy tonic at Ravenhill ahead of Cup clash
- Carter anticipates bon voyage
- Wasps stung by Lions tales
- Leamy set to see specialist
Payne wants Heineken Cup improvement
Limerick Leader Ireland
“It wasn’t a great performance against Llanelli” Shaun Payne said. “But we managed to sneak away from Wales with a win. “Traditionally in the pool stages of the Heineken Cup we played the strongest team in the pool first and last” Shaun Payne said. “It always seemed to pan out like that. To play a strong team like Clermont in the back-to-back games is a new situation for us. “If we could go over there and scratch out a result it would be massive for us. There will be pressure on them.
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Skrela ruled out for Toulouse Heineken Cup matches
Lions-Tour.com New Zealand
The French international said that he would need two weeks of complete rest followed by one week of light training to get back to full fitness. He will miss his side’s European (Heineken) Cup games later this month although Toulouse have just welcomed back to the fold Frederik Michalak after he spent a season in South Africa. Sapa-AFP – Rugbyweek. com Bookmark this:.
Ulster enjoy tonic at Ravenhill ahead of Cup clash
Belfast Telegraph United Kingdom
The bonus point win moves Ulster up to fifth a point behind Leinster who provide the next opposition at Ravenhill in the league on December 27. Ulster will be hoping they carry the momentum into the Heineken Cup which resumes against The Scarlets at Ravenhill on Friday. One player putting his hand up for a starting slot is Scottish international winger Simon Danielli. He made a successful comeback against Connacht by scoring two tries after being sprung from the bench and wants to make up for lost time after a knee injury in pre-season left him sidelined for three months. “I’m delighted to be back. When you get injured you have moments when you think am I going to get fit again or am I going to get selected again?Fortunately I got on the pitch and it’s nice to score tries” said Danielli.
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Carter anticipates bon voyage
Stuff.co.nz New Zealand
"I was kicking the ball well all week but in the warm-up I lost a bit of rhythm so that was tough. It was just one of those nights" he said. He gets alongside his new French teammates at Leicester on Friday where Perpignan play the first leg of their Heineken Cup doubleheader against the English powerhouse.
Wasps stung by Lions tales
Scotsman United Kingdom
When Ian McGeechan and Shaun Edwards were named as coaches for next year’s Lions tour to South Africa their club side Wasps had recently won the Guinness Premiership title. The most successful side of the modern era bADVERTISEMENToast five league championships and two Heineken Cup wins to their name. They have turned starting slowly into an art form scraping into a play-off place every year by the skin of their teeth before as often as not going on to win the championship. It will be an escape act worthy of Houdini himself if Wasps get into the top four this time because the win over the Falcons on Friday night gave Wasps only their second league win of the season so far. The English champions now have two crucial European matches against Edinburgh with the first of the back-to-back games taking place at Murrayfield this Friday evening. Edinburgh are bolstered by the return to action of the pocket dynamo Ross Rennie and the city side boasts a handy record against Wasps in the capital.
Leamy set to see specialist
RTE.ie Ireland
The back-row forward suffered the knee injury late in the second half of the game at Parc Y Stradey and is definitely ruled out of Munster’s Heineken Cup back-to-back games with ASMClermont Auvergne. South African Justin Melck who had originally been signed on a short term contract as back row cover was due to return home at the weekend but now remains on until the end of December.