How things stand in Pool 1 of the Investec Champions Cup with the final round of pool matches remaining. The top four in each six-team pool progress to the last 16 of Europe’s premier club competition, with the fifth-placed team dropping down to the EPCR Challenge Cup. In Pool 1, the Glasgow Warriors and Sale Sharks have […]
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A highly-rated Highlanders scrumhalf has been ruled out of the entire 2026 season after suffering a serious knee injury at training. The Super Rugby Pacific team confirmed on Monday that 20-year-old Dylan Pledger has ruptured his ACL and will face a lengthy rehabilitation period following surgery, sidelining him for up to 12 months. This means
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Ulster have been awarded a 28-0 bonus-point win after their EPCR Challenge Cup pool match against the Cheetahs in Amsterdam was cancelled. The round three fixture was initially postponed after referee Kevin Bralley ruled the pitch at Dukes Rugby Club in ’s-Hertogenbosch unplayable. However, after reviewing the circumstances, EPCR reiterated that competition regulations place responsibility
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Harlequins head coach Jason Gilmore believes his side’s emphatic demolition of the Stormers could prove to be a turning point after a bruising run of results. Quins ran in nine tries in a ruthless 61-10 victory at the Twickenham Stoop on Sunday, producing a performance that stood in stark contrast to the heavy defeats that
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All three South African teams are in with a chance of reaching the Investec Champions Cup round of 16 despite disappointing defeats over the weekend. Investec Champions Cup No one quite saw this coming. The STORMERS sent a much-changed team to London to take on struggling Harlequins, but it is still hard to come to
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The Northampton Saints lost a feisty rematch of last season’s Investec Champions Cup final 50-28 in Bordeaux, while Toulouse suffered a second consecutive defeat. Both defending champions Bordeaux Begles and Northampton were already sure of qualifying before their Pool 4 meeting. Salesi Rayasi gave the hosts an early lead with an unconverted try. Henry Pollock
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John Dobson didn’t sugarcoat the Stormers’ humbling 61-10 defeat to Harlequins in the Investec Champions Cup on Sunday. MORNÉ ESBEN reports. The director of rugby branded the performance at The Stoop as “desperately disappointing” in both execution and outcome. “While we did leave a few players in Cape Town, we still thought we had a
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Harlequins silenced their critics with a ruthless and clinical drubbing of the Stormers in London on Sunday. The hosts ran in nine tries – including a hat-trick from winger Nick David – to demolish the Stormers 61-10 in round three of the Investec Champions Cup and end the Cape side’s perfect start to the season. Quins
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Sunday’s EPCR Challenge Cup match between the Cheetahs and Ulster was called off shortly before kick-off. The fixture had already been moved from the Cheetahs’ home base of the NRCA Stadium in Amsterdam to behind closed doors at Dukes Rugby in ‘s-Hertogenbosch due to the brutally cold conditions sweeping across northern Europe. In a statement
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