Feast Of Rugby For April Fool’s Day
ERC (European Rugby Cup Ltd) have confirmed the dates, kick-off times and TV details for the 2005/06 Heineken Cup quarter-finals, which will be played out over the first weekend in April.
…Ronan O’Gara has a penalty kick charged down by Frederic Cermeno during Munster’s Heineken Cup pool defeat by Perpignan in January 2003. Munster lost that tie 23-8 at the Stade Aime Giral – the sides will meet again on April 1 next at Lansdowne Road in this season’s Heineken Cup quarter-finals…
ERC (European Rugby Cup Ltd) have confirmed the dates, kick-off times and TV details for the 2005/06 Heineken Cup quarter-finals, which will be played out over the first weekend in April.
Munster will clash with Perpignan on Saturday, April 1, while Toulouse and Leinster will also go head-to-head on the same afternoon. The all-English quarter-final between Leicester and Bath will also take place on April Fool’s Day.
Munster have nominated Lansdowne Road (capacity: 49,500) as their choice of home venue, while Leinster will travel to Toulouse’s Le Stadium. The latter venue has a capacity of 37,000.
2005/06 HEINEKEN CUP: QUARTER-FINALS:
– SATURDAY, APRIL 1 –
LEICESTER TIGERS v BATH RUGBY, venue tbc, 12.30pm (live Sky Sports/Sport+)
TOULOUSE v LEINSTER, Le Stadium, 3.00pm (Irish time), (live FR2/RTE/Sky Sports)
MUNSTER v PERPIGNAN, Lansdowne Road, 5.30pm (live RTE/Sky Sports/Sport+)
– SUNDAY, APRIL 2 –
BIARRITZ OLYMPIQUE v SALE SHARKS, venue tbc, 5.00pm (Irish time) (Sport+/Sky Sports)