Champions Cup

This is where you will find all of The Rugby Paper’s Champions Cup news, interviews, reports, opinion and other content.

Team
Rank
MP
W
D
L
PF
PA
P
1
4
4
0
0
184
34
20
2
4
4
0
0
114
96
19
2
4
3
0
1
139
68
16
3
4
3
1
0
97
64
16
3
4
3
0
1
120
94
15
4
4
3
0
1
111
85
15
5
4
3
0
1
119
89
15
5
4
2
1
1
89
48
12
6
4
2
0
2
113
108
12
7
4
2
0
2
78
157
10
7
4
2
0
2
102
139
10
8
4
2
0
2
62
140
9
8
4
1
1
2
79
82
8
9
4
1
0
3
82
117
5
9
4
1
0
3
115
125
8
10
4
1
0
3
60
121
5
10
4
0
0
4
56
124
2
11
4
0
0
4
53
99
2
11
4
0
1
3
48
148
2
12
4
0
0
4
56
132
0
12
4
0
0
4
33
123
0

Toulouse provide a lesson in brilliance

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Leinster……………………….. 22pts Tries: van der Flier 93 Conversions: Frawley 94 Penalties: Byrne 18, 43, 46, 65; Frawley 77 Toulouse ……………………… 31pts Tries: […]

Ex-Wasps buzzing for European glory

By BEN JAYCOCK Thibaud Flament has risen from Loughborough University’s fifth team to become a French international with the intention of next weekend becoming a […]

Power of the four musketeers

A common theme of last weekend’s Champions Cup semi-finals was the influence of the four scrum-halves, the catalysts of teams that look to get the […]

Toulouse overcome Quins to join Leinster in eighth final

By NICK POWELL Toulouse………………………………………….38 Tries: Lebel 4, Mauvaka 19, Flament 27, Dupont 33, 37; Mallía 68 Conversions: Kinghorn 21, 35, 38; Ramos 70 Harlequins………………………………………..26 Tries: […]

Leinster made to fight all the way

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER Leinster…………………………20pts Tries: Lowe 10, 15, 43 Conversion: Byrne 11 Penalty: Byrne 29 Northampton Saints…… 17pts Tries: Hendy 58, Seabrook 73 Conversions: Smith […]

Nominees listed for top award

Northampton pair Courtney Lawes and Fin Smith, and Harlequins fly-half Marcus Smith have been nominated for the Champions Cup player of the year award. Leinster […]

The pinball wizard who can fire Exeter

JEREMY GUSCOTT OUTSPOKEN AND UNMISSABLE… EVERY WEEK IMMANUEL Feyi-Waboso was a pretty unknown factor before the Six Nations, but the 21-year-old winger’s rise from Cardiff […]

Green seizes day for dazzling Quins

By PAUL REES Bordeaux-Begles ………..41pts Tries: Lucu 19, Buros 24, Depoortere 42, Bielle-Biarrey 59, Tambwe 64, 75 Conversions: Lucu 25, 43, 60, 65 Penalties: Lucu […]

Doris: Croke will be massive

Leinster’s victorious squad are looking forward to their ‘home” semi-final at the 82,000 capacity Croke Park, two miles across Dublin from the Aviva Stadium. Skipper […]

Another barmy idea from the men in suits

The Ministry of Silly Walks was a Monty Python sketch which lampooned bureaucratic inefficiency. Rugby Union requires something similar to shame the unaccountable administrators turning […]