If you’re short of ideas on what to do on this, your last
weekend in 2012, the Robo Direct Pro 12 has all the excitement you need.
With a mixture of teams needing to maintain their high
positions and others, to put some much needed points on the board, it will be
interesting to see how some of the bigger squads fair against the ones
struggling to get their campaign off to a good finish in the calendar year.
Two Irish derbies
take place on Saturday, leaders Ulster travel to Thomand Park to take on Munster
who sit in third place on the league table in the hope to extend their unbeaten
run. Leinster will host Connacht in a match that neither team can afford to
loose.
Leinster, having had a recent form that is very
uncharacteristic of European Champions, need to put some much needed points on
the table, whilst Connacht are struggling in the bottom three.
Another derby takes place again on Saturday with Zebre
looking to both get their own back on rivals Treviso, and to get their first
win of the season. A win is essential for both sides as Treviso have the
opportunity to climb the competition table after Cardiff blues missed out on 3
points at home to Newport. They have won their last two matches in the league
but have not had three in a row since October 2011.
Newport would also like to try and claw their way up the
table, and regain some dignity in welsh circles after a narrow defeat to
Cardiff blues on Boxing day, when they host Ospreys at Rodney Parade.
The table currently sits as follows.
|
1
|
 (1) |
Ulster
Rugby
|
11
|
11
|
0
|
0
|
47
|
|
2
|
 (2) |
Scarlets
|
12
|
8
|
0
|
4
|
38
|
|
3
|
 (3) |
Munster
Rugby
|
11
|
7
|
0
|
4
|
33
|
|
4
|
 (4) |
Glasgow
Warriors
|
11
|
7
|
0
|
4
|
32
|
|
5
|
 (6) |
Ospreys
|
11
|
7
|
0
|
4
|
31
|
|
6
|
 (5) |
Leinster
Rugby
|
11
|
7
|
0
|
4
|
31
|
|
7
|
 (9) |
Cardiff
Blues
|
12
|
5
|
0
|
7
|
24
|
|
8
|
 (7) |
Benetton
Treviso
|
11
|
5
|
0
|
6
|
23
|
|
9
|
 (8) |
Edinburgh
Rugby
|
11
|
4
|
0
|
7
|
21
|
|
10
|
 (10) |
Connacht
Rugby
|
11
|
3
|
0
|
8
|
16
|
|
11
|
 (11) |
Newport
Gwent Dragons
|
11
|
3
|
0
|
8
|
14
|
|
12
|
 (12) |
Zebre
|
11
|
0
|
0
|
11
|
5
|
No comments:
Post a Comment