Nobody. I think Connacht will be hammered if they've to face a team like Toulouse away though.Who will humiliate Connaught the most?
and johnny O'Concrete but despite there lack of good players im really interested in how they doIf they had this years team they'd actually do quite well. They're better than the Italian teams and probably the Dragons. Unfortunately they're losing Cronin, Hagan, Keatley and Carr. Thats their main man in the scrum. Most important ballcarrier. Top scorer and top try scorer. With their lack of strength in depth that's hard. At least they still have Muldoon.
Who will humiliate Connaught the most?
Here is the pots which the teams will be drawn from (ERC ranking in brackets)
- Each pool will have 1 team from each pot
- No pool can have more than 1 side from the same nation
- Apart from the nation with 7 qualified teams, which in this case is England, so there will be 1 pool with 2 English teams
The hardest possible pool:
Leinster / Leicester / Saracens / Racing-Métro
whichever team gets Racing-Métro as the team from Pot 4 will be p*ssed off
The easiest possible pool:
Cardiff Blues / London Irish / Glasgow / Aironi
Must be a French team in each pool.
From a Leinster perspective I'd like:
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Would be nice. It'll probably be more like
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i expect munster to do decently next year cos i feel they've worked some young players up to first team level but im not expecting more than a quarter final depending on the pool they get
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Here is the pots which the teams will be drawn from (ERC ranking in brackets)
- Each pool will have 1 team from each pot
- No pool can have more than 1 side from the same nation
- Apart from the nation with 7 qualified teams, which in this case is England, so there will be 1 pool with 2 English teams
The hardest possible pool:
Leinster / Leicester / Saracens / Racing-Métro
whichever team gets Racing-Métro as the team from Pot 4 will be p*ssed off
The easiest possible pool:
Cardiff Blues / London Irish / Glasgow / Aironi
Urm ... slightly wrong
TIERS FOR HEINEKEN CUP 2011 / 2012 POOL DRAW
Leinster, the Heineken Cup champions, will be the first club allocated a Pool for the 2011 / 2012 tournament when the draw for the composition of the six Pools of four clubs each for the 17th tournament takes place at Twickenham Stadium on Tuesday, 7 June.
Leinster are also top of the ERC European Rankings, which determine the tiers of the clubs who have qualified for European club rugby's premier competition, and are joined in Tier 1 by three other Heineken Cup winners in Toulouse, Munster and Leicester Tigers.
Cardiff Blues and Biarritz Olympique, both former Heineken Cup finalists, complete the top group of six.
Once the Tier 1 clubs have each been allocated a different Pool no club from the same Tier will be drawn in the same Pool and no Pool will have more than one club from the same country with the exception of England, as there are seven English teams.
The draw will launch the countdown to a tournament which will climax at Twickenham Stadium on the weekend of 19 / 20 May, 2012, with the 17th Heineken Cup final.
CLUBS AND TIERS
TIER 1 – Leinster, Toulouse, Munster, Cardiff Blues, Biarritz Olympique, Leicester Tigers
TIER 2 – Northampton Saints, ASM Clermont Auvergne, Ospreys, Bath Rugby, Harlequins, London Irish
TIER 3 – Ulster Rugby, Saracens, Gloucester Rugby, Glasgow Warriors, Scarlets, Edinburgh
TIER 4 – Connacht Rugby, Benetton Treviso, Castres Olympique, Montpellier, Racing Metro 92, Aironi RugbyiWin
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I'm quite confused as to why the majority of people here seem to be viewing Montpelier as the weakest french team.
They're finalists this season and have looked really dangerous. Certainly more-so than Castres and in patches more than Racing and Clermont as well.
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I want Montpellier in Leinster's group, not because I underrate them but because it would be a nice away trip to a venue I haven't been in before.
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It is obvious 2 Irish provinces will get the hardest Groups - Wish it was possible that we could draw Connacht It is obvious 2 Irish provinces will get the hardest Groups - Wish it was possible that we could draw Connacht
The Irish provinces ALWAYS get the hardest groups. [/606]
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