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• The Rugby Blog’s Predictions for 2012 – Revisited

  
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  We look back on our predictions from the start of the year and eat some humble pie.
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• Yachvili was brazen in the Amlin Final, but cheating is an integral part of Rugby

  
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  There have been many examples of blatant cheating down the rugby years. Neil Backs slap at the ball in the Heineken Cup final may stand out as the most infamous, but it is not an isolated incident, and thats leaving aside the many punches thrown over the years. In last weeks Amlin Cup final Dimitri Yachvili ...
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• Great clubs don’t decline so Munster will be back

  
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  Today’s announcement that Denis Leamy is to retire due to a hip injury is yet another punch in the guts for Munster followers. They must never have envisaged their bitter rivals, Leinster, equaling and then surpassing their haul of two Heineken Cup victories within four years of their last victory in Cardiff in ...
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• The Fall and Rise of the Cardiff Blues

  
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  James Rhys Baylis looks back on Cardiffs troubled season and ahead to the future.
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• Rugby Union: Heineken Cup Team of the Tournament

  
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    Ball in Touch: Our rugby columnist, Jeff Ball, takes a look back at who has impressed in this season’s Heineken Cup and picks his best XV of the year Can you feel it? It’s coming, that inevitable period of boredom that is the off-season. While our favourite players sun themselves or are beasted by ...
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• HEINEKEN CUP 2012 FINAL: LEINSTER vs ULSTER!

  
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• Euro Vision

  
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• We will return stronger next year, insists Ulster’s Rory Best

  
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  Ulster and Ireland hooker Rory Best insists his side will return stronger for the experience after being put to the sword by Leinster in the Heineken Cup final at Twickenham on Saturday. Best, who started all five games for Ireland in this year’s Six Nations, came into the final as part of the underdog Ulster side. ...
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• Best of the Weekend: Leinster triumphant as Biarritz see off Toulon

  
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  Ben Coles rounds up the action from the Heineken & Amlin Challenge Cup Finals, plus Super Rugby.
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• Joe Schmidt boldly leads Leinster to where no team have gone before

  
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  • Heineken Cup final win over Ulster is Blues third in four years • Schmidt already talking about next seasons tournament The euro may be wobbling but Leinsters European stock continues to soar. To win three Heineken Cups in four years is a massive achievement. To boldly go where no champion team have gone before ...
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• Heineken Cup final - Leinster are starting to get posessive with that cup!

  
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  Sometimes it’s hard to write these things, sometimes they write themselves.  3 out of 4 Heineken Cups in the last four years has to make you wonder  what their problem was in 2010, doesn’t it? It was as emphatic as you can get, with Leinster dismantling Ulster and  setting a host of records along the way. ...
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• Leinsters success finds base in relentless pursuit of excellence

  
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  • Irish province has become major force in Heineken Cup • Supporters travel to European matches in numbers Next seasons Heineken Cup final is in Dublin, fittingly so as Ireland is the country the trophy has called home for five of the last seven seasons. A competition that in its first few years was regarded as a ...
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• Leinster 42 Ulster 14: Lessons from one-sided Heineken Cup win

  
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  Sean O’Brien is Ireland’s best number six A giant in the back row, Sean O’Brien wreaked havoc all over the hallowed turf at Twickenham. His presence struck fear into the opposition, with his determination getting himself over the whitewash for Leinster’s first try before setting up Cian Healy for the second. ...
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• Leinster 42 Ulster 14: We want to create a dynasty – O’Driscoll

  
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  Brian O’Driscoll hailed Leinster’s “phenomenal” effort after the province won their third Heineken Cup crown with a 42-14 victory over Ulster at Twickenham on Saturday. Leinster’s resounding win saw Joe Schmidt’s side claim the top prize in European club rugby for the third time in four years. ...
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• Brian ODriscolls rare talent gets final reward in heroic display | Paul Rees

  
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  Ireland legend defies injury to inspire Leinster to comfortable victory over Ulster in the Heineken Cup final Brian ODriscoll was making what was probably his final appearance at Twickenham, one of the leading players not just of his generation but the history of the game, defying injury to help inspire a complete ...
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• Dominant Leinster rule roost again

  
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  Leinster 42-14 Ulster It ended as a rout, with Leinster romping to their third victory in four seasons and staking a claim as the finest side to have graced the Heineken Cup. The competition is only 17 years old but this is a rare team, from the defensive strength of Rob Kearney at full-back to the all-round ...
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• Heineken Cup final: Ulster will be very physical – Leinster’s Schmidt

  
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  Leinster head coach Joe Schmidt is expecting a “physical” Ulster challenge when the two-time champions meet the northerners in the 17th Heineken Cup final at Twickenham on Saturday. For the first time in the history of European rugby’s biggest club competition, it will be an all-Irish affair, and the holders go ...
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• Heineken Cup final: Ulster want to prove a point – Andrew Trimble

  
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  Andrew Trimble admits Ulster are desperate to prove they’re the best province in Ireland when the northerners lock horns with rivals Leinster in the Heineken Cup final on Saturday. Ulster were the first Irish side to claim the trophy in 1999 but are now lagging behind both Leinster and Munster who have each won the ...
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• Ulsters climb to Heineken Cup final led by South African contingent

  
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  Pedrie Wannenburg, Johann Muller, Ruan Pienaar and Stefan Terblanche have added the necessary steel to lift Ulster There is little to connect rainswept Ravenhill with the high, dry veldt or dusty Durban, but if Ulster overcome Leinster in the Heineken Cup, their South African contingent will probably have put them in ...
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• Heineken Cup final: Can Ulster outwit a team as complete as Leinster? | Robert Kitson

  
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  Leinsters dominance stands out as they seek a third title in four years in the all-Irish Twickenham final Some great sides have never managed to win the Heineken Cup. Clermont Auvergne, Perpignan, Biarritz, Toulon, Ospreys: all of them have invested plenty and still not booked into European rugbys ultimate penthouse. ...
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