Sunday, April 12, 2015

Front Five - 12.04.15

Start your day with five eye-catching egg-chasing quotes & links from around the ruggersphere.
 
 
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“Leinster and the boys at the top of the Celtic League are well endowed...
in that if one international drops out, they can bring another international player in."
 

Dragons are five years behind Leinster! The shock view of coach Lyn Jones as he plots the scalp of Pro 12's Man Utd

 
Simon Thomas - WalesOnline
 
 

 
...seven combined penalties and two conversions from Welsh full-back Leigh Halfpenny, French great Frederic Michalak and Englishman Delon Armitrage carried the European champions to an 11 point win.
 

Toulon rise to the top of Top 14 again

 
Rugby Week
 

 
The crowd showed their displeasure at the Welsh referee who surely made the odd duff decision, but the poor man can’t be held responsible for the lopsided score board.
 
 
Iain Morrison - The Scotsman
 

 
Young Munster and Lansdowne will meet again in two weeks' time in the semi-finals...while the other play-off tie on Saturday 25 April is an all-Dublin affair between Terenure College and Clontarf at Lakelands
 
 
RTÉ Sport
 

 
It is a tough finish to the season but if Connacht can deliver performances like the one that dispatched Munster on New Year’s Day, they should be dining at Europe’s top table next season.
 

With three games to go, here’s what Connacht have to do to qualify for the Champions Cup

 
Will Slattery - The42.ie
 

 
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