Amlin Cup 2012/2013 draw

for those who actually do care , it happened this morning and here's the outcome


pool 1: Gloucester Rugby, London Irish, Bordeaux-Bègles, Mont-de-Marsan
pool 2: Perpignan, Worcester Warriors, Femi-CZ VEA Rovigo, Bizkaia Gernika RT (spain)
pool 3: London Wasps, Newport Gwent Dragons, Bayonne, Rugby Mogliano
pool 4: Bath Rugby, Cammi Rugby Calvisano, Agen, Bucharest Wolves
pool 5: Stade Français Paris, *Newcastle Falcons, I Cavalieri Prato, Grenoble

* falcons participation is still to be confirmed obviously (subject they still play in the AP)

This competition will be much more watchable when the invetible overhaul of the HEC takes place. At the minute it's a bit easy to see that Perpignan, Bath and Stade will win three of the five groups whilst Gloucester vs LI and Newport vs Wasps will decide the others.

whocares wrote:for those who actually do care , it happened this morning and here's the outcome


pool 1: Gloucester Rugby, London Irish, Bordeaux-Bègles, Mont-de-Marsan
pool 2: Perpignan, Worcester Warriors, Femi-CZ VEA Rovigo, Bizkaia Gernika RT (spain)
pool 3: London Wasps, Newport Gwent Dragons, Bayonne, Rugby Mogliano
pool 4: Bath Rugby, Cammi Rugby Calvisano, Agen, Bucharest Wolves
pool 5: Stade Français Paris, *Newcastle Falcons, I Cavalieri Prato, Grenoble

* falcons participation is still to be confirmed obviously (subject they still play in the AP)

So if London Welsh win their appeal then what happens? After all Falcons are a second seed team, so LW couldn't be put in their place as that would be wrong.


Anyway looking at those groups the Dragons are going to have a fair old fight to get out of hte group, seems like a pretty strong group seeing as it is the Amlin.

Bath's best chance of a trophy this coming season I think...

How are the Falcons in the Amlin - I thought the team that finished 7th in the AV got an Amlin spot?

Looks to be a decent group for the Dragons, hopefully (if they pull their socks up) they could qualify from that group

How are the Falcons in the Amlin - I thought the team that finished 7th in the AV got an Amlin spot?

Looks to be a decent group for the Dragons, hopefully (if they pull their socks up) they could qualify from that group

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I think everybody in tha AV gets a dib at the Amlin. If the LW appeal is succesful I think they will replace us.

They will of course then go on to win the competotion as they will appeal against all of the existing rules that they don't like.

Bayonne might have a go next year, depending on how they feature in the T14 after the first few games. hopefully it will bring some competition to pool 3. for most of the other pools, I can as well put my sportguru predictions already...

Ahh cheers Trail Ape

London Irish in the same group as Bordeaux! Happy times

pool 3: London Wasps, Newport Gwent Dragons, Bayonne, Rugby Mogliano

Looks a fun group!
London Wasps, sounds like an exciting fixture for the Dragons fans. As well another semi pro Italian club for them to run up a big score against. There's 2 games I will be going to see provided they don't clash with any home Ospreys games!

Mad for Chelsea wrote:London Irish in the same group as Bordeaux! Happy times

My thoughts exactly! I shall do my best to follow Glaws to both Bordeaux and Mont-de-Marsan - both rather nice wine regions

Who said the Amlin was rubbish? The rugby maybe, but short of a visit to Treviso I am very happy with those away days

ScarletSpiderman wrote:

whocares wrote:for those who actually do care , it happened this morning and here's the outcome


pool 1: Gloucester Rugby, London Irish, Bordeaux-Bègles, Mont-de-Marsan
pool 2: Perpignan, Worcester Warriors, Femi-CZ VEA Rovigo, Bizkaia Gernika RT (spain)
pool 3: London Wasps, Newport Gwent Dragons, Bayonne, Rugby Mogliano
pool 4: Bath Rugby, Cammi Rugby Calvisano, Agen, Bucharest Wolves
pool 5: Stade Français Paris, *Newcastle Falcons, I Cavalieri Prato, Grenoble

* falcons participation is still to be confirmed obviously (subject they still play in the AP)

So if London Welsh win their appeal then what happens? After all Falcons are a second seed team, so LW couldn't be put in their place as that would be wrong.

Anyway looking at those groups the Dragons are going to have a fair old fight to get out of hte group, seems like a pretty strong group seeing as it is the Amlin.

Out of interest what happens now???

I'd imagine London Welsh would just take Newcastle's fixtures, it would be easier than redrawing. Nothing on the ERC site yet, but something official should come out soon with Newcastle waiving their right to appeal.