My reading from this is that there is no coin toss at all and broadcasters will decide the venue.

But European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) has confirmed it is ironing out details with broadcasters before announcing the venue and day of the eagerly-awaited match.

www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Gloucester-s...04-detail/story.html

salmson wrote:

pinky wrote: Rumours over on ShedWeb are that the coin has already been tossed in secret but the results haven't been made public yet.
You couldn't make it up. Unless they did, in which case you could.

Gloucester papers were saying last week that the toss would happen at Twickenham during the cup final, but I can't find the outcome anywhere. So it looks like your rumour is bang on the money.

Hilarious if so. Surely for it to have any credibility it has to be done in public?

pinky wrote: Rumours over on ShedWeb are that the coin has already been tossed in secret but the results haven't been made public yet.
You couldn't make it up. Unless they did, in which case you could.

Gloucester papers were saying last week that the toss would happen at Twickenham during the cup final, but I can't find the outcome anywhere. So it looks like your rumour is bang on the money.

Rumours over on ShedWeb are that the coin has already been tossed in secret but the results haven't been made public yet.
You couldn't make it up. Unless they did, in which case you could.

Pro 12 has 7 automatic + 1 playoff.

Top 6 = Automatic

Top Italian = Automatic


7th in the league = playoff. But this probably means 8th seed for the Champions Trophy ( Hence ranked lower then top italian ). Well that is my reading into it

GTTC wrote: Match 1
23 May 2015
TBC (Gloucester/8th Pro12) v TBC (Gloucester/8th Pro12)

Match 2
30 May 2015
Winner of Match 1 v 7th Place Top 14

Can someone clarify something for me.
As I understand it, automatic qualification for Championship is Top 6 from Prem, Top 6 from France and 7 teams (not Top 7) from Pro 12 as the 7 teams from the Pro 12 has to include an Italian side, it is actually the Top 6 league finishers plus the top Itallian side from the Pro
12.
My reading of that is that it is the 7th place finisher in the League that gets the play off spot, not 8th.

Match 1
23 May 2015
TBC (Gloucester/8th Pro12) v TBC (Gloucester/8th Pro12)

Match 2
30 May 2015
Winner of Match 1 v 7th Place Top 14

swift4prez wrote: Does anyone have a date for the semi final vs Gloucester and the final?

I know it's an outside chance it will be connacht but still need to look ahead

What are you talking about???

Does anyone have a date for the semi final vs Gloucester and the final?

I know it's an outside chance it will be connacht but still need to look ahead

Congrats to Gloucester. I think there will be more than a few regrets in the Connacht squad about how the Challenge Cup went but we didn't do enough in the two key games and got what we deserved. Would have been nice from a Pro 12 viewpoint for Edinburgh to win. Will be interesting to see how they react at Dragons next Friday.

I was sure Edinburgh were going to push on after the red card and the try but alas seemed incapable of scoring against more than 13 men. It only occurred to me during the game but we really could have done with an Edinburgh win. Glaws have nothing much to play for in the Premiership so they can basically use their last two games as warm-ups for the play-offs so they should be well rested and motivated for the clash with the Pro12 team.
Congrats to Gloucester though. Big session in Teagues tomorrow.

Anyone watching this?

European Challenge Cup Semi-Final Round Up
On Friday night Edinburgh will make history as they become the first Scottish side to appear in a European final. Standing in their way of European Challenge Cup silverware are Gloucester.

Edinburgh advanced to the final courtesy of a 45-16 win over Dragons in the semi-final at Murrayfield. Leading 21-9 at half time, Edinburgh took advantage of the Dragons losing 3 men to the sin bin to run in 5 tries. Sam Hidalgo-Clyne was among the try scorers and added 4 conversions and 4 penalties to end the game with 25 points to his name.

Gloucester progressed to the final overcoming local Premiership rivals the Exeter Chiefs by 30-19 at Kingsholm. A first half try from centre Billy Meakes helped the home side go in 13-6 up at the interval and despite Exeter narrowing the gap to a point heading into the closing 15 minutes, late tries from Tom Savage and Jonny May saw Gloucester through to the final as the only unbeaten team in the competition.

Results
Edinburgh 45-16 Dragons
Gloucester 30-19 Exeter Chiefs

Friday 1st May European Challenge Cup Final
Gloucester v Edinburgh
Twickenham Stoop. Kick off: 19:45

Gloucester go into the final as favourites as despite some indifferent league form they have won 8 out of 8 in the Challenge Cup. However, Edinburgh have performed strongly in the 2nd half of the season and wins at Scarlets and London Irish in recent times shows what they are capable of. Gloucester's need to win the trophy may be greater as the play off spot winning the competition would earn them looks their most likely avenue to qualify for next season's Champions Cup. Edinburgh are still pushing for Champions Cup qualification via the league and winning the competition has no benefit in terms of qualification for them but they are unlikely to give up this opportunity for silverware easily.

pinky wrote:

salmson wrote: You'd swear the EPRC was one bloke in Geneva making it up as he goes along...

:huh: :dry:

And that bloke is:

Craig Doyle 1-2
Brian O'Driscoll 6-4
Bruce Craig 4-1
Leighton Hodges 150-1
Gerry Thornley 5000-1

At those odds I'll have a monkey Bruce Craig

salmson wrote: You'd swear the EPRC was one bloke in Geneva making it up as he goes along...

:huh: :dry:

And that bloke is:

Craig Doyle 1-2
Brian O'Driscoll 6-4
Bruce Craig 4-1
Leighton Hodges 150-1
Gerry Thornley 5000-1

Connnnnacht wrote: Not a mention anywhere of what would happen if the team that won the Champions Cup hasn't qualified through their league placings

You'd swear the EPRC was one bloke in Geneva making it up as he goes along...

:huh: :dry: