Week 32 Round Up!

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Apr 182011
 

Ulster’s challenge on two fronts has now hit the buffers. Will the season be derailed or will they be able to push on through to the finish line?

Things could have been worse over the weekend with the Dragons doing us and themselves a favour by beating Ospreys in a highly entertaining match on Friday night. Unfortunately our western neighbours, Connacht were unable to turn over the Blues, with the Cardiff side pulling clear in the second half at the Showgrounds.

Fri 15 Apr 19:05 Dragons 32 – 28 Ospreys Rodney Parade 5,496
Fri 15 Apr 19:45 Connacht 12 – 26 Blues Sportsground 1,856
Fri 15 Apr 19:50 Edinburgh 32 – 15 Aironi Murrayfield 1,565
Sat 16 Apr 15:00 Treviso 19 – 16 Warriors Stadio di Monigo 4,000
Sat 16 Apr 18:15 Scarlets 6 – 13 Munster Parc y Scarlets 9,108
Sat 16 Apr 20:00 Leinster 34 – 26 Ulster Royal Dublin Society 17,670

 

The results see Leinster leapfrog Ulster and the Ospreys into second place and Ulster must be wary of the late challenge from Cardiff who are three points behind with a game in hand.

Pos Team P W D L PF PA Diff TF TA TB LB Pts
1 Munster 20 17 0 3 452 301 151 40 20 5 2 75
2 Leinster 20 13 1 6 437 325 112 44 24 4 3 61
3 Ulster 20 13 1 6 433 389 44 38 33 3 2 59
4 Ospreys 20 11 1 8 521 386 135 54 27 6 6 58
5 Blues 19 12 1 6 412 317 95 31 26 3 3 56
6 Scarlets 20 10 1 9 428 401 27 40 38 3 7 52
Full table here.

 

Ulster must at least match the Ospreys if they are to be guaranteed a top four finish and a bonus point win against Connacht and a win for Munster in Swansea would guarantee our participation in the knock out stages. A defeat for the Ospreys would put Cardiff in the driving seat to join the three Irish sides and it may hasten the disintegration of Osprelia and the return of a certain Mr Bowe!

Thu 21 Apr 19:05 Blues v Treviso Cardiff City Stadium BBC Wales
Fri 22 Apr 19:05 Ulster v Connacht Ravenhill BBC NI/TG4
Fri 22 Apr 19:30 Edinburgh v Dragons Murrayfield
Fri 22 Apr 20:05 Warriors v Scarlets Firhill Stadium BBCALBA/BBCW
Sat 23 Apr 14:30 Aironi v Leinster Stadio Zaffanella
Sat 23 Apr 18:30 Ospreys v Munster Liberty Stadium S4C/RTE
Click here to make your predictions.

 

No full houses this week but there were a few who did score five points. Rocky moves into joint 1st place with his late run but the Predictions League could go all the way till the final weekend with only five points separating the top nine. What price a draw between Aironi and Leinster?

User Name Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Wk30 Wk31 Wk32 Total
junty 18 33 28 28 32 18 20 3 3 2 185
rocky 18 35 24 23 29 22 17 4 9 4 185
ding dong 17 36 27 23 31 22 19 4 2 3 184
Kinger 17 36 23 24 30 22 21 5 3 3 184
corbo texels 14 35 26 30 28 19 21 5 2 3 183
general prom 14 35 27 26 31 21 21 4 2 2 183
stormin 16 36 23 23 34 19 19 4 3 4 181
brianc 12 41 21 21 32 22 21 4 2 4 180
Neill 16 36 24 23 30 23 19 4 2 3 180
View the full table here.

 

With Cardiff playing their catch up game this week make sure you get your predictions in by 6:00pm on Thursday if you want them all to count.

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  One Response to “Week 32 Round Up!”

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  1. Andrew
    April 18, 2011 at 6:57 pm
     

    Ospreys need to get two more match points than us across the next two rounds to overtake us. They are only a point behind, but Ulster have won more games- that’s the ML equivalent of ‘goal difference’ if you like.

    If we finish level on points with the Ospreys we finish ahead of them. So if the Ospreys get 9 points from the next two games, 8 points will do it for us. If they get a maximum of 10 points we’ll need 9 points to finish ahead of them.

    9 points will therefore guarantee Ulster a Top 4 finish, so let’s hope for a 5 pointer in our final home game- then we know any sort of win in Newport will be enough to finish the job!

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