Sharks win Challenge Cup final, reducing URC Champions Cup places to seven
Connacht's hopes of qualifying for the Champions Cup next season suffered a setback as Sharks won the Challenge Cup final, beating Gloucester by 36-22.
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Connacht's hopes of qualifying for the Champions Cup next season suffered a setback as Sharks won the Challenge Cup final, beating Gloucester by 36-22.
The Sharks booked their place in the Challenge Cup final after striking with a late try to topple Clermont 32-21 at The Stoop.
The first piece of silverware in the Southern Counties East League was decided on Good Friday.
Dalbeattie Star’s campaign came to an end with a heartbreaking cup final defeat.
RC Toulon crushed Glasgow Warriors’ dreams of becoming the first Scottish side to win a continental trophy, after cruising to a 19-43 in the European Challenge Cup final at the Aviva Stadium. The French side were dominant from the start and opened the scoring with only five minutes gone, as Baptiste Serin brilliantly held off Ollie Smith to score before converting his own try.
Glasgow’s dream of becoming the first Scottish team to secure a major European rugby title was comprehensively shattered in Dublin on Friday by a Toulon side who claimed their own little slice of history. The French club had lost all four of their previous Challenge Cup finals but ran in six tries in a comfortable win over below-par opponents who only spluttered into life late on.
Glasgow Warriors «have got the beating» of Toulon in their first European Challenge Cup final, according to assistant coach Nigel Carolan. The Scottish outfit will take on four-time European Challenge Cup runners-up at Ireland’s Aviva Stadium on Friday as both sides look to win the trophy for the first time. Ad Although Warriors are tasting European final action for the first time, Carolan is not content with just reaching the final but wants to go “one step further”.
Hollands & Blair striker Ben Brown struck a late winner against Fisher in the final of the SCEFL Challenge Cup.