Next season Champions Cup - 2023/2024

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Home vs Stormers 10th Dec
Away vs Stade Francais 17th Dec

Away vs La Rochelle 14th Jan
Home vs Leinster 20th Jan

What's happened here?

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Home vs Stormers 10th Dec
Away vs Stade Francais 17th Dec

Away vs La Rochelle 14th Jan
Home vs Leinster 20th Jan

Oof. I'd love to think we could win 3 of those but it could as easily be 4 loses....

How do the Saffers travel?

[Scott1]

CC here we come,if we are lucky!

[wigworth]

From the looks of it might be a year to focus on the league.

[RunTigerRun]

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Home vs Stormers 10th Dec
Away vs Stade Francais 17th Dec

Away vs La Rochelle 14th Jan
Home vs Leinster 20th Jan

Best possible set of home and away IMO.

Travelling to La Rochelle whilst very tough will be an unreal atmosphere. Not having to travel to SA is a huge plus and Leinster at WR gives us the shot to make amends for the last 2 fixtures. Then a nice trip to Paris for Stade is a strong chance for some points.

Very excited!

[Darc Tiger]

All things considered, not the worst, but we have to win those first two to have a reasonable shot.

[Rugbygramps]

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Home vs Stormers 10th Dec
Away vs Stade Francais 17th Dec

Away vs La Rochelle 14th Jan
Home vs Leinster 20th Jan

Best possible set of home and away IMO.

Travelling to La Rochelle whilst very tough will be an unreal atmosphere. Not having to travel to SA is a huge plus and Leinster at WR gives us the shot to make amends for the last 2 fixtures. Then a nice trip to Paris for Stade is a strong chance for some points.

Very excited!

Totally agree in terms of how the fixtures have come out. Stormers and Stade definitely winnable and Leinster with a new coach post World Cup who knows.
If we can get 12 points from those games who knows

[Rugbygramps]

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Home vs Stormers 10th Dec
Away vs Stade Francais 17th Dec

Away vs La Rochelle 14th Jan
Home vs Leinster 20th Jan

Oof. I'd love to think we could win 3 of those but it could as easily be 4 loses....

How do the Saffers travel?

Really depend on how strong a side they send they certainly aren’t the force they are at home

[TigerFeetSteve]

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Home vs Stormers 10th Dec
Away vs Stade Francais 17th Dec

Away vs La Rochelle 14th Jan
Home vs Leinster 20th Jan

Oof. I'd love to think we could win 3 of those but it could as easily be 4 loses....

How do the Saffers travel?

Really depend on how strong a side they send they certainly aren’t the force they are at home

A lot of it will depend on where their URC matches are beforehand (and after)

In the URC playing in SA is done in blocks. If say Stormers are in UK and Ireland for a number of weeks beforehand they may have their full squad on hand, if they have a block in SA beforehand then they'll probably keep their stars at home...

[TigerFeetSteve]

In terms of what team Stormers will put out vs us I looked at their Fixture list 3 weeks before and after:

Stormers:
Nov 18th away vs Munster (Europe)
Nov 24th away vs Cardiff (Europe)
Dec 1st home vs Zebre (SA)
Dec 10th away vs Tigers (Europe)
Dec 16th home vs La Rochelle (SA)
Dec 23rd home vs Bulls (SA)
Dec 30th home vs Cell C Sharks (SA)

Basically I suspect they will after the Cardiff game relocate part of their squad back to SA, for the Zebre game, the rest will relocate back after the Tigers.

Question really is which bit of their squad they leave vs which bit stays, given their run of games (other than Zebre) I'd suggest they want their A team back in SA acclimatising for a big run of games for them, so my suspicion is some of their stars may well not be playing against us.

[sam16111986]

Oof. I'd love to think we could win 3 of those but it could as easily be 4 loses....

How do the Saffers travel?

Really depend on how strong a side they send they certainly aren’t the force they are at home

A lot of it will depend on where their URC matches are beforehand (and after)

In the URC playing in SA is done in blocks. If say Stormers are in UK and Ireland for a number of weeks beforehand they may have their full squad on hand, if they have a block in SA beforehand then they'll probably keep their stars at home...

Got to hope Leinster win their first three and then send their second team to Welford Road. Of course their second team is still more than a bit handy and has quite a few internationals.

[GB72]

Really depend on how strong a side they send they certainly aren’t the force they are at home

A lot of it will depend on where their URC matches are beforehand (and after)

In the URC playing in SA is done in blocks. If say Stormers are in UK and Ireland for a number of weeks beforehand they may have their full squad on hand, if they have a block in SA beforehand then they'll probably keep their stars at home...

Got to hope Leinster win their first three and then send their second team to Welford Road. Of course their second team is still more than a bit handy and has quite a few internationals.

I also guess much will depend on the World Cup. The down side to having most of the Irish national side is that the rest of the season could depend on what state they come back in from the World Cup.

[Scott1]

Who is Leinsters new coach? Or are we talking about Lancasters replacement? If that's the case I don't think it will make much difference,certainly not in a detrimental sense anyway as I believe SL is vastly overrated

[Rugbygramps]

Really depend on how strong a side they send they certainly aren’t the force they are at home

A lot of it will depend on where their URC matches are beforehand (and after)

In the URC playing in SA is done in blocks. If say Stormers are in UK and Ireland for a number of weeks beforehand they may have their full squad on hand, if they have a block in SA beforehand then they'll probably keep their stars at home...

Got to hope Leinster win their first three and then send their second team to Welford Road. Of course their second team is still more than a bit handy and has quite a few internationals.

In reality you have to say the same about the South African provinces now after their second team hammered Australia

[Robespierre]

Two exciting home matches which I'd like to think will be a sell-out.

I'll hopefully be over for at least the Stormers game.