Blues take on their old rivals Gloucester in their Anglo-Welsh Cup opener.CARDIFF Blues Cardiff Blues (Welsh: Gleision Caerdydd) are one of the four professional Welsh rugby union teams. Based in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, the team play at Cardiff Arms Park and are owned by Cardiff Rugby Football Club. and Gloucester will square up on the opening weekend of the Anglo-Welsh Cup in a repeat of last season's final. The Blues will travel to Kingsholm on November 6 as they aim to keep up their recent stranglehold over the Cherry and Whites. The Ospreys take on Northampton at Franklin's Gardens, while the Newport Gwent Dragons host the Sale Sharks Sale Sharks are a professional rugby union team who play in England in the Guinness Premiership. The club is an offshoot of Sale F.C., which is based in Sale, Greater Manchester, but Sharks currently play in Stockport at Edgeley Park, ground sharing with Stockport County F.C. on the same night with Worcester v Newcastle on November 7. The final fixtures of the opening weekend see the Scarlets come up against Harlequins at The Stoop as well as Saracens v Bath, London Irish
London Irish (also known as The Exiles) are an English rugby union club who are based in Sunbury, Surrey (16 miles from London) where they train. v Wasps and Leeds v Leicester. After a restructuring of the tournament format, it will now have a cross-pool competition meaning teams in Pool One will play teams in Pool Four and teams in Pool Two play teams in Pool Three. As well as this, fixtures will now take place on weekends during November's autumn internationals The Autumn internationals are a series of rugby union matches contested each November, usually all within the northern hemisphere, specifically in those nations that contest the Six Nations Championship. and the Six Nations, leaving many teams without their international players. Anglo-Welsh Cup 2009/10 fixtures Round One November 6: Newport Gwent Dragons v Sale Sharks (7.30pm), Ospreys v Northampton Saints (7.30pm), Gloucester v Cardiff Blues (7.45pm). November 7: Worcester Warriors v Newcastle Falcons For the Australian basketball team of the same name, see . The Newcastle Falcons is a rugby union team currently playing in the Guinness Premiership. The team plays at Kingston Park in Newcastle upon Tyne. (12.30pm). November 8: Harlequins v Scarlets (1.45pm), Leeds v Leicester Tigers (3pm), Saracens v Bath (3pm), London Irish v London Wasps (3pm) Round Two November 13: Sale Sharks v Leeds (7.45pm). November 14: Bath v Ospreys (1pm), Northampton Saints v Saracens (1pm), Leicester Tigers v Newport Gwent Dragons (3pm), Scarlets v Worcester Warriors (3pm). November 15: Cardiff Blues v London Irish (1.45pm), London Wasps v Gloucester (3pm), Newcastle Falcons v Harlequins (3pm) Round Three January 29: Sale Sharks v Northampton Saints (7.45pm), Newport Gwent Dragons v Ospreys (7.30pm), Leeds v Saracens (7.30pm). January 30: Leicester Tigers v Bath (3pm), Gloucester v Worcester Warriors (3pm). January 31: London Wasps v Scarlets (3pm), Cardiff Blues v Newcastle Falcons (3pm), London Irish v Harlequins (3pm) Round Four February 4: Ospreys v Leeds (7.30pm). February 6: Northampton Saints v Leicester Tigers (3pm), Bath v Sale Sharks (2.15pm), Scarlets v Cardiff Blues (3pm), Worcester Warriors v London Irish (3pm). February 7: Saracens v Newport Gwent Dragons (3pm), Newcastle Falcons v London Wasps (3pm), Harlequins v Gloucester (3pm) Semi-finals: March 12-14, venue tbc Final: March 19-21, venue tbc |
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