A NEW ERA began over the weekend as the inaugural Guinness Pro14 season kicked off, with the fresh arrivals from South Africa finding the going tough in their new surroundings.
Southern Kings and Toyota Cheetahs both suffered heavy defeats, while it was a mostly positive weekend for the Irish provinces.
Ulster and Munster kicked things off on Friday night with comfortable victories over the Cheetahs and Benetton Treviso respectively. Leinster overcame Bernard Jackman’s Newport Gwent Dragons on Saturday afternoon, before Connacht suffered a narrow defeat to Glasgow Warriors in Kieran Keane’s first game in charge.
If you didn’t catch any of the action, here’s what you missed…
Munster 34-3 Benetton Treviso
Ulster 42-19 Toyota Cheetahs
Newport Gwent Dragons 16-39 Leinster
Connacht 12-18 Glasgow Warriors
Cardiff Blues 10-20 Edinburgh
Ospreys 22-13 Zebre
Scarlets 57-10 Southern Kings
This is where football is at now, manager gets ten games and if the results are not good enough, the sack. Clubs want immediate gratification and have no interest in a long term plan. Sad stuff…..Hope Pulis got a nice parting handshake.
How In the name of God could you turn a club around in 45 days that’s absolutely crazy.
Sheffield Wednesday are a terrible club, I hope they get relegated to league one.
@James: whys that James ? Give us your insight to the club?
Hopefully this will result in a Boro win this evening. Dreadful decision by a ridiculous club who were once one of the originals. Pulis has always been a decent bloke
@Rory O’Connor: 3 points in the bag. Not bad for a ridiculous club.
Horrible anti football tactics. Hopefully that’s the last we’ve seen of his pukey tactics