MUNSTER 15 GLOUCESTER 10

Tom Voyce, Scott Lawson and Will James all make their first starts of preseason for Gloucester against Munster at Musgrave Park on Friday evening.

DOUG HOWLETT is just one of a number of senior players set tointensify Munster’s pre-season effort when they take on Gloucester at Musgrave Park tonight (7pm).

Newport Gwent Dragons 23 Gloucester 32

Gloucester 19 Glasgow Warriors 6

Munster can push reigning French champions Perpignan to the brink of Heineken Cup elimination tomorrow – and underline their own credentials for a possible third European title.

Biarritz 42 Gloucester 15

GLOUCESTER boss Bryan Redpath has put his team on red alert tonight for their Heineken Cup clash against a Newport Gwent Dragons side he believes will show “no fear”.

Castres 21 Wasps 15

There is uncertainty over the fitness of Leinster's two first choice props CJ van der Linde and Stan Wright ahead of their crucial Pool 2 Heineken Cup encounter with London Wasps at Twickenham on Saturday.

Director of rugby Ian McGeechan has named an unchanged starting line up for London Wasps clash with Leinster at the RDS on Saturday.

DANNY CIPRIANI and Josh Lewsey produced a neat one-two combination punch to floor Castres as Wasps opened their Heineken Cup campaign with an emphatic home victory yesterday.

Wasps 25 Castres 11

Rising England star Danny Cipriani appears unlikely to wear the national shirt until next year's RBS 6 Nations after Wasps confirmed he was set for six months on the sidelines with an ankle injury.

JAMES Simpson-Daniel is determined to help Gloucester cast off their nearly-men tag and finally savour Guinness Premiership title glory.

SARACENS’ director of rugby Alan Gaffney admitted his players’ faces were as pink as their shirts after the 40-29 defeat to Wasps that kept Ian McGeechan’s men on track for the Premiership play-offs.

Wasps 25 Clermont Auvergne 24

Clermont Auvergne 37 Wasps 27

Jonny Wilkinson could make his first appearance since the World Cup final next weekend.

Wasps 24 Munster 23

If Wasps’ England stars are looking for a tonic for their World Cup final agony, they will not have to wait long.

David Strettle and Mike Tindall could both be ruled out of World Cup contention today when England boss Brian Ashton assesses his casualty list.

Wasps 30 Northampton 13

Northampton prop Tom Smith has demanded Saints once again cast aside the shackles of their dismal league form when they meet Wasps in tomorrow’s Heineken Cup semi-final.

Raphael Ibanez has declared Wasps’ Heineken Cup semi-final clash against Northampton tomorrow as a “time to deliver” in the pursuit of another European title.

Castres 13 Wasps 16

Wasps 55 Treviso 0

Wasps 19 Castres 13

England have dismissed Australian claims of underhand tactics in their attempts to stop tearaway flanker George Smith during the world champions’ 34-3 first Test defeat.

England’s return to the scene of their 2003 World Cup final triumph ended in a predictable and painful defeat as Australia sunk them following an error-marred Telstra Stadium showdown.

LONDON IRISH held their nerve to win a sensational game of 14 tries, guaranteeing a place in the end-of-season play-offs and destroying Wasps’ 16-month unbeaten home league record.

THE importance of winning yesterday’s Powergen Cup final was lost on Llanelli winger Mark Jones as soon as he spotted his stricken captain Simon Easterby lying prostrate on the Twickenham turf.

FORGET about the rugby, this was pure theatre. When Andy Goode slotted a penalty to put England three points ahead with five minutes remaining at Twickenham, Ireland’s Triple Crown aspirations looked dead and buried.

ANDY ROBINSON has refuted suggestions he has “lost the dressing room” following England’s abysmal Six Nations Championship display against France in Paris last Sunday.

AFTER the heroics of Brave Inca, Newmill, War of Attrition and all the others at Cheltenham and the excitement and colour of St Patrick's Day, it now only needs Eddie O'Sullivan's men to beat England today to put the crowning touch in the 2006 RBS Six Nations clash at Twickenham.

Twickenham boss Francis Baron has stressed the need for England to halt their slump ahead of Saturday’s RBS Six Nations Championship appointment with Ireland.

DEFIANT England boss Andy Robinson is confident he can put his ailing world champions back on track despite another season of underachievement in the Six Nations.

Andy Robinson has wielded the axe after England’s French farce and dropped six World Cup winners for the Six Nations Championship finale against Ireland at Twickenham on Saturday.

A number of England players were less than 100% fit for yesterday’s humiliating 31-6 defeat to France in Paris because they were suffering from a stomach bug, it has been claimed.

France 31 England 6

SCOTLAND head coach Frank Hadden insists Nathan Hines was never going to be fully prepared in time for a start against England in the RBS 6 Nations Championship on Saturday.

ENGLAND hooker Steve Thompson has predicted an 80-minute battle against Italy today when the world champions target their first RBS 6 Nations Championship away win in two years.

England hooker Steve Thompson has predicted an 80-minute battle against Italy tomorrow when the world champions target their first RBS Six Nations Championship away win in two years.