The Heineken Cup draw is out! With a few surprises!

[The Man]

More details about the draw just done at

http://www.ercrugby.com

The final is at Stade De France, inspite of the grog laws

Pool 1

Munster
USA Perpignan
Northampton
Treviso

Great little group with Perpignan to FINALLY play at the Nou Camp against Munster




Pool 2
Biarritz Olympique
Gloucester
Newport
Glasgow

Weak group with Glasgow having a gret chance to host a QF

Pool 3
Leicester
Neath-Swansea
ASM
Viadana

Poor Viadana .....and Ospreys



Pool 4
Bath
Stade Français
Ulster
Edinburgh

Another weird group and great for Ulster



Pool 5
Stade Toulousain
Cardiff
Sale
Harlequin

This is the group of the HC , all on the up



Pool 6
Leinster
London Irish
Llanelli
Brive

Book Landsdowne Rd for a qf!

[jargan83]

Is this drawn along similar lines to the Football World Cup, teams are seeded and it works out that seeds 1 through 6 end up in the first pot and won't be drawn against each other in the pool stages?

[beige]

From Wikipedia: "The competing 24 teams are ranked based on past performance[4] and arranged into four tiers of six teams, with the reigning champion automatically appearing in the top tier. Each pool receives one team at random from each tier; again, this is subject to the restriction that each pool cannot contain more than one team from each competing nation, except where France or England supply seven teams." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heineken_cup#Pool_stage

Great little group with Perpignan to FINALLY play at the Nou Camp against Munster

Awesome if true but where is the Nou Camp mentioned on the website?

[welshrugbyfan]

Pool 2
Biarritz Olympique
Gloucester
Newport
Glasgow

Weak group with Glasgow having a gret chance to host a QF

Easy......