Tough draw for European rugby champions Wasps

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2007

CARDIFF (AFP) — European Cup holders Wasps face the toughest possible start to the defence of their crown after being drawn in a first-round pool alongside 2006 champions Munster.

Clermont Auvergne, runners-up in last season's French championship, and Welsh outfit Llanelli Scarlets, who reached the semi-finals of last season's European Cup, make up a top-heavy pool five.

Only the top teams from each of the six pools are sure to advance to the knockout stages of the competition with the two best runners-up making up the quarter-finalists.

Pool six also looks set to be fiercely fought with Leinster joined by former winners Leicester and Toulouse as well as Edinburgh.

Next season's action gets underway on the weekend of November 9-11. The final will be...

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