Bloodgate her cutting of Williams's lip to hide his use of the blood capsule.. On 2 September 2009, it was reported that Harlequins had escaped being thrown out of the Heineken Cup following the scandal when the board of organisers European Rugby Cup (ERC) said it approved of the bans and fines already handed out. The affair was dubbed by many in the media "Bloodgate". Leinster won the game 6–5, going on to win the Heineken Cup for the first time. Mark Evans, chief executive of Harlequin FC has said: Richards resigned from his post at Harlequins over an incident in
Tasmanian Rugby Union inaugural winners. The women’s fifteen-a-side rugby competition in Tasmania concluded in 2009 due to lack of numbers. The ladies who played were very passionate about the game of rugby, however at that time Tasmania only had four teams in the women’s division, Devonport Rugby Club, Eastern Suburbs Rugby Union Football Club Inc., Taroona Rugby Club and Glenorchy Rugby Union Football Club. In 2015 Tasmania produced the first representative girls rugby sevens team. The under 17 age group team represented Tasmania in the graysonline.com Australian Sevens Development Tournament in Wagga Wagga. They will faced teams from Victoria, NSW, Queensland, ACT and