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
Australian club championship rugby union to the following year's Queensland Reds and NSW Waratahs match in the Super 14 competition. This is not necessarily a definitive list of all matches played. Australian club championship rugby union The Australian club championship is a rugby union challenge match between the Brisbane and Sydney club premiers. The fixture was played on a regular basis from 1982 to 1991 (inclusive) and again since 2007, and also on an ad-hoc basis in various other years. The regular scheduling was initially abandoned in 1993 when the NSWRU insisted on playing each match at Concord Oval in Sydney, rather than on a