The race for the first ever Magners League playoffs is beginning to hot up, and this weekend sees a welcome return to action for the Celtic clubs.
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Irish hooker Jerry Flannery has been suspended for a period of six weeks after a Six Nations disciplinary committee upheld the citing against him for kicking an opponent in last weekend’s match between France and Ireland at the Stade de France.  This rules him out of the rest of the tournament.

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Andy Powell’s weekend shenanigans after their match with Scotland has resulted in him being removed from Wales’ 35-man squad.
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The Ireland camp have released a statement confirming that Rob Kearney may miss the game against England in a fortnight’s time.
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Please accept our apologies for the issues we’ve had on The Rugby Blog today – it’s been a pretty frustrating time all round.

As mentioned last week, we moved everything to a nice new server with guaranteed 24/7 ‘uptime’. That went down overnight.

So now we have another shiny new server, and hopefully it will be slightly more reliable. We’ve lost a few articles that we had published this week, but we’ll do our best to restore everything.

The news has just broken that Toby Flood will replace Riki Flutey in England’s starting line-up.
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The waiting is nearly over! The anticipation ahead of the opening round of the 2010 RBS Six Nations is nearly killing me, but it’s now time to make my SportGuru predictions for this weekend’s matches.
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We have upgraded our server here at The Rugby Blog HQ to give us a bit more power in the engine room – it should help the pages to load more quickly during busy traffic periods. Whilst we migrate to the new server, you might notice some odd behaviour.
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