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THE PLAYERS ARE back training, the provinces are ploughing ahead with plans to put competitive rugby back on our screens late next month by attempting to wrap up the 2019/20 season – with a chunk of in-between fixtures marked cancelled.
But if the tournaments were up and running this weekend, would you remember how everyone stood? Or perhaps you’ve watched so much TV in lockdown you need a ‘previously on’ refresher for each team’s own little soap opera.
How well you remember how the season was unfolding?
At close of play, who had scored the most points in this season's Pro14?
John Cooney
Ross Byrne
Ruan Pienaar
JJ Hanrahan
Leinster were clear leaders of the Pro14's Conference A, who topped the polls in Conference B?
Munster
Glasgow Warriors
Edinburgh
Scarlets
What was the first Pro14 fixture postponed due to Covid-19?
Dragons v Benetton
Zebre v Ospreys
Cardiff v Benetton
Zebre v Munster
Let's call this section of the quiz, 'last-gasp winners': Whose very late try in Swansea ensured Munster started their European campaign with a bonus point victory?
James Cronin
Kevin O'Byrne
Dave Kilcoyne
Steven Archer
And who came up with a last-minute try-saver to ensure Ulster got their Heineken Cup run off to a winning start?
Jacob Stockdale
Will Addison
Marcell Coetzee
Rob Herring
Connacht got a badly-needed win in dramatic circumstances thanks to what player's late winning try against Gloucester?
Tom Daly
Matt Healy
Robin Copeland
Bundee Aki
Leinster were rattling along nicely throughout the season. How long was their winning streak in competitive matches before the season came to a halt?
20
21
22
23
Can you name the Irish player level with Teddy Thomas as the leading try-scorer (with 6 tries) in the Heineken Champions Cup?
Dave Kearney
Simon Zebo
Garry Ringrose
Robert Baloucoune
How many pool-stage tries did John Cooney score as Ulster progressed to the European quarter-finals?
Zero
Two
Three
Five
Who did Connacht beat to nil in February, emphatically ending a five-match losing streak?
Southern Kings
Cardiff Blues
Ospreys
Dragons
You scored out of !
You remember it like it was this year
You haven't completely plugged out and switched off. You're waiting for rugby with bated breath.
You scored out of !
Listen, it's a while ago
You jogged the memory and eventually got it moving through the shallow annals of the very recent past
You scored out of !
What's done is done
What use is it looking in the past? Let it lie.
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