The Investec Championship Cup is starting on Friday

THe SA eams involved - namely the Bulls, Sharks and Stormers are laying in the folloing matches:-

*    The Sharks vs  Exeter Chiefs   -   Saturday

*    The Stormers against Toulon   -   Saturday

*    Saracens against the Bulls       -   Sunday

Interesting matches since the Bulls will have to play Saracens in London and their  twam ia already in he UK,   matches are in  SA  fo teother two teams.    The problem for the Buils in travelling is not a major issue since hey were in the UK for their last match and relcaing to London for the Saracens match is not an issue.   However to the Seven series in Cape Town the Stormers  will play Toulon in PS.      

Fo the Stormers I ope that Sacha and Willemse is fit to play and the Sharks will have a battle on their  hands against Exete Chiefs.   Ineesting games a plenty starting on Friday with 3 matches - on Saturday with 11 matches and on Sunday with 6 matches to be played,

So plenty of rugby coming our way ttis weekend with 20 maches to be played,  I will try to get all the 40 teams involved on this site before Friday evening - but whether hat will be possible is always going to be problematic.

Exeter have been very poor this season, Mike. They are currently bottom of the Premiership table. 

They’ve missed Henry Slade and Mani Feyi-Waboso during the England matches and actually looked a better team with them both back last weekend. However, they still lost. 

It will be interesting to see how they fare against the Sharks.