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Friday:
Bristol 40 Bedford 25
Saturday:
Gloucester 31 Newcastle 16
Harlequins 10 Bath 30
Northampton 46 Leicester 24
Sale 16 Wasps 8
Sunday:
Saracens 23 London Irish 28
No tremendous surprises in the first round of the championship.
Bristol will be delighted to have a winning start back in the top
division, and Bath managed to spoil Will Carling's first game
captaining Harlequins in convincing style. Northampton hammered
Leicester up front to convincingly win the battle between last
season's top two sides. Maybe the biggest surprise was Sale, who have
again lost a pile of players, beating Wasps. Sunday's game saw new
"superclub" London Irish defeat the early favourites for the
championship, Saracens.
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Coventry 30 Henley 3
London Welsh 20 Rotherham 16
Orrell 23 Wakefield 13
Waterloo 9 Moseley 29
West Hartlepool 19 Manchester 24
Worcester 73 Rugby 0
All the best
John Williams.