{"id":29647,"date":"2012-07-11T10:18:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T10:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=29647"},"modified":"2012-07-11T10:18:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T10:18:20","slug":"rabodirect-pro12-season-201213-fixtures-announced-live-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/rabodirect-pro12-season-201213-fixtures-announced-live-here\/","title":{"rendered":"RaboDirect PRO12 Season 2012\/13 Fixtures Announced LIVE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend dates for the RaboDirect PRO12 Season 2012\/13 fixtures have now been announced, and the race is on to see which venue will become the 35thdifferent ground to be used in the history of the competition.<br \/>\nTo Download the fixture list CLICK <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2012-13_fixtures_iss5._xls.pdf\">HERE<\/a><br \/>\nDuring Round Two, the weekend of 7\/8\/9 September, two new grounds are set to make their bow \u2013 Scotstoun Stadium in Glasgow and Stadio XXV Aprile in Parma, home to the new Italian team, Zebre. <\/p>\n<p>However first up for Italian new boys is a trip to Newport Gwent Dragons in Wales, whilst reigning champions, Ospreys, face the reverse journey as they play the second  Italian outfit, Benetton Treviso, at Stadio Monigo. <\/p>\n<p>RaboDirect PRO12 Finalists and European champions Leinster start this season\u2019s campaign in Wales with a game at Parc y Scarlets in Llanelli, whilst the other two 2011\/12 Play-Off contenders, Glasgow Warriors and Munster, face away trips to Ulster and Edinburgh respectively. Cardiff Blues visit to Galway to play Connacht makes up the opening weekend\u2019s fixtures. <\/p>\n<p>Round Two sees Cardiff Blues play their first home RaboDirect PRO12 game since completing their return to Cardiff Arms Park when Edinburgh are the visitors. One new ground will make its bow when Scarlets are the first visitor to Scotstoun Stadium, whilst Connacht will play Zebre in the opening match at Stadio XXV Aprile. Leinster, Munster and Ospreys host the remaining three games in the second round. <\/p>\n<p>RaboDirect PRO12 Season 2012\/13 <\/p>\n<p>Round 1 \u2013  31 August\/1\/2 September<\/p>\n<p>Benetton Treviso v Ospreys<\/p>\n<p>Connacht v Cardiff Blues<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh Rugby v Munster<\/p>\n<p>Newport Gwent Dragons v Zebre<\/p>\n<p>Scarlets v Leinster<\/p>\n<p>Ulster v Glasgow Warriors<\/p>\n<p>Round 2 \u2013 7\/8\/9 September<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff Blues v Edinburgh Rugby<\/p>\n<p>Glasgow Warriors v Scarlets<\/p>\n<p>Leinster v Newport Gwent Dragons<\/p>\n<p>Munster v Benetton Treviso<\/p>\n<p>Ospreys v Ulster<\/p>\n<p>Zebre v Connacht<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend dates for the RaboDirect PRO12 Season 2012\/13 fixtures have now been announced, and the race is on to see which venue will become the 35thdifferent ground to be used in the history of the competition. To Download the fixture list CLICK HERE During Round Two, the weekend of 7\/8\/9 September, two new grounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9606,5881,6164,6163],"class_list":["post-29647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-9606","tag-fixtures","tag-pro12","tag-rabodirect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}