But Ryan, who is prone to pointing out his team are still learning how to play Heineken Cup rugby and maturing nicely as they appreciate they do not have a responsibility to play all the rugby in European games, is taking nothing for granted.
"I don't want to be dictated to by having to go to America to play FedEx Cup when it doesn't really mean that much to me, " said the 37-year-old.
They play Slovakia, Holland and Slovenia, whilst November is reserved for potential 2010 World Cup play-off matches.
The Dutch, who have already reached the World Cup finals, play Scotland in a World Cup qualifier on Wednesday and may be without Sneijder who picked up an injury in the win.
The third, fourth and fifth-ranked Heineken Cup group runners-up will play in the Challenge Cup quarter-finals.
Meanwhile Woods has admitted that the Presidents Cup is more enjoyable to play in than the Ryder Cup.
Togo had been due to play their first cup game in Cabinda on Monday.
The games remaining matches got a bit out of kilter this weekend with FA Cup play.
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The Dragons lost 43-3 at Murrayfield on Saturday, damaging their hopes of avoiding the Heineken Cup play-off game.
Chaouchi performed superbly in the World Cup play-off win over Egypt when he deputised for the suspended Lounes Gaouaoui.
The tournament is the first leg of the four-event FedEx Cup play-off series.
"I'm convinced that Gavin Henson is a huge player and will play the World Cup with Wales, " said Toulon owner Mourad Boudjellal.
"I'd like to play another World Cup and if I'm to get through to it something has to give, " said the 32-year-old.
Emerick was the villain last season when he scored the winning try in Overmach Parma's Heineken Cup play-off win against the Dragons.
It is a repeat of their tense and controversial World Cup play-off match in November, which saw Algeria progress to the finals in South Africa.
But Charvis, Kevin Morgan and Aled Brew joined the Dragons' injury list, who face an 18 May Heineken Cup play-off against the third-best Italian side.
Charteris was named in McBryde's original training squad for the tour, but stayed behind to help the Dragons' beat Calvisano 42-17 in Friday's Heineken Cup play-off.
Westwood may have managed to play the Ryder Cup and the Dunhill Links Championship but he revealed he was some way short of fitness during both events.
The Swedish official was also the centre of controversy last November when he missed Thierry Henry's infamous handball in France's World Cup play-off win over the Republic of Ireland.
We have 15 games and United have to play in FA Cup and the Champions League so the season is long -- three months -- and we are confident.
Pavlyuchenko is in the Russia squad for the opening game of their World Cup play-off against Slovenia in Moscow on Saturday and plans to meet Redknapp with his agent afterwards.
"The three or four leaders are players past their prime who will never play a World Cup again, " FFF general secretary Henri Monteil told French daily newspaper La Charente Libre.
Emerick, 26, who specialises at centre but can cover full-back and wing, scored the late try that sealed the Dragons' 24-15 Heineken Cup play-off defeat by Overmach Parma on 2 June.
But the chance of a large Labour majority could be influenced by the England football team's result in Greece on Wednesday where they play their World Cup qualifier, a political analyst has warned.
In the hotel where I was staying in Cardiff, some of those supporters were drowning their sorrows before casting envious glances at the television to take in Ireland's World Cup play-off against France.
Hungary will be forced to play its World Cup qualifying match against Romania in an empty stadium after the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed an appeal by the Hungarian Football Federation on Tuesday.
Despite the number of injuries that have beset his fellow bowlers, Broad is confident that England will have a clean bill of health when they play their World Cup opener against Holland on 22 February in Nagpur.
It has since emerged that people at Liverpool did have serious concerns about the ground, but my own view at the time was that if they had agreed to play the European Cup Final there it must be fine.
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An infusion of foreign talent into a country with a faltering professional league and poor World Cup performances has paid dividends over the long term in knowledge-sharing and experience, contributing to revivals of both professional league and World Cup play.
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