It would mean the fourth-placed Welsh Magners League team automatically entering the European Challenge Cup.
Ruddock led the Warriors to the European Challenge Cup final in his first season in charge.
Meanwhile Leeds have avoided a group of death in the European Challenge Cup next season.
The veteran centre has inspired London Irish to the Premiership play-offs and the European Challenge Cup final.
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Young also admits Sunday's European Challenge Cup tie with French side Albi will be a bruising encounter.
He is expected to make his first-team return in Saturday's European Challenge Cup game at home to French side Bayonne.
Worcester Warriors play Montpellier in the European Challenge Cup at Sixways on Thursday 8 October (kick-off 1945 BST).
Under Ryan, Gloucester have won the 2006 European Challenge Cup and have topped the Premiership for the last two seasons.
Even under that restraint the Dragons reached the semi-final of this season's European Challenge Cup, European club rugby's second-tier competition.
Cueto has won three trophies as a Sale player, the 2006 Guinness Premiership and the European Challenge Cup in 2002 and 2005.
Hartley's most recent appearance was the 2009 European Challenge Cup final victory over Bourgoin, a performance in which he won the man-of-the-match award.
They were try and win the European Challenge Cup, be in the top six at Christmas and the top four at the end.
Falcons sit in the Premiership top six, and are home quarter-finalists in the European Challenge Cup, both potential routes into Europe's premier prize.
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Victory means Northampton, last season's European Challenge Cup winners, qualify for next season's Heineken Cup and keep their hopes of a treble alive.
The changes come after discussions with the unions, leagues and clubs involved aimed at "enhancing the quality and profile of the European Challenge Cup matches".
Falcons now have a fortnight's break from Premiership action, with their involvement in the European Challenge Cup beginning with the trip to Petrarca Padova on Saturday.
Montgomerie himself preferred to concentrate publicly at Whistling Straits on the European challenge, which is being led by Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy and England's Simon Khan.
But from manager O'Neill's point of view his side's objective was achieved in the first leg and the team can now look forward to their European challenge.
He guided Warriors to 10th place in his first season in charge as well as taking them to the European Challenge Cup final, which they lost to Bath.
Bath qualified for next year's Heineken Cup by virtue of their league position, while Saracens can reach Europe's premier competition if they win this season's European Challenge Cup.
The former England Under-20 star says he knew exactly what had happened when he was injured in the first half of the European Challenge Cup tie in France.
The playoff between a Celtic side and an Italian side has been scrapped with the winners of the European Challenge Cup earning an extra place for their country instead.
Meanwhile, Leeds will be without flanker Kearnan Myall for Sunday's European Challenge Cup game with Crociati at Headingley because of the leg injury he picked up in the defeat at Harlequins.
That should be the next great european challenge !
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Gloucester secured the European Challenge Cup in his first season at the club and finished top of the Guinness Premiership in each of the following two campaigns, only to lose in the play-offs.
It marked the most successful period in the club's history as they went from claiming the European Challenge Cup in 2005 to taking the Premiership title in 2006 and progressed to the Heineken Cup quarter-finals.
He also hopes the Dragons management take note of their semi-final cup appearance, the only in the region's history apart from a 2007 European Challenge Cup last four defeat to Clermont Auvergne, and invest in infrastructure to improve their promising players.
After joining the club as a player in 1990, he went on to join the coaching staff in 2001, alongside current Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder, and led the Sharks to second place in the Premiership and victory in the European Challenge Cup.
But almost immediately after the war, Arab resistance movements emerged to challenge European dominance.
Consider Qualcomm, which has emerged from the ether to challenge European supremacy in cell phones.
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