Top 14 talking points: all over bar the play-off shouting
Who reached the Top 14 play-offs, who didn't, what they said, and what it means…
Top 14 talking points: all over bar the play-off shouting
Who reached the Top 14 play-offs, who didn't, what they said, and what it means…
What Racing 92’s big Clermont win means for the final round of French rugby’s Top 14
The scale and manner of Racing 92’s Top 14 win on Sunday changed a host of top-six calculations for the final round of matches this coming weekend
Top 14 talking points: All about Bordeaux and Montpellier
How French Champions and Challenge Cup finalists Bordeaux and Montpellier fared the weekend before their title matches against Leinster and Ulster in Bilbao … along with the other 12 sides in the Top 14
Top 14 talking points: And then there were eight
With three rounds of the regular Top 14 season to go, eight teams are left in the hunt for just six play-off places
The other Kpoku brother
Quietly, and with little of the media fuss that has surrounded his brothers, Jonathan Kpoku is carving out a rugby career in France that he hopes will continue for a long time to come
Top 14 talking points: To the wire on a record-breaking weekend
Late drama and four away wins. French rugby's Top 14 had it all in the round before the Champions and Challenge Cup semi-final weekend
Top 14 talking points: La Rochelle want to believe again
France’s Top 14 returned with a Fan Days weekend to launch a two-match run before a hiatus for the Champions and Challenge Cup semi-finals.
Vannes, Montauban, Perpignan and French rugby’s play-off problem
French rugby is proud of its open pyramid structure that allows for any side to dream an impossibly big dream. In theory. But not, increasingly, in practice
Top 14 talking points: Cup knockout dress rehearsals
How France’s Top 14 sides got on in their last domestic game before the return of the Champions and Challenge Cups
Top 14 talking points: Results blueshift
A total 17 of the 34 players who took part in France’s Six Nations-winning campaign were straight back in domestic action this weekend, as the Top 14 returned
Top 14 talking points: Street smart La Rochelle crash Castres’ big birthday party
Ronan O’Gara’s La Rochelle snap a 56-day winless streak, Toulouse hit the big 100 for the season, and Toulon step-up for recuperating manager Pierre Mignoni
‘Sliding doors’ moments that changed Pau fullback Jack Maddocks’ life forever
A try scored by a fellow Australian halfway across the world brought Jack Maddocks to the shadow of the Pyrenees in 2021. This is the story of what happened next