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Top 14 Preview: Sexton’s A Racing Certainty This Weekend – But McCaw Shrugs Off Pau Rumours

February 19, 2015 James Harrington 6

CASTRES, FRANCE – Rumours that Richie McCaw would see out his career in France’s Top 14 after the 2015 Rugby World Cup would appear to […]

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Top 14 Recap: Shocks for Clermont and Stade while Toulouse Flood Drowns Castres

February 1, 2015 James Harrington 2

CASTRES, FRANCE – In 2013, Castres Olympique were crowned Top 14 champions. In 2014, they scraped into the play-offs and then ended Clermont’s epic four-year […]

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Top 14 Preview: Serious Rugby To Plug The Europe-Six Nations Gap

January 30, 2015 James Harrington 1

CASTRES, FRANCE – Were not for the Top 14, the one-week gap between the end of the pool stages of Europe’s club competitions and the […]

Top 14 Recap: Clermont Reclaim Top Spot On A Sombre Sporting Weekend

January 11, 2015 James Harrington 2

CASTRES, FRANCE – It was a sombre yet strangely charged Top 14 weekend, as France grieved in the aftermath of three days of attacks on […]

Top 14 Recap: A Tale Of Two South Africans

January 5, 2015 James Harrington 2

CASTRES, FRANCE – Fly-half Morne Steyn further blotted his already heavily marked copybook at Stade Francais when he was sent off just 32 minutes his […]

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Top 14 Preview: Jake White Faces Baptism Of Toulonnais Fire

January 1, 2015 James Harrington 4

CASTRES, FRANCE – The 15th round of the Top 14 season features two bottom-of-the-table dogfights – one of which is a battle between west-coast neighbours; […]