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Top 14 Recap: Mola Era at Toulouse Kicks Off with Win

August 24, 2015 James Harrington 3

CASTRES, FRANCE – The 2015/16 Top 14 season kicked off with a surprise home defeat for 2014 champions Toulon, an early warning from Clermont that […]

Top 14 Recap: Toulouse Comeback Stuns Toulon… And Other Headlines

March 29, 2015 James Harrington 3

CASTRES, FRANCE – The Top 14 did its best to recreate the glorious mayhem of the final weekend of the RBS 6 Nations. The number […]

Top 14 Preview: Why Only A Vintage Bordeaux Performance Will Be Good Enough

March 12, 2015 James Harrington 5

CASTRES, FRANCE – To say Top 14 play-off contenders Bordeaux have had a tough run in the league recently is an understatement bordering on the […]

Top 14 Preview: Tension Mounts as Top 14 Enters Final Eight Weeks

March 5, 2015 James Harrington 2

CASTRES, FRANCE – Eighteen regular Top 14 season weekends down, eight to go – and the play-off slots are currently occupied by, in order: Clermont, […]

Top 14 Recap: Toulouse Wreck Halfpenny Debut

October 13, 2014 James Harrington 4

CASTRES, FRANCE – There was added international flavour to the Top 14 weekend. There’s always an international flavour, of course, with so many overseas players […]