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Top 14 Preview: Yes, Rugby Life Exists Outside Soldier Field

October 30, 2014 James Harrington 4

CASTRES, FRANCE – Contrary to what new American rugby fans may have heard recently, the game does exist beyond the boundaries of Chicago’s Soldier Field, […]

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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 […]

Top 14 Preview: Leigh Halfpenny Set For Toulon Debut

October 9, 2014 James Harrington 7

CASTRES, FRANCE – The ninth round of the Top 14, and the last before the shiny new European Rugby Champions and Challenges Cups kick off, […]

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Top 14 Recap: Bordeaux Break Clermont

October 5, 2014 James Harrington 13

CASTRES, FRANCE – The capricious and contrary Top 14 went completely crazy this weekend. Forty-one tries were scored in seven games – 27 of them […]

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Top 14 Preview: Troubles Mount For Toulouse

October 2, 2014 James Harrington 8

CASTRES, FRANCE – Thirty Top 14 players have spent part of this week at a French training camp, as coach Philippe Saint-Andre begins to plot […]

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Top 14 Recap: Five of the Worst for Toulouse

September 28, 2014 James Harrington 3

CASTRES, FRANCE – You’d have got long odds at the beginning of the Top 14 season if you’d bet that Toulouse and Castres would be […]