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Top 14 Recap: Stade’s Matchwinner Plisson Stakes France Claim With 17-Minute Masterclass

March 8, 2015 James Harrington 4

CASTRES, FRANCE – Jules Plisson dropped a clear hint to France coach Philippe Saint-Andre that he is ready to reclaim the national side’s number 10 […]

Six Nations Recap: PSA Rips Into French ‘Starlets’ After Wales Capitulation

March 2, 2015 James Harrington 6

International rugby is about combat, humility. But, above all, it’s a collective sport. We don’t need starlets. In rugby, the team is the star and […]

Top 14 Recap: Bordeaux’s Chalmers Has Last Laugh In Toulon’s Comedy Of Rugby Errors

February 22, 2015 James Harrington 14

CASTRES, FRANCE – A try on the stroke of halftime gave Bordeaux the kick in the derrière they needed to make a game of their […]

Six Nations Recap: Ireland Dig Deep To Pass Brutal French Test

February 16, 2015 James Harrington 9

CASTRES, FRANCE – The second weekend of the 2015 Six Nations offered, in order, an entertaining exhibition in London, a brutal and unforgiving war of […]

Six Nations Recap: England Win Battle Of Wits In Cardiff

February 8, 2015 James Harrington 9

CASTRES, FRANCE – Voices were raised in song at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium on Friday – but it was the words to Swing Low Sweet Chariot […]

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 […]