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Top 14 Recap: Oyonnax’s Urdapilleta Kicks Racing Metro Into Touch

November 2, 2014 James Harrington 3

CASTRES, FRANCE – Lowly Oyonnax threw the Top 14 form book out of the window, across the street and into the river this weekend when […]

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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 […]

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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 Recap: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

September 7, 2014 James Harrington 8

CASTRES, FRANCE – Montpellier, Clermont and Grenoble were good; Castres, Racing Metro and Toulouse were bad; and Toulon were ugly. Castres’ unbeaten run against Montpellier, […]

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Top 14 Recap: Toulon Lay Waste To La Rochelle

August 24, 2014 James Harrington 6

CASTRES, FRANCE – Toulon’s workmanlike opening-night victory at Bayonne last week prompted some pundits to say that the champions had laid down an early marker […]

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Top 14 Recap: Toulouse Flood Breaks Oyonnax Defences

August 17, 2014 James Harrington 11

CASTRES, FRANCE – Toulouse new boy Toby Flood enjoyed a memorable Top 14 debut. He scored all his side’s points as they scraped past a […]