IT SHOULD come as a surprise to precisely no one that Top 14 managers consider Toulouse favourites to lift the Brennus at the far end of the long 2026/27 campaign. The champions, bidding for a historic fifth title in a row to overtake the best run of the club’s golden generation of the 1990s, picked up half the 14 votes of the league’s bosses in the annual pre-campaign poll by Midi Olympique.
Ugo Mola’s side kick off their season tonight – with their sole new signing Tommaso Menoncello at 12 and under-20 international Romeo Bonnard Martin in the back row &#...