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Bordeaux put their faith in Gazzotti

30 July 2023 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN FRANCE U20 sensation Marko Gazzotti has swapped the Alps for the Atlantic and the ProD2 for the Top 14 after agreeing […]

Georgia and Israel in line for Challenge Cup

2 July 2023 1 comment

By JON NEWCOMBE Teams from Georgia, Israel and South Africa are in the running to fill the two vacant spots in the 2023/24 European Challenge […]

Toulouse play to win…everything!

18 June 2023 0 comments

Toulouse aren’t short of a bob or two and can, if they so wish, buy virtually any player on the planet. But their Academy, with […]

Garbajosa joins list of axed coaches

18 June 2023 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN It has been a busy week in various corridors of power in French rugby – with, in chronological order, the removal […]

Abendanon: French rugby is far more fun

11 June 2023 0 comments

By NICK POWELL Former England full-back Nick Abendanon says that the Premiership is not entertaining enough to compete with the French club game and worries […]

Scarlets make van den Berg forwards coach

4 June 2023 0 comments

FORMER South Africa lock Albert van den Berg, 49, is the Scarlets new forwards coach, replacing Ben Franks who has returned to New Zealand.Van den […]

Kremer’s red gives Racing easy ride

4 June 2023 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Argentinian back-row Marcos Kremer’s last act for Stade Francais was to get sent off – for the third time this season […]

All to play for in final days of the season

14 May 2023 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Top 14 coaches, pundits and fans have had the calculators, slide rules and computer modelling programmes out last weekend as they […]

Sharks likely to miss out on Latu

7 May 2023 0 comments

Sale’s bid to sign hooker Tolu Latu could fail after they appear to have been gazumped at the last minute by an unnamed club in […]

Boost for finances as recovery continues

7 May 2023 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN THE Commission des Championnats professionnels de l’Autorité de régulation du rugby – the new name for the financial auditors of the […]

Toulouse look set to lead from the front

30 April 2023 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN As the French Top 14 takes a week’s break for the Champions and Challenge Cup semi-finals, here’s a look at the […]

Falcons wing Carreras on French radar

23 April 2023 0 comments

BY NEIL FISSLER Newcastle wing sensation Mateo Carreras is on the radar of big-spending French clubs despite having another year left to run on his […]

Scarlets grit it out to set up clash with Clermont

2 April 2023 0 comments

By ROGER PANTING Scarlets ……….. 19pts Tries: Fifita 50, Shingler 78 Penalties: Costelow 3, 15, 28 Brive……………….. 7pts Tries: Olding 47 Conversions: Olding 48 SCARLETS […]

Easy for Clermont as Bears stumble

2 April 2023 0 comments

By TOM BRADSHAW Bristol ………………………….. 26pts Tries: Randall 34, Radradra 38 Conversions: MacGinty 35, 39 Penalties: MacGinty 11, 18, 49, 78 Clermont……………………… 33pts Tries: Lavanini […]

Parra has his eye on a final flourish

2 April 2023 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN For a while, it looked as if Morgan Parra’s season – and possibly his career – had ended with an unwelcome […]

Irish out to replace Simmons

26 March 2023 1 comment

ON THE BLINDSIDE BY NEIL FISSLER London Irish are searching for someone to replace veteran Wallaby star Rob Simmons who is departing the Premiership to […]

Wallaby Simmons says au revoir to Irish Exiles

26 March 2023 1 comment

NEWS EXTRA LONDON Irish lock Rob Simmons will join Clermont Auvergne on a two-year deal as the exodus of top-line players from English rugby continues. […]

Six Nations squads in-depth: France

22 January 2023 0 comments

Grand Slam champions France go into this year’s Six Nations without several key players as Fabien Galthie endures an ever growing casualty list. Second row […]

Gibbes given his marching orders after Tigers mauling

22 January 2023 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Christophe Urios will take charge at Top 14 side Clermont on Monday, after the “breathing space” afforded his predecessor Jono Gibbes […]

Pollard pleased to play his part

15 January 2023 0 comments

WORLD Cup-winning fly-half Handre Pollard was pleased to play his part with 14 points for Tigers. He said: “It’s always special coming to the Marcel-Michelin. […]

Sharks look for repeat performance over Toulouse

18 December 2022 0 comments

By JON NEWCOMBE Fully fit: Sale’s Akker van der Merwe in action Akker van der Merwe admits Sale Sharks will have to redouble their efforts […]

Pollard on hunt for game’s top trophies

4 December 2022 0 comments

By GARY FITZGERALD Handre Pollard plans to use his Tigers stripes to go club trophy hunting and also put him in perfect shape to help […]

My Life in Rugby with Nic Groom: ‘It was my warrior spirit that paid off with Rassie’

4 December 2022 0 comments

The former Western Province, Stormers, Northampton, Lions, Edinburgh and London Irish scrum-half talks Jon Newcombe through his journey in the game My last game was for […]

Why the South Seas need to feel the love

20 November 2022 0 comments

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST When Western Samoa surprised Wales by beating them in Cardiff during the pool stage of the 1991 World Cup – correction: […]

Bayonne turning home into a fortress

6 November 2022 1 comment

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN HEADING into the three-week international break, two Top 14 teams in particular will be pretty happy with their opening 10-game block. […]

Davidson’s departure puts Mela on the spot

23 October 2022 1 comment

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Of the three words in Arnauld Mela’s week-old job title ‘interim head coach’ at Top 14 side Brive, the first one […]

Verdict on corruption charges is awaited

25 September 2022 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Tuesday, December 13. That’s the date a Paris court delivers its verdicts on FFR President Bernard Laporte, vice president Serge Simon, […]

Jalibert in line to join Barrett at Racing 92

18 September 2022 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN France international fly-half Matthieu Jalibert’s unfortunately timed early-season travails continued on Saturday, amid renewed questions over his future at Bordeaux and […]

Racing 92 hit hard by Vakatawa retirement

11 September 2022 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN For Racing 92, this is the first weekend after the unexpected retirement before. A matter of days after the club’s French […]

Toulouse will take title, say coaches

4 September 2022 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Toulouse will win the Top 14 title at the end of another tight season – according to a survey of the […]

Globe-trotter Hanrahan out to put drive back into Dragons

4 September 2022 0 comments

Determined: JJ Hanrahan in action for Clermont last season There have been several false dawns at Rodney Parade over the past decade, but JJ Hanrahan […]

Concern as refs switch to other side

28 August 2022 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Another of French rugby’s leading gamekeepers turned coach this week, as Top 14 referee Maxime Chalon put down his whistle and […]

Transfer market that never sleeps

21 August 2022 1 comment

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Accepted wisdom has it that the shortest period of time is the New York Second – helpfully defined in the Urban […]

I’m confident I can get back to my best – Hewitt

14 August 2022 0 comments

By ROB COLE Ashton Hewitt can still recall the brace of tries he scored in his last outing for the Dragons – some achievement given […]

Fofana, one of the stars of 2006, to bow out

24 July 2022 1 comment

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Clermont star Wesley Fofana this week became the latest Top 14 player to join the annual line of those permanently signing […]

Aurillac shopped around for bargains

19 June 2022 0 comments

MUCH talk recently about salary cap-hampered English clubs being disadvantaged when they took on the big spenders of the Top 14 in Europe, in which […]

George Kruis to sign off with Barbarians outing against England at Twickenham

17 June 2022 0 comments

George Kruis is set to play his final game as a professional rugby player after being named in the Barbarians starting line-up for Sunday’s match […]

Baa-baas working to Galthie’s Grand Plan

12 June 2022 1 comment

By PETER JACKSON You’re in: Dylan Cretin has received a Baa-baas call THE Barbarians have chosen three more of France’s all-conquering squad as part of […]

France are the giants, Prem just sleeping

5 June 2022 1 comment

NICK CAIN THE English Premiership has just been described as a “sleeping giant” of sport by Simon Massie-Taylor, its chief executive. He got the ‘sleeping’ […]

No dead rubbers in final round of Top 14

5 June 2022 0 comments

JAMES HARRI NGTON FRENCH COLUMN Decider: Challenge Cup winners Lyon face Champions Cup winners La Rochelle PICTURE: Getty Images In less than three weeks, the […]

Dragons hunt for new head coach

22 May 2022 2 comments

By STEFFAN THOMAS THE DRAGONS are pondering a shake-up of their backroom team with a new head coach set to be appointed. TRP understands they […]

Racing 92 play down any move for Jones

22 May 2022 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON FRENCH COLUMN Try double: Matthieu Jalibert helped Bordeaux book their place in the play-offs England head coach Eddie Jones set the rugby rumour […]

Now’s the time for the French revolution

15 May 2022 0 comments

CHRIS HEWETT AS a rule of thumb, English teams good enough to fight their way into a Champions Cup final eventually go on to win […]

All to play for as it begins to get serious

1 May 2022 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTON Like any other league, the business end of the Top 14 season is played in a haze of permutations and possibilities on a […]

Jonathan Davies signs new contract at Scarlets

28 April 2022 0 comments

Scarlets captain Jonathan Davies has signed a new contract with the URC side. The Wales and British and Irish Lions centre has made 180 appearances […]

No respite as the race for play-offs ramps up

17 April 2022 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTONFRENCH COLUMN The rugby season in Europe’s top three leagues gets confused at this time of year, as we head into the business end […]

Chris Ashton set to start as Leicester Tigers make five changes for second leg against Clermont

15 April 2022 0 comments

Chris Ashton is set to start his first European game for Leicester Tigers as they look to defend a 19-point aggregate lead in the second […]

Leicester Tigers lose in the Challenge Cup final

Ellis Genge leads Leicester to historic first leg victory at Clermont

10 April 2022 0 comments

Leicester Tigers claimed a first leg away win at Clermont Auvergne to take a stride towards the Heineken Champions Cup quarter-finals. After an early Clermont […]

Genge fired up for next round of French hostilities

10 April 2022 0 comments

By JON NEWCOMBE PREVIEW…Clermont v LeicesterToday. Kick-off 3.15pm, Stade Marcel MichelinELLIS Genge can’t wait to sample the atmosphere inside the Stade Marcel Michelin as Leicester […]

Toulon fans in uproar at Carbonel departure

10 April 2022 0 comments

JAMES HARRINGTONFRENCH COLUMN Even by Toulon’s unusual standards, this season has been an extraordinary tale of failure and redemption. But, while confidence is mounting as […]

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