Stade Francais are out-spending Top 14 rivals in the transfer market First came multi-millionaire Mourad Boudjellal, then billionaires Mohed Altrad and Jacky Lorenzetti. Now, another mega-rich owner has turned Top…
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Chris Ashton Equals Top 14 Try-Scoring Record
Chris Ashton Equals Top 14 Try-Scoring Record Former England, Saracens and Northampton Saints winger Chris Ashton has been in scintillating try-scoring form for French outfit Toulon. And yesterday he ensured…
Heyneke Meyer Returns to Elite Coaching
Former Springboks coach Meyer will become head coach and director of sport at Stade Francais
WATCH: How About This For A Prop Try?
Watch this try scored by Bordeaux and Fiji prop Pend Ravai against Toulouse
Mid-Season Medical Jokers In The Top 14
As you would expect during the 2017-2018 rugby season, the sheer amount of injuries affecting every team is incredibly high. And the natural result of this is that these players…
Thomas Savare had Stade Francais’ best interests at heart
Yes, it was clumsily, even brutally, enacted but wasn’t the merger of Stade Francais and Racing 92 the best for both clubs in the long-term? Evidently not for the players…
Stade Francais and Racing 92: The merger explained
Imagine, if you will, that Racing 92 require maximum points in their final two league games of the season to qualify for next season’s Champions Cup. Their last match is…
Top 14: Why Racing’s season has gone from bad to worse
Two months ago this column wondered if Racing 92’s season could get any worse after Johan Goosen’s retirement, the corticosteroids saga and their humiliating exit from the Champions Cup. It…
Bordeaux hitting the buffers in Top 14
Why pressure is mounting on Bordeaux coach Raphael Ibanez
Six Nations: France still lacking “elan”
A penny for Philippe Saint-Andre’s thoughts as he watched France batter Scotland into submission at the Stade de France on Sunday. PSA was pilloried for much of his four-year reign…