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Montpellier and Racing 92 lead the way in the Top14
By Ben Spratt
Montpellier maintained their perfect start to the Top 14 season on Sunday, while Racing 92 moved to second in the table.
Early league leaders Montpellier were winners for the fourth game running as they saw off Toulon 43-20 at Alstrad Stadium – giving them a five-point cushion at the summit.
Aaron Cruden, Nemani Nadolo, Paul Willemse, Joseph Tomane and Francois Steyn scored the home side, who also benefited from a 65th-minute penalty try.
Toulon had led after seven minutes when Josua Tuisova went over, but only a second-half Chris Ashton try followed for the visitors after Francois Trinh-Duc's 47th minute penalty.
Earlier in the day, Racing had beaten Oyonnax 25-13 in Colombes.
Leone Nakarawa, Virimi Vakatawa and Marc Andreu all touched down before half-time, with penalties from Dan Carter and Maxime Machenaud completing their win.
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Nah, that just needs some more variation. Chip kicks, grubber stabs, all those. Will Jordan showed a pretty good reason why the rush was bad for his link up with BB.
If you have an overlap on a rush defense, they naturally cover out and out and leave a huge gap near the ruck.
It also helps if both teams play the same rules. ARs set the offside line 1m past where the last mans feet were😅
Go to commentsYeah nar, should work for sure. I was just asking why would you do it that way?
It could be achieved by outsourcing all your IP and players to New Zealand, Japan, and America, with a big Super competition between those countries raking it in with all of Australia's best talent to help them at a club level. When there is enough of a following and players coming through internally, and from other international countries (starting out like Australia/without a pro scene), for these high profile clubs to compete without a heavy australian base, then RA could use all the money they'd saved over the decades to turn things around at home and fund 4 super sides of their own that would be good enough to compete.
That sounds like a great model to reset the game in Aus. Take a couple of decades to invest in youth and community networks before trying to become professional again. I just suggest most aussies would be a bit more optimistic they can make it work without the two decades without any pro club rugby bit.
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