Nadolo scores hat-trick as Montpellier thrash Brive
Nemani Nadolo scored a hat-trick as Top 14 leaders Montpellier hammered Brive 54-10 and Castres ended a three-match losing streak by beating Clermont Auvergne on Sunday.
Montpellier had their perfect start to the season emphatically brought to an end by Bordeaux-Begles last weekend, but Vern Cotter's men put that behind them by dishing out an eight-try thrashing at Altrad Stadium.
Nadolo was Brive's chief tormentor, the big Fijian wing taking a pass from Aaron Cruden to score his first try and intercepting to race away for a second before the break.
Montpellier were out of sight at 33-3 to the good at the interval, Jesse Mogg also going over and Bismarck Du Plessis helping himself to a brace of five-pointers.
The home side were awarded a penalty try following the restart and Fulgence Ouedraogo also scored begore Nadolo completed his treble four minutes from time in a one-sided encounter that put Montpellier two points clear of Lyon.
Castres stopped the rot with a 29-23 defeat of Clermont at Stade Pierre-Fabre.
Benjamin Urdapilleta scored 19 points from the tee and there were tries for Jody Jenneker and Maama Vaipulu in Clermont's third loss of the season.
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The first half penalties against NZ were for speculative tackling because England were attacking so flat. If NZ didn't do this then it may have been tries and not penalties conceded earlier. I believe Felix Jones is still helping with the transition online. It was quite clear he wasn't helping in person with Earls in particular shooting up and leaving huge holes. NZ had a few that nearly stuck but the two tries by Telea were defensive errors. Furbank biting on Sititi leaving Genge to mark. Genge wont show Telea the outside again. Poor tacking on Telea for the second. That said he is a hard man to grab hold of.
Isolating Genge was clever for Jordans try. NZ spotted he defended wide too often and they could leave a gap with that switch play. 6 day turnaround for Ireland now.
I imagine NZ will be better, but they will need to be a lot better.
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