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Toulouse break their own Top 14 record
By Liam Blackburn
Leaders Toulouse broke a Top 14 record as they stretched their unbeaten run to 12 games with a 28-9 win over Stade Francais in Paris.
Having seen Clermont Auvergne reduce their lead at the summit to a point following their 52-17 victory against Grenoble on Saturday, a Toulouse side depleted by international call-ups responded by restoring their six-point cushion with a four-try triumph over the capital club.
Gillian Galan and Lucas Tauzin went over in the first half to give the leaders a 12-9 advantage, with all of Stade Francais' points coming from Nicolas Sanchez penalties.
Two Zack Holmes penalties enhanced Toulouse's advantage and Piula Faasalele and Matthis Lebel crossed in the closing 10 minutes as Ugo Mola's side extended an undefeated Top 14 run that dates back to a September loss to Castres.
Bottom club Perpignan suffered their 17th loss out of 18 games as Toulon fought back from an early deficit to triumph 24-11.
Enzo Selponi's penalty and Jonathan Bousquet's try put Perpignan in charge only on, yet the visitors rallied through scores from Liam Messam and Josua Tuisova, with Bruce Devaux also crossing 14 minutes from time to seal a first away win of the campaign for Toulon.
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LOL thats the same mentality the French saying about the Top 14. Why change their ridiculous comp if its performing well with investors?
There is always better JWH.
It depends really what you want out of Super Rugby and NPC. Currently Super Rugby fills both niche’s, it has the up and commers as well as the stars performing at the top. Reducing further obviously improves further on what has been the reason everybody is enjoying this season.
There is definitely a question of balance and what going further that way removes. But theres a few reasons. What coaches are telling us is it is also a struggle to find the talent to fill out a strong SR side. There is talk of increasing financial constraints. Currently there is a lopsided (random) amount of derby home and away match ups in each conference, so going 5v5 instead of 6v6 may mean we have a full derby round for each conference (currently I think they play just 3 teams twice), or even squeeze in a full dbl round comp. Going a larger number of teams means they need to go much larger to fairer league setup.
But they need to add or remove JWH, one or the other, and I was merely pointing out that adding, like you’re suggestion, is likely going to introduce just what we all (or at least what the person I was replying to was saying) think the comp has been remedied of, having a weak team. The 5v5 I referenced was 3 Aus teams, with the other two filling the landscape their, and 5 here. That’s what NZR wanted to kick off for the COVID year but ARU threw a hissy fit. If going to 10 is the right thing to do maybe it’s an NZ team that needs to be dropped, so Moana would remain here and Drua continue to be with the aussies, thats the other possible 5 v 5 setup (which would just be 10 if they found a way for all to play even games).
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