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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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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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