France Top 14 2013/14 season Round Eleven. Due to a system error we omitted to report on last weeks games. But here are week eleven and our feedback. Two games on Friday night with first Toulon having a convincing win over Bordeaux 37-17. It was all square at the break 12-12. Toulon did not get the try bonus point, however Jonny Wilkinson kicked the points before travelling … [Read more...]
Top 14 France Rd10-Toulon Let A Dozen Go
France Top 14 2013/14 season Round Ten. So we are back following two weeks of European Rugby and we have a few mixed results and full on games. Having said that we got two calls wrong with Perpignan going down at Bayonne and Toulon at Toulouse. The full round-up of the weekend started with the Bayonne v Montpellier game which they won 24-19. Having been as close at 18-13 at … [Read more...]
Top 14 France Rd9- Capital Crash As Metro & Paris Go Down
France Top 14 2013/14 season Round Nine and a couple of unexpected results. Grenoble beating Racing Metro and in Paris as well. Stade Francais Paris being away was no surprise though So how did the weekend pan out? First we had Biarritz hosting Perpignan on Friday night and suffering their ninth loss, it was a tight affair which Perpignan won 12-16. Coming from 6-6 … [Read more...]
Top 14 France Rd8- Oyonnax Continue To Surprise
France Top 14 2013/14 season Round Eight and the surprises continue to come, not least Oyonnax who this time out did for Toulon. Friday night and Montpellier who were on a high travelled to Paris with big expectations. Stade Français Paris however, had other thoughts and it was the home side who came out on top 18-11. Paris led 10-3 at half-time and the scoring was … [Read more...]
Top 14 France Rd7- Clermont Fail On Road Again
France Top 14 2013/14 season Round Seven brought us a couple of extremes as Clermont got thrashed 43-3 by Montpellier and Paris won at Oyonnax 15-16, taking their home record on route. So if we look at the complete set of results we had three wrong calls. Starting with Clermont on Friday night. This was a battle of the boot and Montpellier won it eight one. Montpellier were … [Read more...]