Topic: Morgan Parra
Defending champions Leinster ran in seven tries in a 52-27 demolition of Bath in Dublin on Saturday to go six points clear at the top of Pool Three and move closer to a European Cup quarter-final spot.A week after beating the English ...
Leicester relaunched their bid for a place in the quarter-finals of the European Cup with a gritty 23-19 win over French heavyweights Clermont on Saturday.Leicester, the 2001 and 2002 champions, suffered their first defeat in Pool Four last week when they succumbed ...
France will bid to put rumours of internal strife to bed in bagging the one point from their final pool match against Tonga on Saturday that will see them progress to the quarter-finals.The French grabbed a maximum 10 points from their openers ...
The scheduling row that has soured the World Cup took on a new dimension with a Samoan player accusing the International Rugby Board of exploitation akin to "slavery" and "apartheid".Eliota Sapolu Fuimaono, a centre who plays his club rugby for Gloucester in ...
France coach Marc Lievremont sprung a surprise on Tuesday when he named scrum-half Morgan Parra to play at fly-half for the World Cup Pool A match against New Zealand here on Saturday.Parra takes over from Montpellier's Francois Trinh-Duc who played at No.10 ...
Two tries by former France captain Lionel Nallet inspired the French to a 28-9 victory over Wales in their final Six Nations match here at the Stade de France on Saturday.The win will have gone some way to repairing the damage done ...
The French players intend to bow out of this year's Six Nations with a performance against Wales on Saturday that restores some of their battered pride, says scrum-half Morgan Parra.Parra said last year's Grand Slam champions had only themselves to blame for ...
France retained their hopes of defending their Six Nations Grand Slam title here on Sunday at Lansdowne Road as they beat an unlucky Irish side 25-22 in a thrilling no-holds barred contest.The Irish will curse themselves for their ill-disciplne as the visitors ...
Champions Clermont gave notice on Wednesday that they will not surrender the title they fought for so many years to get lightly as they routed bitter rivals Racing-Metro 31-15 in the Top 14 clash to move second ahead of Thursday's other matches.Clermont ...
Inspired by the boot of Morgan Parra, France took revenge for a 41-13 Buenos Aires summer thrashing by edging out Argentina 15-9 in Saturday's one-off autumn Test at the Stade de la Mosson in MontpellierFrance had been steamrollered in South America last ...