Topic: Toulouse
European champions Toulouse defeated Stade Francais 34-16 on Saturday thanks to a breathtaking second-half performance in a bruising French Top 14 clash that saw five players yellow-carded. Stade, who went into the game with two wins from two matches, were 16-11 ahead ...
European champions Toulouse slid to their first defeat of the French domestic season on Saturday, going down 22-16 at Castres to leave Stade Francais and Bayonne as the only sides boasting 100 percent records after two matches. Toulouse had seen off Agen ...
Perpignan beat champions Clermont 21-13 on Friday to avenge their defeat in May's French Top 14 final, but big-spending Toulon slumped to an embarrassing opening defeat to unheralded Bayonne. Perpignan, who won 13 times at home last season, earned all of their ...
European champions Toulouse ran in six tries while Stade Francais racked up five in French Top 14 romps on Friday, but big-spending Toulon slumped to an embarrassing home defeat to little Bayonne. Toulouse enjoyed a 44-24 cruise over promoted Agen as the ...
European champions Toulouse ran in six tries in a 44-24 romp over promoted Agen as the new French Top 14 championship got off to an entertaining start on Friday. Even without influential former All Black scrum-half Byron Kelleher, who is recovering from ...
France coach Marc Lievremont has made seven changes to the French team that will face Argentina in Buenos Aires on Saturday. Bayonne centre Lionel Mazars makes his international debut while Perpignan full-back Jerome Porical starts a Test for the first time. In ...
Toulouse halfback Jean-Baptiste Elissalde ended his stellar playing career in suitable fashion on Friday by landing a penalty in the Barbarians thrilling 29-23 victory over an under-strength Ireland in Limerick. The 32-year-old scrum-half cum fly-half told Saturday's edition of L'Equipe that he ...
Many doubted Byron Kelleher's signing for Toulouse after the 2007 World Cup, but the former All Black scrum-half has endeared himself to one of the most demanding rugby audiences. At 34 years old, he seems to have lost little of his sniping ...
David Skrela orchestrated an unprecedented fourth European Cup title for Toulouse after overseeing his club's 21-19 victory over Biarritz at the Stade de France here on Saturday. The outside-half, often the target for much criticism in the French press, booted three penalties ...
France coach Marc Lievremont on Wednesday called up uncapped Perpignan full-back Jerome Porical for a 30-man squad to tour South Africa and Argentina in June. Porical, 24, and 21-year-old Biarritz flanker Wenceslas Lauret are the sole debutants in a squad that will ...
