Brits abroad

[astralweeks]

Yes, difficult to be enthusiastic, innit, except maybe for a few diehard Sarries' fans.

Sarries have fans?

Convex hull

[francoisfou]

Saturday evening's playoff teams:

Toulon - 6 Lewis Ludlam, 5 Dave Ribbans, 3 Kyle Sinckler, 21 Ben White
Castres - 3 Will Collier


Saturday afternoon's Top14/ProD2 do or die game:

Grenoble - 10 Sam Davies
Perpignan - 3 Kieran Brookes

[francoisfou]

The Top14 semi-final weekend kicks off tomorrow (Friday) evening with Toulouse v Bayonne in Lyon.

For Toulouse, Blair Kinghorn returns fron injury and will wear 11 and Jack Willis at 7.
For Bayonne, sadly no Tuilagi who's not recovered from a rib injury, but Alex Moon, who's now established himself in the starting XV wears 5.

Toulon v UBB will be on Saturday evening, also in Lyon.

[francoisfou]

Toulon v UBB

Toulon - 3 Kyle Sinckler, 5 Dave Ribbans (c), 6 Lewis Ludlam, 21 Ben White
UBB - Jonny Gray on the bench

Yesterday evening, Toulouse had a hard time getting the better of Bayonne, eventually winning 32-25.They're evidently missing Antoine Dupont but their discipline isn't nearly good enough and the Bayonne fly half, Joris Segonds, kicked 6/6 penalties and a conversion too.
Another hard time awaits Toulouse next Saturday evening at the Stade de France.

[francoisfou]

Dave Ribbans, Will Collier and Joe Marchant are France-based Brits invited into the Barbarians’ squad to play South Africa in Cape Town next Saturday the 28th.

[francoisfou]

The Grand Final of the Top14 takes place this evening at the S de F, between Toulouse and UBB.
Blair Kinghorn and Jack Willis start for Toulouse and Jonny Gray’s on the bench for UBB.
It’s the same final as last year when Toulouse ran away with the game 55-3. Can’t see a similar result this evening, particularly as Saint Antoine will be absent.