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Weekend rugby review: Further trouble for Newcastle and London Welsh as Bath impress with huge win

What is in a pitch? Quite a lot according to Northampton director of rugby, Jim Mallinder, who was asked for his view of Newcastle’s new 3G artificial-surface. “It’s great, it has made a...

Best of the weekend: Bath batter Tigers, Connacht shock Leinster

Bath Batter the TigersThere appears to be a new trend going around in the Premiership, one which sees supposed title contenders receive absolutely monumental spankings from their supposed rivals. It...

VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS: Brive v Toulon

Clermont storm to the top with demolition of Lyon

Clermont returned to the head of the Top 14 with a bonus-point 43-12 demolition of Lyon after a first half which had been very even. With a 16-12 lead at the break, Clermont scored 27 unanswered points...

Toulouse in crisis after fourth defeat

Ailing four-time European champions Toulouse slipped to their fourth successive Top 14 defeat on Saturday losing 27-16 at Racing-Metro despite Vincent Clerc scoring the 86th try of his career. Clerc's...

Brive indiscipline borders on insane

The Top 14 is only six weeks young, yet Brive have picked up nearly as many cards as Racing M�tro did in the whole of last season. Brive now occupy 13th spot with two wins - surprisingly Castres (last...

Halfpenny's Toulon future 'resolved'

Leigh Halfpenny's future at Toulon appears to have been resolved following a meeting between the Wales full-back's representative and club officials. The 25-year-old has not played since surgery...

Wulf-fired Toulon thrash Brive

Toulon put their kicking concerns to one side and maximised on a red card to surge to provisional number one spot in the Top 14 with a convincing, bonus-point 53-13 victory over Brive. Bernard Laporte's...

Toulon hammer 14-man Brive

Top 14 champions Toulon crushed Brive 53-13, running in eight tries after Peet Marais' red card in the first half.

Weekend Preview

With the Rugby Championship taking a break this week, we cast our attention to Europe and preview the biggest matches from the Top 14, Pro 12 and Aviva Premiership. Pro 12 We begin our weekend...