Brits abroad

[Danno]

The new Top14 season begins today and tomorrow:

Stade Français - 13 Joe Marchant, 21 Zach Henry
Montauban - 8 Karl Wilkins (ex Saints)

Perpignan - 3 Kieran Brookes, 5 Poso Tuilagi (Manu's giant nephew)
Bayonne - 4 Alex Moon, 12 Manu Tuilagi

Castres - no Will Collier for the moment
Pau - 9 Dan Robson, 10 Joe Simmonds

Lyon - 8 Sam Simmonds (début match), 21 Paddy Jackson
Racing - 4 Jonny Hill, 10 Sam James, 18 Will Rowlands

Montpellier - 9 Ali Price, 19 Billy Vunipola
Toulon - 5 Dave Ribbans, 7 Lewis Ludlam, 8 Zach Mercer (début match), (Italian centre Ignacio Brex makes his début)

UBB - 18 Jonny Grey
La Rochelle

Clermont play Toulouse on Sunday evening and neither Jack Willis nor Blair Kinghorn are available.

Edit! I missed Nathan Hughes at 8 for Racing.

It's ok, nobody cares

[Puja]

The new Top14 season begins today and tomorrow:

Stade Français - 13 Joe Marchant, 21 Zach Henry
Montauban - 8 Karl Wilkins (ex Saints)

Perpignan - 3 Kieran Brookes, 5 Poso Tuilagi (Manu's giant nephew)
Bayonne - 4 Alex Moon, 12 Manu Tuilagi

Castres - no Will Collier for the moment
Pau - 9 Dan Robson, 10 Joe Simmonds

Lyon - 8 Sam Simmonds (début match), 21 Paddy Jackson
Racing - 4 Jonny Hill, 10 Sam James, 18 Will Rowlands

Montpellier - 9 Ali Price, 19 Billy Vunipola
Toulon - 5 Dave Ribbans, 7 Lewis Ludlam, 8 Zach Mercer (début match), (Italian centre Ignacio Brex makes his début)

UBB - 18 Jonny Grey
La Rochelle

Clermont play Toulouse on Sunday evening and neither Jack Willis nor Blair Kinghorn are available.

Edit! I missed Nathan Hughes at 8 for Racing.

It's ok, nobody cares

I feel like you ought to clarify that with "about Nathan Hughes", rather than giving the implication that you're including all of francoisfou's endeavours in that!

Astounded that Racing are looking to move away from being fancy dan lightweight fripperies and have decided their best route to doing that is signing Nathan Hughes.

Puja

[FKAS]

Edit! I missed Nathan Hughes at 8 for Racing.

It's ok, nobody cares

I feel like you ought to clarify that with "about Nathan Hughes", rather than giving the implication that you're including all of francoisfou's endeavours in that!

Astounded that Racing are looking to move away from being fancy dan lightweight fripperies and have decided their best route to doing that is signing Nathan Hughes.

Puja

francoisfou does do great work on here.

It's all a bit odd at Racing, for a club what's thrown some money at big name flyhalfs like Russell, Farrell, iirc Carter they are now starting Sam James at 10.

[francoisfou]

The new Top14 season begins today and tomorrow:

Stade Français - 13 Joe Marchant, 21 Zach Henry
Montauban - 8 Karl Wilkins (ex Saints)

Perpignan - 3 Kieran Brookes, 5 Poso Tuilagi (Manu's giant nephew)
Bayonne - 4 Alex Moon, 12 Manu Tuilagi

Castres - no Will Collier for the moment
Pau - 9 Dan Robson, 10 Joe Simmonds

Lyon - 8 Sam Simmonds (début match), 21 Paddy Jackson
Racing - 4 Jonny Hill, 10 Sam James, 18 Will Rowlands

Montpellier - 9 Ali Price, 19 Billy Vunipola
Toulon - 5 Dave Ribbans, 7 Lewis Ludlam, 8 Zach Mercer (début match), (Italian centre Ignacio Brex makes his début)

UBB - 18 Jonny Grey
La Rochelle

Clermont play Toulouse on Sunday evening and neither Jack Willis nor Blair Kinghorn are available.

Edit! I missed Nathan Hughes at 8 for Racing.

It's ok, nobody cares

It seems that Nathan Hughes' team-mates don't care either, having been stuffed 32-7 away to Lyon (although Hughes did cross for his side's only try).

Elsewhere, Dave Ribbans and Zach Mercer were in impressive form for Toulon in their 27-17 away win in Montpellier, with Mercer scoring a try on his début.

Four penalties by Joe Simmonds helped Pau to a 17-15 win away to Castres.

[Danno]

Edit! I missed Nathan Hughes at 8 for Racing.

It's ok, nobody cares

I feel like you ought to clarify that with "about Nathan Hughes", rather than giving the implication that you're including all of francoisfou's endeavours in that!

Astounded that Racing are looking to move away from being fancy dan lightweight fripperies and have decided their best route to doing that is signing Nathan Hughes.

Puja

Oh gosh, I have posted my appreciation of ff's work in this thread before. No spite intended here!

[francoisfou]

It's ok, nobody cares

I feel like you ought to clarify that with "about Nathan Hughes", rather than giving the implication that you're including all of francoisfou's endeavours in that!

Astounded that Racing are looking to move away from being fancy dan lightweight fripperies and have decided their best route to doing that is signing Nathan Hughes.

Puja

Oh gosh, I have posted my appreciation of ff's work in this thread before. No spite intended here!

[francoisfou]

No news, yet, of Nathan Hughes' selection (just in case Danno is interested!)



Round 3 of ProD2 yesterday evening and this evening:

Agen - 9 Jack Maunder, 5 John Madigan
Grenoble

Provence - 6 Teimana Harrison, 3 Tomas Francis
Biarritz - 15 Zach Kibirige

Brive - 10 Jamie Shillcock, 5 Irné Herbst (first start for Brive), 22 Stuart Olding
Valence Romans - 14 Calum Randle (born in Cheltenham, brought up in France and played U16,18 & 20 for France)

Aurillac
Béziers - 3 Christian Judge

Nevers - 5 George Smith (ex Saints & Cov)
Carcassonne

Angoulême - Jonny May is not yet available, been injured is said to be back in training
Dax - 4 Charlie Matthews

Mont de Marsan
Vannes - 11 Ben Stevenson, 23 Nick Schonert

[francoisfou]

Top14 round 2 Brits:

Bayonne - 12 Manu Tuilagi, 4 Alex Moon, 18 Ewan Johnson
Montpellier - 18 Adam Beard, 20 Ali Price

Toulon - 7 Lewis Ludlam, 8 Zach Mercer, 5 Dave Ribbans
Castres - 23 Will Collier

Pau - 9 Dan Robson, 10 Joe Simmonds
SF

Montauban - 8 Karl Wilkins
Lyon - 8 Sam Simmonds, 21 Paddy Jackson

Toulouse - 19 Jack Willis, 22 Blair Kinghorn
Perpignan - 3 Kieran Brookes

Racing v UBB is on Sunday evening and teams not yet announced