The promoted side dominated the first half-hour at the Roazhon Park, with a try, two penalties and the first drop goal of the season, before Toulouse scored seventeen points in fourteen minutes. Vannes lost by six and remain the only club in the league without a single point in the table.
Racing 92 had not won since 13 June and had just conceded 183 points in three matches. Trailing 10-0 at half-time at Marcel-Deflandre, they scored twenty unanswered points after the break to win 20-10.
France women beat Australia 29-26 after losing two players to red cards in six minutes and conceding nineteen unanswered points. They played with eleven against fifteen for around ten minutes, and scored five tries.
Leaked on 13 September and picked over for four days, the list of thirty-three protected players was disowned on Thursday by the French Rugby Federation (FFR), which refuses to release the real names. That leaves the sixty-three internationals France actually used last season, listed here in full.
Brive at Aurillac and Oyonnax at Agen both won with a penalty in the 79th minute and remain unbeaten alongside Provence Rugby. Colomiers ran in ten tries against Dax after three defeats, while Nevers lost a fourth game by a combined margin of nine points.
The outline of the 2027-2028 season goes before the LNR's executive committee next week: eight consecutive rounds from 4 September to 23 October, then three more after a break. The number of loans stays at eight, the same for every club.
The France lock turned down a four-season offer from Paris worth around 50,000 euros net a month, with Toulouse closing the gap thanks to a tax advantage. His new deal runs until 2032, with the final season optional according to Rugbyrama and La Dépêche.
Maïlys Mailagi, Mouna Touré and Élodie Fernandez start on the bench on Saturday in Aix-en-Provence. There are five changes to the starting XV, three of them forced by players leaving for the France sevens squad.
On Thursday Montpellier agreed to make their defence coach available to France, but Midi Olympique reported straight afterwards that Christophe Laussucq had moved ahead. Under Geoffrey Doumayrou, MHR went from the ninth-best defence in the league to the best.
Brive won 29-28 at Aurillac thanks to a John Cooney penalty in the 79th minute and remain the only unbeaten club in Pro D2. The Irish scrum-half scored 19 of his side's 29 points, and 19 of his 29 points this season.
The Bayonne full-back has been banned for three weeks for his challenge on Théo Attissogbe, which left his side with fourteen men for seventy-six minutes. After two rounds, the Top 14 has already seen three red cards, as many as in the first six rounds of last season.
The LNR (French professional rugby league) has cut the time allowed to prepare a kick at goal from sixty to forty-five seconds. Thomas Ramos handed over the tee after three misses and has criticised the change. After two rounds, the league's success rate has dropped by two points, a gap that chance alone explains.
The Irish head coach has extended his contract by four seasons, which will take him to ten years in charge. Since 2021, La Rochelle have won 82% of their Top 14 matches at home and 31% away, and their European record has collapsed since the two titles.
Auch and Saint-Jean-de-Luz lead Pool 2 on eleven points, Annonay, Nantes and Drancy lead Pool 1 on ten. Thirty-three yellow cards and three red cards were shown over the round, or three sanctions per match.
The federation denies the lists of names published in the press, and admits that no club will be sanctioned if it does not rest an international after four matches. On the list published by Midi Olympique, thirteen of the thirty-three are Toulouse players, and their median age at the World Cup will be 31 years and 1 month.
Pau put 70 points on a Bayonne side reduced to fourteen men from the 4th minute, Toulouse ran up 36 against UBB before the break, and Racing 92 conceded another 48 points. The round produced 60 tries, eleven more than the first.
112 points conceded in two rounds, a record since the Top 14 was created in 2005. Racing travel to La Rochelle this Saturday, where they have won only once in their last eleven visits, then host Bayonne. Thirty-five clubs have lost their first three games since 2005, nineteen have lost their first four, and the play-off odds are not the same.
Beaten at the breakdown and hampered by handling errors, France lost 28-14 to New Zealand on Saturday at the Matmut Stadium. It was the first of the six matches on their tour.
Winners 23-16 over the Pumas in front of their own fans, Griquas claim a second consecutive Currie Cup. They had swept aside the Golden Lions 52-12 in the semi-final.
Oyonnax thrashed Aurillac 52-17 and have fourteen points after three rounds. Brive and Provence Rugby are also still unbeaten, while Colomiers are the only club yet to win.
