Ronan O'Gara had handed 18-year-old Valentin Bouju a start in his first professional match, with seven forwards on the bench. La Rochelle led by a point from the 52nd minute and did not concede again.
Without their usual ground, Racing 92 have confirmed that their Round 7 home game will be moved to Le Mans on Saturday 24 October. The club are waiting to return to Colombes.
France open the Women's XV Global Series on Saturday in Lyon against New Zealand. Lili Dezou and Julia Grosz will win their first caps, while Aubane Rousset and Rose Bernadou are ruled out.
Alexandre Bécognée, who was out of contract at the end of the season, has agreed a three-season extension with MHR. The announcement came on the day the club lost Mohamed Haouas and Jordan Uelese for several months.
Five of the seven Round 4 games were played on Friday night. Carcassonne keep a perfect record with 22 points out of 22, and Chambéry crushed Suresnes 49-7. Massy v Orléans and Périgueux v Bourgoin are played this afternoon.
The Paris club have announced they will move a Top 14 match to the Stade de France before the end of the year. Neither the date nor the opponent has been announced.
The Stade Rochelais hooker has been handed a four-week ban after his red card against Toulouse on Sunday for a dangerous clear-out on Matthis Lebel. He will miss the Toulon fixture and the three rounds after it.
Paolo Parpagiola's yellow card in the 19th minute cost Colomiers 19 points. Biarritz led 26-6 on the half-hour and were never troubled after that, earning their second try bonus point in three rounds.
Albi won 38-22 with a try bonus point against Rennes. The Brittany side, who had lost their tighthead props to injury, finished the match a man down under the front-row shortage rule.
Mohamed Haouas has had surgery and will miss three months. Jordan Uelese is out for several months. Reda Wardi and Sébastien Bézy are still recovering.
World Rugby has inducted the former France captain and the Italian fly-half among the new members of its Hall of Fame. Both men left their mark on European rugby in the 1990s and 2000s.
The Cóndores have claimed the continental title. The Chilean national team continues the rise that began with their qualification for the 2023 World Cup.
The Aviron Bayonnais back row told Laurent Travers on Wednesday morning that he had chosen to join Stade Toulousain. He will sign for three seasons from the summer of 2027.
Marko Gazzotti and Pierre Bochaton have agreed to extend their contracts with Union Bordeaux-Bègles until June 2029. Both internationals were due to come out of contract in 2027.
The Georgian prop has been handed a three-week ban for his orange card, and the back-row forward injured his hand in the same game. Five other players are still receiving treatment.
The 24-year-old flanker has been released from the final year of his contract and joins Perpignan for two seasons. He arrived in Toulon in 2017, aged fifteen.
After beating the Lions 52-12 in the semi-final, the Griquas will host the Pumas in Kimberley on Saturday, after the Pumas saw off the Cheetahs 27-24 in Bloemfontein.
The first two rounds of Pro D2 produced 37 yellow cards and 4 reds in sixteen matches. It is the most heavily penalised start of the last four seasons, but the gap with last year comes down to three cards.
Ramos to Racing and Cros to LOU take away 14.4% of Toulouse's points from last season, 18.1% if Meafou, Jelonch and Ainu'u follow. On the other side, the club's under-23s have already played 6,105 Top 14 minutes, 2,944 of them in the positions affected.
