Top 14 Rugby News

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  • Monday, 28. November, 2011

    Quesada gets Racing job

    Former Argentinian flyhalf Gonzalo Quesada was on Monday confirmed as the new backs coach of Racing-Metro, switching from his current position as the kicking coach of the French national side.

  • Sunday, 27. November, 2011

    Quesada Racing to be a coach

    Former Argentinian flyhalf Gonzalo Quesada is set to move from being the French national side's kicking coach to become backs coach of Racing-Metro, according to L'Equipe on Sunday.

  • Saturday, 26. November, 2011

    Lamont cleared to leave Toulon

    The Scottish international Sean Lamont has been freed from the last year of his contract with Toulon to play elsewhere.

  • Wednesday, 23. November, 2011

    Martin sues Toulon president

    Montpellier flank Remy Martin is suing Toulon president Mourad Boudjellal for defamation in the wake of a post-match assault by Toulon forward Olivier Missoup.

  • Monday, 21. November, 2011

    Sivivatu arrives - at last

    Sitiveni Sivivatu, the powerful All Black wing, has arrived at last at his French club Clermont Auvergne.

  • Monday, 21. November, 2011

    Perpignan fire coach

    After seven defeats in 12 matches this season, five in their last seven matches, Perpignan have fired their new coach/manager Jacques Delmas with immediate effect. They are not importing a new coach but have elevated assistant coaches Bernard Goutta and Christophe Manas to coach the side with equal powers.

  • Saturday, 19. November, 2011

    Trinh-Duc staying with Montpellier

    France flyhalf Francois Trinh-Duc pledged himself to last season's Top 14 finalists Montpellier till 2014 on Saturday.

  • Saturday, 19. November, 2011

    Stade Francais hammer Bucharest

    Stade Francais cruised to a comfortable 49-3 home victory over Romanian side Bucharest Wolves to record their second victory in the Amlin Challenge Cup.

  • Friday, 18. November, 2011

    Bath time for Montpellier

    Bath will be determined to get their Heineken Cup campaign back on track after their last ditch defeat to Glasgow in their Pool 3 opener in north of the border last weekend.

  • Friday, 18. November, 2011

    Connacht ton up against Toulouse

    Heineken Cup new boys, Connacht, will host French aristocrats and the tournament's most successful side, Toulouse, when they play for the first time on home soil.

  • Friday, 18. November, 2011

    De Bruyn off to help Lyon

    Tewis de Bruyn, the Free State Cheetahs' halfback, arrived in Lyon on Thursday as a medical joker to cover for injured scrumhalf Brice Salobert.

  • Thursday, 17. November, 2011

    Biarritz fans their 16th man

    Charlie Hodgson knows all about playing in front of the baying Basque hordes in Biarritz and is hoping it will be third time lucky when he returns to the south of France with reigning English champions Saracens in Pool 5 this weekend.

  • Wednesday, 16. November, 2011

    Clermont's Canadian banned

    Clermont lock Jamie Cudmore has been banned for 20 days for punching during a Top 14 match against Stade Francais.

  • Tuesday, 15. November, 2011

    Sharks prop heads to Biarritz

    Sharks prop Eugene van Staden has returned to the French club scene for a second spell on Tuesday, when Top 14 tailenders Biarritz signed him as a replacement for the retired fellow South African Eduard Coetzee.

  • Tuesday, 15. November, 2011

    Former Sharks prop forced to retire

    Biarritz veteran prop Eduard Coetzee announced he was retiring after being told by doctors that he had taken too many blows to the head.