🇫🇷 Review Plenty of positives for France from Thursday night, we (kind of) whittled it down to the three big successes in our article for All Things Rugby! Check it out and let us know your thoughts👇 allthingsrugby.com/news/powerfu...

Think Dupont was a 7/10. Some of his kicking was excellent, and his organisation around the fringes was good, but without going full Dupont freak-show. It worked well with Jalibert & Ramos, but you can see why Tony D and MJ perhaps prefer their half back partners. Tony D takes control A LOT.

THE RAMOS VOLLEY!!! 👟

Guillard has been unreal. Serious player.

Mickael Guillard is busy having a fantastic game. Top carrier, top for ruck turnovers and top for France for tackles. Having him as a loose forward lock adds so much dynamism for Les Bleus.

Rosbifs Rugby Six Nations Bingo is back! Forget the sights, sounds, and the players. Most importantly of all, it’s the clichés that make the 6N so special! 👇Ready to tick off over the next 6 weeks First up Ireland: all eyes & ears ready for ROG and that fateful drop goal...

The SIX NATIONS is HERE! 🎇 Who is ready to get their teeth stuck in to the action this evening? This man certainly is 👇

Jealous doesn’t even come close to describing our feelings about this…

🇫🇷 Four Key Focus Areas Our article for All Things Rugby sets FOUR areas where this game will be won for France: 🚪La Charnière (literally ‘the hinge’) 🦖Front row 🧂Théo Attissogbe 💥 High Impact Bench Confused? Intrigued? Read on 👇 allthingsrugby.com/news/experie...

🇫🇷 Stats that don’t seem believable: Dorian Aldegheri has the same number of international caps (22) as Louis Bielle-Biarrey 🤯 Aldegheri is 10 years older than LBB. Louis Bielle-Biarrey has more tries (20)…

🚨New Pod!🚨 Previewing the big Thursday night fixture and The Six Nations as France aim for back to back championships. Plus: - Top14 Round Up - Eastern European Connections - Spy School What better time to listen to the premier(ish) 🇫🇷 rugby pod? linktr.ee/rosbifsrugby

🇫🇷 FRANCE TEAM NEWS Largely as expected once the 28-man retained list was announced. • Intriguing lock combination • Dorian The Toy T-Rex gets the nod at Tighthead • Tried & Trusted in the back row • The Era of Attissogbe is HERE! • Nouchi on the bench 🤤 France by 10+ #SixNations #FRAvIRE

🔔 Ring the Cliché Bell! Six Nations Week 1 has barely even begun and already we’ve got James Ryan pulling out a classic cliché. Just in case you didn’t know, if France get a good start, the crowd get behind them… Ireland would be wise to start fast and try and silence the crowd 🙄

An 80m highlight reel try from Jiuta Wainiqolo…? Surely not!?! 👀

We’re split on Paul Graou, but from the one of us that rates him, I feel like there must be something I’m not seeing that others are. He was the standout player by some way in what was a game lacking quality. Barassi looked very good off the bench - was Galthié watching? 🇫🇷

We love ROG. But at what point is enough is enough?

🔮Top 14 Round 16 First of the ‘doublons’ of this year’s 6 Nations period, 28 names retained by 🇫🇷 Best time for Montauban to get UBB at home then? Still can’t see an upset happening… Big one Sunday evening. Both teams impacted by 🇫🇷 call ups, but Toulon away have been poor this season. #Top14

Pro D2 Round 19 🔮 Some split decisions with a few form sides on the road this week! Oyonnax v Vannes a barrage belter to kick us off, and a huge fixture near the bottom with Beziers v Dax tomorrow. Big games for Mont de Marsan and Carcassonne as they host Provence and Brive! #ProD2

A perfect summation (as ever) from James

It is not too much of an overstatement to say that without Auradou, Pau would not be 2nd in the league. We called this out in our article for All Things Rugby last week: allthingsrugby.com/news/evoluti...

And yet Rich still doesn’t rate Paul Graou… 🤦🏼‍♂️

I wonder if he’s been talking to his team mate Régis Montagne? ‘The Panda’ apparently has a very strong interest in cryptocurrency investing… 🐼

Gourgues, Brau-Boirie and Nouchi all retained 🇫🇷

Pretty big news for Nevers this. Generally they are a bit of a ‘feeder club’ and they have brought through many a previously-unearthed gem. Perry Mayo has torn up Pro D2 this season - locking him in until 2029 seems like some decent business!

Hearing from La Rochelle it was pretty serious The word "lucky" was used by a source at the club #Top14

Thoughts with Big Uini. Glad to hear he's stable. An absolute legend of La Rochelle and France. Fitting that he captained his final La Rochelle game - one that we now feel even more privileged to have attended 🙏

🚨New Pod!🚨 The Six Nations Squad announcement only scratched the surface of a hectic week over the channel! - Stunning Away Wins - Fijian Majesty in the Top 14 - Nillings, Draws and Coaching Strife. + is petanque or real tennis more lucrative? 🎧👇 linktr.ee/rosbifsrugby

This is an absolutely mad set of results in Nationale 👇 • League leaders Albi nilled at Chambery • Nice’s team of all stars downed by Massy in Paris • 3rd place Narbonne also lose at Rouen • 5th place Perigueux lose at struggling Bourgoin

Toulouse are unstoppable at home - this shows no one is safe! In Toulouse’s 8 home games in the Top 14 this season: • 7 bonus point wins • 7 games won by 15 points or more • smallest margin of victory = 12 points • Averaging 50 points per game • Avg 7.25 tries per game • only concede avg 17pts

HT Toulouse 40 - 15 Pau Yes, that is the HALF TIME score. Gourgues looking sensational at 13 for Toulouse. Could this get ugly? Or will we see a fightback from Pau?

🛡️TOULOUSE v PAU🗻 Absolutely buzzing for this, going to be huge. Top of the table clash. Two absolutely fizzing back lines 🔥🔥🔥 Lessssgooooo #Top14 #STSP 📷Teams and our thoughts from our All Things Rugby article 👇

Another week, another incredible Castres away win They end Bayonne's unbeaten home run in the #Top14, which stretched back to June 2024 Last time CO won two games on the bounce on the road was 12 months ago

Miserable result for Montauban. About as bad as it could have gone for them today. USAP outscoring them 4 tries to 1, securing a bonus point. 7 points doesn’t sound much with 11 rounds left, but it’s loads for USM. The gulf in class is proving too much to bridge.

CASTRES HAVE DONE IT! 💙🤍 Again!! Nearly 20 months and over 20 games ago, Castres were the last team to beat Bayonne at the Stade Jean Dauger in the Top 14. And they’ve done it again. Two fortresses toppled in two weeks for CO!

OWN TRY OF THE SEASON!! Got a real contender here from Peni Dakuwaqa…offload off the deck, 2m out from his own line. Léo Barré (Beurre fingers Barré 🧈) fumbles it and Poirot dots it down for 🍇 #Top14 #UBBSFP

🔮TOP 14 | Round 15 Surely THE most fascinating round of the Top 14 this season? Ever?! Every side playing the side next to them in the league. All eyes then the games in Perpignan and Toulouse 👀 🗞️Team News: allthingsrugby.com/news/top-14-... 📽️Preview: youtube.com/shorts/2mYyk...

📋 TOP 14 | TEAM NEWS Want everything you need to know about all the team selections for Round 15 of the Top 14 all in one place? Check out the article 👇 allthingsrugby.com/news/top-14-...

😮OH WOW! Aaron Smith to Pau 🫠 Lord, take me now 🙏

🤯 How often does this happen!?! As we noticed on this week’s podcast (link in bio…), the fixtures for the Top 14 this weekend are fairly unique! What are the chances? Well, less than 0.02% according to the official Top 14 page.

I mean, he was being an absolute pest for the entirety of the game after Hastoy’s red card in the first minute. It was amazing he lasted over 50 minutes before receiving a red card of his own.

Just in case that Nice Rugby side couldn’t get enough players who should be playing higher than France’s third tier…

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🔮Pro D2 | Round 18 Thank god it’s back on a Thursday evening - doesn’t feel right without out. First game should be a cracker over on @cocker FRUK YouTube channel. Elsewhere, mix of nailed on home wins and potential nail biters. Can Vannes kill off Grenoble for this season?

Have seen the word Titi at Stade Francais a number of times but have never tried to work out what it actually meant for fear of what might come up on Google search…

Huge resepect to Thibaud Flament for this He'll miss #FRAvIRE to be alongside his wife during an assisted human reproduction process as they try for a child #SixNations www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/Articl...

🇫🇷FRANCE SQUAD Wow, plenty to unpack here - and not just the trailed exclusions of Alldritt, Fickou & Penaud. Hints of changing of the guard, with plenty of young talent included. Biggest surprise: Tom Staniforth🇦🇺 But only cos of nationality - he’s a destroyer in Top 14

🚨New Pod!🚨 Awesome to be joined this week by Section Paloise and England scrumhalf Dan Robson, ahead of Pau's top of the table trip to Toulouse this weekend! + we have trips to La Rochelle, Champions Cup wind up and some flying lessons... 🎧👇 linktr.ee/rosbifsrugby

This one should be the least surprising of the lot. Alldritt has been trading off credit in the bank far longer than Fickou and Penaud.

HUGE news!

Absolutely HUGE news if Galthié leaves out both Penaud and Fickou. These French newspapers normally get these sorts of things right. Has Galthié finally started to move on from some of his stalwarts?