Toulouse vs Quins and Saints vs Castres

Stade Toulousain: 15 Maxime Medard, 14 Vincent Clerc, 13 Yann David, 12 Yannick Jauzion, 11 Timoci Matanavou, 10 Luke McAlister, 9 Jean-Marc Doussain, 8 Shaun Sowerby, 7 Thierry Dusautoir, 6 Jean Bouilhou, 5 Romain Millo-Chluski, 4 Yoann Maestri, 3 Census Johnston, 2 William Servat, 1 Yohan Montes.
Replacements: 16 Gary Botha, 17 Jean-Baptiste Poux, 18 Daan Human, 19 Grégory Lamboley, 20 Yannick Nyanga, 21 Louis Picamoles, 22 Luke Burgees, 23 Florian Fritz.

Harlequins:15 Mike Brown, 14 Seb Stegmann, 13 Matt Hopper, 12 Tom Casson, 11 Ugo Monye, 10 Nick Evans, 9 Danny Care, 8 Nick Easter, 7 Will Skinner, 6 Chris Robshaw (c), 5 George Robson, 4 Tomas Vallejos, 3 James Johnston, 2 Joe Gray, 1 Mark Lambert.
Replacements: 16 Chris Brooker, 17 Nic Mayhew, 18 Kyle Sinckler, 19 Charlie Matthews, 20 Luke Wallace, 21 Richard Bolt, 22 Ben Urdapilleta, 23 Tom Williams

Referee: Alain Rolland

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Northampton Saints: 15 Ben Foden, 14 Vas Artemyev, 13 Jon Clarke, 12 James Downey, 11 Jamie Elliott, 10 Steve Myler, 9 Martin Roberts, 8 Samu Manoa, 7 Ben Nutley, 6 Tom Wood, 5 Mark Sorenson, 4 Courtney Lawes, 3 Paul Doran-Jones, 2 Dylan Hartley, 1 Alex Waller.
Replacements: 16 Mikey Haywood, 17 Soane Tonga'uiha, 18 Tom Mercey, 19 James Craig, 20 James Ingle, 21 Lee Dickson, 22 Greig Tonks, 23 Scott Armstrong.

Castres Olympique: 15 Florian Denos, 14 Matthieu Nicolas, 13 Paul Bonnefond, 12 Pierre-Manuel Garcia, 11 Pierre-Gilles Lakafia, 10 Pierre Bernard, 9 Thierry Lacrampe, 8 Jannie Bornman, 7 Steve Malonga, 6 Pierre Roussel, 5 Scott Murray, 4 Matthias Rolland, 3 Rossouw Kruger, 2 Mathieu Bonello, 1 Anton Peikrishvili.
Replacements: 16 Marc-Antoine Rallier, 17 Michaël Coetzee, 18 Luc Ducalcon, 19 Rodrigo Capo Ortega, 20 Ibrahim Diarra, 21 Rory Kockott, 22 Seremaia Bai, 23 Vincent Inigo.

Referee George Clanncy

Toulouse awarded a penaly from the start. 3 - 0 but quins have their opportunity to get 3 back after a tip tackle by toulouse

Players having to do a touch of gardening there.

Brilliant play from quins there!

that was a cracking try! really exciting match so far.

Wonderful try by brown, beautiful chip for it...!

3 - 8 to Quins

Saints are up 3 -0 Castres just bullying there forwards a bit now that there are missing Tongahuia

McCallister having a bit of a melt down at the moment.

the pitch is shocking.

So are Toulouse...they should just hand the trophy to Leinster.

Jeez, he couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo today.

What hands! What a try!

How is the Toulouse no.3 still on the field after dumping Skinner like he did. It was seen, therefore penalty as given, where was the red card?

Brilliant

an amazing try! Quins are on fire at the moment. Toulouse need a better kicker on the pitch asap.

Jeebus Toulouse are all over the place! Its on here for Quins!

Saint over the line but looks like a knock on... I dont think they will get it...

And as that is happening Quins go over Evans sees the space, good support ...

Nick Evans is exceptional.

15 -3 to quins

roddersm wrote:Jeebus Toulouse are all over the place! Its on here for Quins!

Aye an just as you say that they come back at quins with that fijian winger...

I think Care might be injured... UPI....?

Flip that no 11 can shift! Great tackle by Care!

oooh unlucky Toulouse, just a forward pass but that was a great bit of rugby! oooo am loving this game.

Good game so far, but Rolland sure does think a lot of himself! that was never forward

Wow great play by Toulouse....hmm that was marginal, they should have scored there.

Quins Dr gets a ticking off for touching the ball....! Stopping the early throw in by Toulouse...

Lawes playing well stealing line out ball off Castres

Good pressure from Quins

Toulouse have butchered so many chances!

maestegmafia wrote:Quins Dr gets a ticking off for touching the ball....! Stopping the early throw in by Toulouse...

Quins medical staff in bending the laws shocker

Bit of a silly thing to do and he deserved a talking to. He's lucky he's medical staff and might been needed to enter the pitch, otherwise he could have been watching the game from the stand.

Toulouse unlucky with the almost try, but yes, forward. Of course, being Rolland he'll be accused of making the game about him. Lets not let facts get in the way, eh?

Two good tries from Quins, very deserving of the lead. This group is tearing up the expectations book.

Castres are starting to play position and move Saints where they want them.

The pitch is ridiculous, nearly as bad as the ML

greybeard wrote:

maestegmafia wrote:Quins Dr gets a ticking off for touching the ball....! Stopping the early throw in by Toulouse...

Quins medical staff in bending the laws shocker

Bit of a silly thing to do and he deserved a talking to. He's lucky he's medical staff and might been needed to enter the pitch, otherwise he could have been watching the game from the stand.

Quins could well be dragged over the coals for it. Allan Rolland is the ref and he is a stickler for officiousness...

Toulouse try finally they must have butchered 6 chances.

Whats the Saints score?

That tRy has been coming for a while

viewtothegym wrote:Toulouse try finally they must have butchered 6 chances.

Whats the Saints score?

Saints leading 3 - 0

It looks like Lawes has been playing well in that game too.

maestegmafia wrote:

greybeard wrote:

maestegmafia wrote:Quins Dr gets a ticking off for touching the ball....! Stopping the early throw in by Toulouse...

Quins medical staff in bending the laws shocker

Bit of a silly thing to do and he deserved a talking to. He's lucky he's medical staff and might been needed to enter the pitch, otherwise he could have been watching the game from the stand.

Quins could well be dragged over the coals for it. Allan Rolland is the ref and he is a stickler for officiousness...

If he is dragged over the coals it will be because of the citing officer, not the panto villan.

SKY team keep talking about the Quins "fantastic defensive display" what game are they watching?

Toulouse have beat around twenty defenders and have drop the ball at the crucial moment

Does no one else agree that dumping Skinner on his head/shoulder merited a red card. I thought the laws very very clear on this, no room for ref's discretion.

Been a great rush defensive effort from Quins, gaps have appeared later on in the half but they've stifled so much.

Let's get this into perspective, Toulouse are a much better side but it's Quins tactics and tempo that are keeping them in it.

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:Does no one else agree that dumping Skinner on his head/shoulder merited a red card. I thought the laws very very clear on this, no room for ref's discretion.

I might be wrong, but I don't think Skinner actually reached the ground, did he?

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:Does no one else agree that dumping Skinner on his head/shoulder merited a red card. I thought the laws very very clear on this, no room for ref's discretion.

please don't get me started

WELL-PAST-IT turns the key.

What do the laws state?

Myler gets another penalty 6-0... to be fair Saints dont look like scoring a handful of tries that they need to make there European season look half decent..

Castres are not a great side either... Im switching back to Quins and Toulouse

Will skinner off injured for Wallace


Toulouse get three points for Robshaw being off side

Holding on at the ruck another pen for Toulouse might be too far out to kick at the posts though.

They go for touch good line out Quins under serious pressure now... Not sure how they have held out Servat. Great tackle...!

No try, quins off side...

Castres make two changes Hooker and tighthead... as Myler gets three more...

Servat held up for the second time in five minutes...

Saints get 3 more

Dylan Hartley actually just got Penalised for going up...?

I have never seen that before, and he goes up in every scrum.

Castres miss another kick at goal

Quins backrow are starting to struggle with Toulouse, holding on at the tackle, give away another penalty

munster laughing all the way to home qf if castres slip up.