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43-year-old Ma'a Nonu scores first try for Toulon in 7 years

Ma’a Nonu rolled back the years on Saturday night, scoring a late try as Toulon thumped Castres 52–23 in a Top 14 play-off at Stade Mayol to book their place in the semi-finals.

Mark Orders

Adam Beard: 'It’s a bit clichéd, but you only have one life. You want to experience things.'

The 58-cap Welsh second-row is leaving Wales for the South of France with few regrets and fond memories of his time with the Ospreys

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FIXTURES & RESULTS

British & Irish Lions

British & Irish Lions

British & Irish Lions

Fri Jun 20

2:00pm

Argentina

Argentina

Top 14

Toulouse

Toulouse

Fri Jun 20

2:05pm

Bayonne

Bayonne

Super Rugby Pacific

Crusaders

Crusaders

Sat Jun 21

2:05am

Chiefs

Chiefs

Top 14

Toulon

Toulon

52 - 23

Castres

Castres

United Rugby Championship

Leinster

Leinster

32 - 7

Bulls

Bulls

Gallagher Premiership

Bath

Bath

23 - 21

Leicester

Leicester

Leinster end hunt for silverware with URC win over Bulls

Bath repel late surge from devastated Tigers to end wait for Prem

Women's Rugby

Women's Internationals

South Africa Women

South Africa Women

Sat Jul 5

6:30am

Canada Women

Canada Women

Women's Internationals

South Africa Women

South Africa Women

Sat Jul 5

6:30am

Canada Women

Canada Women

Women's Internationals

Trinidad and Tobago Women

Trinidad and Tobago Women

Fri Jun 27

7:00pm

Mexico Women

Mexico Women

Women's Internationals

Brazil Women

Brazil Women

58 - 7

Colombia Women

Colombia Women

Women's Internationals

Jamaica Women

Jamaica Women

71 - 7

Trinidad and Tobago Women

Trinidad and Tobago Women

Women's Internationals

Japan Women

Japan Women

63 - 5

Hong Kong Women

Hong Kong Women

Exeter Chiefs sign the PWR's first ever Black Fern

Back-to-back matches to be introduced in revamped Women’s Six Nations

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21 - 14

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20 - 3

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37 - 17

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23 - 21

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32 - 7

FT

52 - 23

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Japan Rugby League One Toyota Verblitz Kubota Spears

Japan Top League | Full Highlights | Round 4

03 Feb 2020

Japan Top League | Round 4 Highlights

Dan Carter and Andy Ellis continue to maintain the Midas touch deep into their golden years, putting on a masterclass alongside bustling No.8 and 5-try-hero Taumua Naeata, the Kobelco Steelers running riot over NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes. The Steelers now sit 2nd on the table, 2 points adrift of Robbie Deans’ Panasonic Wild Knights who fielded both David Pocock and Sam Whitelock in their clash with the Canon Eagles.

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There was plenty more to like over the weekend including an unstoppably powerful display from Tevita Li, who has been nothing less than an entertainment machine in his first Top League season for the Suntory Sungoliath…

Round 4 Fixtures:

HINO Red Dolphins v Yamaha Jubilo
Mitsubishi Dynaboars v Toshiba Brave Lupus
Suntory Sungoliath v NEC Green Rockets
Toyota Verblitz v Honda Heat
Munakata Sanix Blues v Kubota Spears
Kobelco Steelers v NTTDoCoMo Red Hurricanes
Canon Eagles v Panasonic Wild knights
Ricoh Black Rams v NTT Communications Shining Arcs

Watch Full Round 3 Highlights Here:

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LW 10 minutes ago

Dan Cole gives brutally frank reaction to controversial end to his career

He played a long time…. Can't argue with that, good for him

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Carlos 1 hour ago

43-year-old Ma'a Nonu scores first try for Toulon in 7 years

C’est la même chose avec le rugby Hispane. Ríen de l’Argentine ou otres pays.

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BA 2 hours ago

'Not a normal rugby team' - The Leinster flex that floored Jake White

Chiefs Saders Brumbies Blues Canes at full noise can foot it with any club provincial team in the world just as I’m sure is the same for Bath Bordeaux whoever is at top of the top comps going around surely if u knew rugby u would know that? Obviously the Bulls cannot according to Jake but I don’t believe that …Leinster lost to a Prem club this year btw

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Mark 3 hours ago

Three Premiership final battles that would have influenced Steve Borthwick

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fl 3 hours ago

Three Premiership final battles that would have influenced Steve Borthwick

You are very stupid!

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fl 3 hours ago

Rassie Erasmus releases 11 players as he trims to 45-man Springbok squad

Yet more evidence that 2026 will be the year that Rassie finally overhauls his aging squad!

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Alex 4 hours ago

43-year-old Ma'a Nonu scores first try for Toulon in 7 years

Incredible!! What a legend!

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Tk 5 hours ago

Super Rugby semi takes: Chiefs' wings are ABs, Hoskins horror show

It is going to be interesting seeing some of Razor’s selections this year, wing included. Telea has gone, Clarke has not had a great year, Sevu goes missing in the big tests, Jordan will play 15. Narawa, Carter, Tavatavanawai have all put their hands up with great SR form.

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Carlos 5 hours ago

Penarol claim Super Rugby Americas title with win over Dogos

And yet another year where I haven’t seen one minute of any game. Or maybe I did catch 30 seconds of highlights on YouTube….

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Mark 5 hours ago

Three Premiership final battles that would have influenced Steve Borthwick

Borthwick patently has his favourites, and the current England team are largely in his own image, dull, boring and one dimensional.

Don’t expect the ugly sisters to suddenly become cinderalla at midnight!!

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Hammer Head 5 hours ago

Johann van Graan: The Bulls boy who would be England's king

I agree. It’s a pity though that none of the best are back home coaching our franchises.

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RedWarriors 6 hours ago

'Not a normal rugby team' - The Leinster flex that floored Jake White

I was actually at the match. Leinster were the outstanding team in the league stage. Leinster’s squad depth meant the Bulls could only nick a late win in Pretoria against an understrenght Leinster. Simple put, Leinster are significantly better this year compared to last. The Dublin match last year was a big win by Leinster. Yes they won by a point in the RDS three years ago but thats not relevant to yesterday.

As Leinster are such a dangerous team, it forces an opponent to focus on a strategy to undermine them and that way get their game on the pitch. Leinster allowed that against Northampton. But that was not going to happen again. The Bulls attack in last 10 minutes of the first half was as savage as anything in the URC this year. Yet Leinsters coaching plan repelled them allied to savage commitment from the players. The defense was outstanding, pressure at breakdown outstanding. Leinster did not win the European cup but arguably at their best this year no other European team could reach that height. They reached that yesterday. Leinster completely removed Bulls ability to hurt them.

And Croke Park….100 years ago the Brits fired machine guns into spectators injuring 100s and killing loads. No Irish team ever performs badly there. Same with Irish supporters. Opposition players might as well be Brit Tommies with machine guns.

I think a great Leinster team, played a great game plan, to the height of their power in a horrible stadium for opponents. If Bulls score before half time they were back in the match. They went down, but they went down fighting.

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JW 6 hours ago

Broken hand or not, Richie Mo'unga is still New Zealand's best 10

Well it might fly in the direction his leg his kick but you just watch the ball closely it’s wobbling all over the show lol even his kick for Clarke was awkward just lucky it bounced right into his hands.

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Top16 7 hours ago

43-year-old Ma'a Nonu scores first try for Toulon in 7 years

Marrant. Vous parlez du top 14 uniquement parce que Nonu a marqué un essai.

Ok, c'est une très grande star du rugby avec une belle longévité au très haut niveau. Mais pas un mot sur les affluences et l'ambiance dans les stades français ce week-end ?

Quand on regarde le Super Rugby, l'URC ou la PR rien d'équivalent à l'horizon.

Dommage car je pense qu'il y a une relation de cause à effet entre la rentabilité des Ligues et l'attrait du public (donc des diffuseurs).

L'argent que tous envie au top 14 vient pour des raisons plutôt claires à mes yeux.

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RedWarriors 7 hours ago

Jordie Barrett hints at Leinster return after lifting his first club trophy

He has played and behaved brilliantly in Leinster. It was lovely to see him getting a huge cheer when he got his medal yesterday.

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CV 7 hours ago

'Not a normal rugby team' - The Leinster flex that floored Jake White

Have you seen the lineups of the French clubs? The only team Leinster struggled against in the group stage was La Rochelle, who are rebuilding for next season. They were ranked 9th in the Top 14 when Leinster beat them. That is how strong the Top 14 is. I hope they play Bordeaux next season, that’s going to be one hell of a game.

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IkeaBoy 8 hours ago

'Not a normal rugby team' - The Leinster flex that floored Jake White

All absolutely fair.

They were universally hailed as chokers last year in the CC final despite being a drop goal away from beating Toulouse. A Toulouse team that went on to drop 60 PTS on UBB in that years top 14 final.

I can't understand Irish fans who seem to think we'd be better off without a dominant Leinster?

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JJ 8 hours ago

Adam Beard: 'It’s a bit clichéd, but you only have one life. You want to experience things.'

One of those players that you don’t realise how good they are until they’re not there. The stats on Squidge rugby were incredible. Wales’ lineout in 2023 with Beardy 91%, without Beardy 71%. In 2024 it was 92% and 73%. I guess it’s odds on that Montpellier will draw the Ospreys in the European Challenge Cup.

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PB 8 hours ago

Johann van Graan: The Bulls boy who would be England's king

Also Franco Smith, Deon Davids and Mzwandile Stick

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SK 8 hours ago

'Not a normal rugby team' - The Leinster flex that floored Jake White

Jake White banging hard on the same drum ignores some fundamental realities. This same Bulls team beat full strength Leinster in 2 semi finals and Munster accounted for them in another. Northampton took them down this year in the Champs cup. Munster won the URC away in SA and Glasgow did it last year. The team didnt show up, they didnt perform and they barely fired a shot. In fairness Leinster also didnt allow it and played magnificently. Yes Leinster are top class but they are beatable and the Bulls were really poor on Saturday. White doesnt need more resources to win the URC. He doesnt need to build some sort of Galacticos. He needs his team to do the job in the final. Right now they are the biggest chokers in the comp.

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