Will Biarritz, Perpignan continue to totter?
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:50
Crunch time: Will the Biarritz players be celebrating?
Already it is Round Five of France's Top 14 and the log has a strange, strange look.
It's strange to see Bayonne and Montpellier up at the top and Biarritz and Perpignan hovering just above the basement with European champions Toulouse and French champions Clermont stuck in the middle.
It's early days and that may all start changing in Round Five which is this Sunday. Biarritz are at home but it is to Stade Français and the Basques have a serious inability to score tries. Perpignan play Agen who are already suffering but that match is across in Agen,
Surely Toulouse will beat La Rochelle though the newly promoted men from the Atlantic coast are surviving well, but Toulouse are at home and will be zealous to get going again. Clermont, too, are at home, this time to Montpellier, slayers of Toulouse on Wednesday but the visitors may well find the climb up to Montferrand too steep.
The match between Castres and Racing could be a fascinating encounter, both teams capable of beating any other team but both capable of getting the wobbles.
One would hop that this Sunday's matches will produce more tries than Wednesday's did. In only one match - Stade Français vs Castres in Paris, did tries exceed kicked goals.
In that match there were eight tries and seven penalties. In the other six matches there were 12 tries, 44 penalty goals and five drop-goals. Kicked goals won four to one.
Fixtures for Round Five:
(Sunday, 5 September)
15.00: Agen vs Perpignan at Stade Armandie
15.00: Bourgoin vs Bayonne at Stade Pierre-Rajon
15.00: Castres vs Racing Métro 92 at Stade Pierre-Antoine
15.00: Clermont vs Montpellier at Parc des Sports Marcel-Michelin
15.00: Toulouse vs La Rochelle at Stade Ernest-Wallon
17.00: Brive vs
Toulon at Stade Amédée
20.45: Biarritz vs Stade Français at Parc des Sports d'Aguilera
Log after Round Four
1 Stade Français 13
2 Bayonne 13
3 Montpellier 13
4 Racing Métro 92 12
5 Toulouse 11
6 Clermont 10
7 Castres 10
8 Toulon 10
9 La Rochelle 9
10 Perpignan 8
11 Biarritz 6
12 Brive 6
13 Agen 5
14 Bourgoin 4
Match officials:
Clermont Auvergne vs Montpellier
Referee: Patrick Pechambert
Assistant referees: Jérôme Lamirand, Sébastien Hebert
Assessor: Michel Kazmierczak, Daniel Dartigeas
Television match official: Bernard Dal Maso
Biarritz vs Stade Français
Referee: Romain Poite
Assistant referees: Cédric Marchat, Pascal Ubeda
Assessor: Joël Bernard
Television match
official: Daniel Gillet
Brive vs Toulon
Referee: Jean-Luc Rebollal
Assistant referees: Mathieu Raynal, Bruno Fiche
Assessor: Philippe De Miranda
Television match official: Eric Gonthier
Bourgoin vs Bayonne
Referee: Laurent Cardona
Assistant referees: Salem Attalah, Gérard Gacon
Assessor: Jean Izquierdo, Patrick Thomas
Television match official: Jean-Pierre Pellaprat
Castres vs Racing Metro 92
Referee: Pascal Gauzere
Assistant referees: Franck Maciello, Frédéric Gourgues
Assessor: Pascal Bouchet, Patrick Robin
Television match official: Gilles Cogne
Agen vs Perpignan
Referee: Eric Gauzins
Assistant referees: Sébastien Cloute, Jean-Michel Schutz
Assessor: Bernard Gabriel, Bernard Perez
Television match official: Gérard Borreani
Toulouse vs La Rochelle
Referee: David Rosich
Assistant referees: Nicolas Datas, Christophe
Malterre
Assessor: Michel Roger, Serge Marzullo
Television match official: Vincent Azoulay
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