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Hamish Bidwell

We all know the Chiefs are the best team in Super Rugby

We all know they’re the best team in Super Rugby, and it’s seemed a shame that they have to negotiate so many weeks of round-robin football until they can prove it.

Brendan Fanning

Brendan Fanning: 'Leinster have the best-resourced squad in these islands but can’t make it pay.'

Leadership and clarity escaped Leinster at a crucial time as their dream of a fifth Champions Cup star went up in smoke, again

Fixtures & Results

FIXTURES & RESULTS

Pro D2

US Montauban

US Montauban

Thu May 8

3:00pm

Beziers

Beziers

Super Rugby Pacific

Fijian Drua

Fijian Drua

Fri May 9

3:05am

Blues

Blues

Japan Rugby League One

Urayasu D-Rocks

Urayasu D-Rocks

Fri May 9

5:35am

Mitsubishi Sagamihara Dynaboars

Mitsubishi Sagamihara Dynaboars

Investec Champions Cup

Bordeaux

Bordeaux

35 - 18

Toulouse

Toulouse

Challenge Cup

Lyon

Lyon

29 - 15

Racing 92

Racing 92

Japan Rugby League One

Yokohama Canon Eagles

Yokohama Canon Eagles

29 - 47

Kobelco Kobe Steelers

Kobelco Kobe Steelers

New Zealand and South Africa crowned SVNS Series champions in LA

New Zealand U85kg outclass Sri Lanka Tuskers in Kandy

Women's Rugby

WOMEN'S RUGBY

Womens Six Nations

Ireland Women

Ireland Women

15 - 27

France Women

France Women

Womens Six Nations

Scotland Women

Scotland Women

24 - 21

Wales Women

Wales Women

Womens Six Nations

England Women

England Women

38 - 5

Italy Women

Italy Women

PWR

Saracens Women

Saracens Women

32 - 24

Harlequins Women

Harlequins Women

PWR

Gloucester-Hartpury Women RFC

Gloucester-Hartpury Women RFC

36 - 20

Bristol Bears Women

Bristol Bears Women

Women's Internationals

Germany Women

Germany Women

19 - 23

Belgium Women

Belgium Women

England announce Rugby World Cup 2025 warm-up opponents

Sophie de Goede: Returning from injury with 'edge and physicality'

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France France

France

France

52 - 12

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Japan

Japan

France vs Japan - Team Sheets & Lineup

France

Japan

France

1

Jean-Baptiste Gros

51'

2

3

50'

4

Thibaud Flament

32'

5

Emmanuel Meafou

50'

6

40'

7

Alexandre Roumat

8

Gregory Alldritt

9

65'

10

11

Louis Bielle-Biarrey

12

13

Emilien Gailleton

55'

14

Theo Attissogbe

72'

15

50'

Substitutes

16

Julien Marchand

50'

17

51'

18

Georges-Henri Colombe

50'

19

Mickael Guillard

40'

20

32'

21

65'

22

Matthieu Jalibert

50'

23

55'

France

11 Bielle-Biarrey

Japan

1

51'

2

72'

3

Shuhei Takeuchi

56'

4

Epineri Uluiviti

5

53'

63'

6

Kanji Shimokawa

7

8

48'

9

50'

10

Harumichi Tatekawa

50'

11

12

66'

13

14

15

Substitutes

16

72'

17

51'

18

Keijiro Tamefusa

56'

19

48'

20

53'

63'

21

Shinobu Fujiwara

50'

22

Yusuke Kajimura

66'

23

Takuro Matsunaga

50'

Japan

Who will win?

RugbyPass' user vote

69%

31%

Votes 13

Other Fixtures

35 - 18

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