An ex-All Black, former Springbok and ex-F1 team boss are poised to take over the storied French club.
The semi-finals are set in the NPC with Wellington hosting Waikato and Canterbury travelling to Bay of Plenty. Here are the top performers from the Bunnings NPC quarter-finals.
Graham Jack, the lanky lock’s father, was a 1998 Super Rugby champion playing in the Crusaders engine room.
BKT URC top try-scorer Johnny Matthews is proof there’s more than one path to rugby stardom. The hooker was 26 before he signed his first professional contract with Glasgow Warriors.
Johnny Sexton has joked his young son will chase down his record after he became Ireland’s all-time leading points scorer in a crushing Rugby World Cup win over Tonga.
The 37-year moved level with former international team-mate Ronan O’Gara’s total of 557.
Andy Farrell’s men travel to Edinburgh with Grand Slam aspirations still in tact.
Johnny Williams will be offically captured by Wales as Wayne Pivac names three uncapped players in his starting XV to face Georgia at Parc y Scarlets on Saturday.
When Hadleigh Parkes and Owen Williams were confirmed as heading for Japanese Top League, there was a collective sigh in Wales, followed by hands to the head and a phrase rhyming with ‘clucking bell’.