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00:00:00there they haven't been perfect tonight with their timing to lose with with
00:00:06every part of their backline maneuvers but on this occasion everything was done
00:00:12right it took out the the correct defenders the ones they were trying to
00:00:16take out Intermach again with the extra two points Angus and it just looks like
00:00:22like Swiss clockwork doesn't it well it was a blood circulation problem that
00:00:28destroyed his season last campaign but he's back to full fitness now and a
00:00:32seventh try of the season for the man who made his France international debut in
00:00:37the Autumnation series against Australia
00:00:43Laurent Travers watching on probably as impressed as anybody else with what to
00:00:50lose are coming up with tonight Laurent Travers formerly of racing of course a long
00:01:07long time ago now
00:01:08well they're gonna run it but why wouldn't you when you've got a 42 point lead Jack
00:01:14Willis sets off again laggy laggy Vala does absolutely everything he can to fly
00:01:19through the air to stop him and they're back down in the 22 she bear has to get
00:01:25rid of it and a little push by Teddy Toma that ball has been brought back in
00:01:31again by Intermach Blair Kinghorn to Kelvin Gorg again and Gorg is running through taking on three of them almost
00:01:43as the five meter line now it's a demoralized racing 92 absolutely being pummeled
00:01:53and gets away
00:01:55and gets away and gets away and scores 50 points for to lose just over four minutes into the second
00:02:05half
00:02:07it's becoming an absolute rout
00:02:11Lebel coming up with his tenth try of the season
00:02:17well Matisse Lebel deserves to have this try described but it's so hard not to go back to the Antoine
00:02:23Dupont factor his contribution Gorg as well who got
00:02:27them right down close to the line but here it is he skips past one skips through another bounces off
00:02:32another one and then twists and turns his way just to get to the ball to the line
00:02:37and just when rushing supporters thought it couldn't feel much worse
00:02:43there it goes Lebel fantastic but it all stems from that decision of Dupont right back in his own half
00:02:49to run it out he saw opportunity he did need his support play but it's almost inevitably there with to
00:02:54lose
00:02:56ah perfection all the way through the night from to lose embodied by another successful kick from Romain Intermach
00:03:05well Lebel here just going through a whole load of rather disheveled tackles
00:03:14taking it in turns to miss him
00:03:20well to lose we were talking in the break about how many big-time players they have but it's a
00:03:25big-time mentality watched on by the man who won the title for them in the final last season
00:03:30Thomas Ramos he will be extremely impressed with everything he's seen and Leo into Leo Carbono bears the wounds of
00:03:40a rather injuring season coming to an end it seems for racing and now it's Harlem Globetrotter time from Toulouse
00:03:50champagne rugby from the deep southwest of the country
00:03:59okay
00:03:59okay
00:04:03so many tries I need to catch up on the paperwork
00:04:06what are we now 52-3
00:04:09unbelievable
00:04:11echoes of the final from two years ago against Unon Bordeaux bag which I know you enjoyed
00:04:16yes well I mean we remember back then I think the Hoonah had gone and they already had over 50
00:04:22and Malvaca got a turnover right down in his maybe in his own goal in goal area and and they
00:04:28kept attacking and it's the same as Dupont there that's not arrogance from Dupont trying to run that out that's
00:04:33just their first nature their first
00:04:35instinct is to look to have a go and if it's on to try it for one phase or two
00:04:41phases or you know just straight from the the running it back then they'll do that
00:04:46Diego Escobar there
00:04:48as Leo Carbono gets his cut above his eye bandaged up
00:04:54you saw Antoine Ghibert as well there looking rather dishevelled and disgruntled on the wrestling bench he's come off which
00:05:03means that Hugo Cern will be on somewhere
00:05:13this has been a demoralizing night for the CL label
00:05:24Thomas Ledo can't get it it's been knocked on
00:05:27and it's picked up by François Cros
00:05:31taken by Clement Verger
00:05:37substitute lock forward
00:05:40oh Rasing have managed to steal it
00:05:45Edouard Junior, Javert and Joquet, taking it on, just a teenager.
00:05:56So coming in over the top.
00:06:00The counter-up was good actually to start with there, but then the follow-up wasn't.
00:06:04And that's a good kick.
00:06:06Patrice Colazzo, stern-faced, knows the season will end tonight.
00:06:13Well, I think all you can do now from a wrestling perspective is not think about the scoreboard,
00:06:19although that's more easily said than done, and just focus on process.
00:06:23Action by action, little five-minute blocks, avoiding conceding another try,
00:06:29get through things as well as they can, be accurate as they can.
00:06:33I wonder when those Claremont fans bought their tickets for this.
00:06:37They must have thought that Claremont might be able to come here,
00:06:39but they might have beaten Uno Bordeaux-Berg on the final night of the regular season
00:06:45when Racing got the better of Toulouse, but neither of them came through.
00:06:50Francois Tran-Duke on his phone, of course.
00:06:55Yeah, stop smiling.
00:06:56Your team is not exactly doing well here tonight.
00:07:00He's got Montpellier tomorrow, could consider it his team too.
00:07:04Second bite at the cherry.
00:07:06Montpellier now.
00:07:16Well, the one thing you can say about Toulouse is that once they get on top of you,
00:07:19they do not let go.
00:07:21They just keep on going.
00:07:26And you can see there's no messing about, there's no time delaying or anything like that.
00:07:31They just want to get played straight on, get right up the other end,
00:07:33and start taking them apart again.
00:07:37Well, they back their fitness, they back their skills, they back their teamwork,
00:07:40and why wouldn't you?
00:07:41They just want to get on with it and play, and they're ruthless.
00:07:46They've got a reasonable bench to call on too.
00:07:48Julian Marchand.
00:07:51Another of those players that was here all the way from the early days
00:07:55of that first victory in 2019.
00:07:57The first one under Hugo Moller.
00:08:01Ruma.
00:08:03So long he tried to get into the French national side,
00:08:06and it wasn't until relatively recently that he finally managed to get in there,
00:08:09and now he's a regular.
00:08:11Out by Carboneau.
00:08:14Decent kick too.
00:08:15A lot of frustration went into that clearance.
00:08:18Yes, but I'm hoping he didn't tap it and go.
00:08:20He looked like he was on the run.
00:08:22I hope it was sort of a roundabout where the mark was,
00:08:24because otherwise if he's tapped it and run,
00:08:25they don't get to throw it.
00:08:27Almost too successful that move.
00:08:30And Toulouse just getting themselves away from their support a little bit.
00:08:33Very, very few errors tonight that we've seen,
00:08:37and Joseph was able to get across that ball.
00:08:47And the American Eagle on.
00:08:49Mavaka.
00:08:51Off.
00:08:53Marchant on.
00:08:55The two French internationals switching places,
00:08:58as they do internationally as well.
00:09:00France getting ready to go to New Zealand
00:09:02to start off the Nations Championship,
00:09:04which is just around the corner and of course Toulouse's players who were
00:09:09represented in the French muscle side will still be looking at a another
00:09:14domestic date next week at the Stade de France which has come almost their third home
00:09:21we have the Ernst Wallonne as their first home they have the stadium the
00:09:27Toulouse as their second and arguably the Stade de France as their third
00:09:33well that's far from the first time we see that Jack Willis coming up with the
00:09:36ball and have gone quickly to lose they were not going to give you any time to
00:09:40talk about that because the Barassi is already off and running Cork helps out
00:09:44good piece of play to support there allows quick ball Marchand gets his first touch
00:09:48it's coming on Dupont has to carry on there's an advantage being played which
00:09:53will now be executed
00:09:58they work off the ball is fantastic to lose they're always in motion they're
00:10:03quick to react when there's an opportunity they give the ball carrier options on
00:10:09either side so that the ball carry always knows if he sees a tackler flying in on
00:10:15him he can just pop it and there'll be someone there on on either side of him as
00:10:18Dupont gets his chance for a break listen to the ovation for Antoine Dupont he might not have
00:10:25had too much play this season but he's a game breaker pretty much every time he comes
00:10:30onto the pitch and tonight has been no exception
00:10:37little thing for you here Andrew to lose when they played the final two years
00:10:42ago 159-3 they are one converted try away from matching that with 30 minutes to
00:10:49go with 30 minutes to go
00:10:56have to go with De�
00:10:57not do much of his nothing much nor for me
00:11:04Mallia sitting up in the stand as well
00:11:06I mean the the riches that they've got there's phenomenal but the way they bring them all
00:11:13together as well from different backgrounds different rugby cultures as well well this
00:11:18is another thing we say we see so there won друзья Matt I love watching on from the stands
00:11:23that it doesn't seem to matter when they miss players the whole team just seems to just plug
00:11:29and play and move on it doesn't always work away from home sometimes we've seen a few defeats this
00:11:34season but when it comes to the games that really matter it almost seems it doesn't matter who plays
00:11:40paul grau of course led them to the title without antoine du bonnard season to give one example of
00:11:46it is willis who never seems to be injured and he's always metronomically reliable
00:11:53punching his way through gain lines left right and center
00:11:59verger
00:12:02it's like joey manu is trying to hold back the tide
00:12:07speaking of paul grau little chip over the top and well taken by cern and calls the mark
00:12:17going back to the penalty and say they're tackling on the ground one of the wrestling players yeah
00:12:25in terms of what you're just saying there about players slotting in
00:12:29there are so many quality players around that you don't have to be an international to slot in just
00:12:34long as you're doing your job well you know the extras are being added by anyone else throughout the
00:12:38team and it also makes it a bit easier to integrate new players coming through and they just keep
00:12:45tuning them out year after year they've got a great academy system but then taking that step up to the
00:12:51big boys they come into a team that's normally confident that's normally got good communication
00:12:55that's got good examples being set both in the attitude the skills the the resilience and the
00:13:02the hardness of the likes of jack willis for example great examples to be setting for young
00:13:07players then you bring on a guy like thibault flamont who's just you know fantastic and whatever
00:13:12team you play him a proper international lock big carrier for toulouse and george henry colomb as well
00:13:17as well taken flamont first successful take that ball has been brought down penalty advantage to toulouse
00:13:47and this is trouble again for the men in blue and white a little forward move there by barrasi
00:13:57they fight by marshall
00:14:03flamont hands it off to grau paul grau can see the line grau but he can't quite reach for it
00:14:10cross he's already scored his first try of the season but he won't score his second because he's held up
00:14:16so we will come back for the infringement
00:14:22almost struggle to keep up with the attacks that are raining down on rassing
00:14:33what have we got this time from toulouse last time they used miafu this close same sort of a setup
00:14:40marshall instead of miafu instead of mawaka sorry slightly different format
00:14:48marshall takes goes himself and he gets there on his own never mind the tactics just run and put the
00:14:57ball
00:14:57down julian marshall taking control of the situation well like you know you hate to acknowledge it from
00:15:07forwards but there was quite a bit of
00:15:12smart acting there from marshall he's grouped all his forwards around him told them to come in
00:15:17everyone from rassing probably thinking they're about to set up a mall that marshall just takes it
00:15:21takes the first contact and gets the the mall set around him but off he went put his head down
00:15:28and burrowed away through the line managed to stretch out his arm and a well-taken try
00:15:34front row club will be happy julian marshall has scored in every competition he's played in this
00:15:39season for club and country and now he's scored in the semi-final too
00:15:46roman entomac hasn't missed a kick yet
00:15:50and they've not all been easy this one's sort of half difficult but it's completely through
00:15:58and we are at the stage where we were in the final here two years ago toulouse 59 the others
00:16:07three
00:16:10exactly the same score by which they beat unon bordo bag as as thomas lombard watches on well former
00:16:17racing racing player as well as stud francais of course his team stud francais playing tomorrow night
00:16:22he's the general manager there and of course one eye perhaps on the final because in case
00:16:29trying not to look impressed as well there i think yeah absolutely goodness me 59-3
00:16:39with 25 minutes to go
00:16:43they are still almost keeping up a point a minute deep into the second half and patrice
00:16:49calazzo there looking like he's trying to find a solution but even if he finds it now it's too late
00:16:57already they'll be thinking of next season
00:17:13so then that aldegueri to verger and nothing another rassing attack peters away into nothing
00:17:23willis offload to marshall marshall pirouetting his way over the first halfway line willis again
00:17:31as much energy now as at the kickoff at the beginning of the first half it seems
00:17:38grow into the ano the american international
00:17:44whose uh international football team are playing at this very minute as well against australia
00:17:53that's gone out on the full first thing that toulouse feel like they've done all night
00:17:59well the men in the mankinis are enjoying themselves
00:18:04not so much though he's wearing blue and white tops though
00:18:07even gail fico's legendary defensive skills have not been able to keep to lose at bay
00:18:18well it's three years ago these teams last met in the semi-final
00:18:23the likes of richie arnold and peter aki archer retier celibasio tolafua
00:18:27luca toza alban plasin tim nanny williams and charlie farmena no longer with the toulouse and yet the
00:18:34domination continues
00:18:39a new generation of players within a generation of dominance continuing the toulouse superiority led by
00:18:48jack willis the player of the season last campaign doing everything he can to try and win it again
00:19:00and it is it's a measure of how influential he is that even with antoine dupont fit again he still
00:19:06is the captain
00:19:08who reads the captain of the team
00:19:13laggillaga
00:19:14up to halfway joshua tuisovah
00:19:19makes almost 10 meters
00:19:23hill
00:19:28well
00:19:29this is better from racing slow progress but progress nonetheless
00:19:35Cern runs into Gorg, tries to rip the ball away,
00:19:38but the fly-half manages to keep a grasp on it.
00:19:41That's been dropped sideways.
00:19:43And Racing get away with it, Carboneau.
00:19:45There goes Willis.
00:19:47This time he's tying it off on his feet.
00:19:49Hill.
00:20:00Quick by James, but dropped by Lagi-Lagi-Valu.
00:20:05Because he starts at the side.
00:20:07There's no red in the proximity.
00:20:10He would have known.
00:20:12OK, but there's no red.
00:20:14It's almost like Racing brought the car out tonight
00:20:18but forgot to fill it with petrol.
00:20:21The problem is most teams
00:20:25expect that if they hold on to the ball
00:20:26six, seven, eight phases and upwards,
00:20:29that your chances of scoring improves
00:20:32because the defence has got disorganised
00:20:33and has to regenerate all the time.
00:20:36Against Toulouse,
00:20:37it's actually the opposite.
00:20:39The more phases you go through,
00:20:40the more likely there's going to be.
00:20:42It gets a bit easier now, perhaps,
00:20:44without Jack Willis, who's the main stealer.
00:20:46But there's more and more probability
00:20:48that you're going to get the ball stolen.
00:20:50Jack Willis was just sitting there around the fringes.
00:20:52If he doesn't have to make a tackle,
00:20:54he doesn't go in.
00:20:55He lets the tackle get made.
00:20:56He pulls the player down
00:20:57and he goes straight in for the steal.
00:20:58Well, the most popular Englishman in France
00:21:01is Johnny Wilkinson.
00:21:02Jack Willis, an absolute legend already
00:21:05in Toulouse quarters,
00:21:08made the decision to turn his back
00:21:10on the England side and stay with Toulouse
00:21:12and I'm not sure he's really regretted that since.
00:21:27And off we go again!
00:21:32Ange Capuzzo,
00:21:33just when you thought you could relax.
00:21:37Grau,
00:21:39little kick through.
00:21:45Take it away by Rabutamada.
00:21:48Nothing is working.
00:21:50Nothing is working.
00:21:58Just a resigned shake of the head now from Patrick's collapse.
00:22:02There's not much more that he can really do to influence this game.
00:22:06Started off as the racing 92 youth coach who was part of La Rochelle's rise.
00:22:11Leading the club up to the top five in just three years in 2014.
00:22:15Another three years later in 2017.
00:22:18Finished top of the top 14 regular season.
00:22:25That's been the man on the rise in the game.
00:22:28But he needs to find another level of play from his players.
00:22:33If he is to challenge.
00:22:36Maybe just a little bit too much energy exerted
00:22:39to make sure they got into the top six.
00:22:42It's a long old season in France.
00:22:47Starting in September.
00:22:49Finishing at the end of June.
00:22:52There's probably not any consolation to Patrice Callazzo at the moment.
00:22:56all the wrestling fans.
00:22:59But there's a general acceptance, I think, that this Toulouse team at the moment can do this.
00:23:04I mean, they did it in the final, as you say, two years ago.
00:23:07And they really can run up big scores against anyone.
00:23:11So he's far from alone in this, Patrice Callazzo.
00:23:15All the players are alone in their pain.
00:23:18I think everyone comes and plays Toulouse with the thought that,
00:23:21OK, if they put it together on their day, we could be taking a lot of points here.
00:23:25No, I'm going to talk.
00:23:30The two can't be head-to-head.
00:23:33Racing have played here a couple of times in the past.
00:23:35In 2011 they lost an absolute belter of a game against Montpellier in the semi-finals.
00:23:44Then in 2017 they lost to Clermont.
00:23:4637-31, another semi-final.
00:23:49Clermont going on to win the final.
00:23:57And they could be losing to the eventual champions again this time.
00:24:02But to be fair on the crowd, they've waited over an hour before they've started the Mexican Wave.
00:24:09And with a 59-3 scoreline,
00:24:12not really going to hold it against them this time.
00:24:14The game is already done.
00:24:18Back inside by Gore.
00:24:21Paul Grau.
00:24:24Charging run by Verge.
00:24:26And it's picked up by Grau again.
00:24:29Taking a book out of Antoine Dupont's book as he often does.
00:24:33Marchand.
00:24:34Enter that.
00:24:35Missed pass out wide.
00:24:38Taken by Blair Kinghorn who tries to bunny-hop over the tackle.
00:24:43Grau.
00:24:44Well taken down though.
00:24:46Well taken down though.
00:24:51By Marchand.
00:24:56Taken on by Flamont.
00:25:02And they just got the feeling that they're grinding their way down towards the try-line again before releasing the
00:25:09attack.
00:25:12Kroos bounces off one challenge. Orm escapes another.
00:25:16Heels left on the ground. Grau feeds it out.
00:25:18into that little kick over the top, here he comes.
00:25:21Tony Torma trying to take it.
00:25:24Celestine and Ravutamala just doing enough to put it off.
00:25:29It will be made at five.
00:25:30I'll check the placement on your four.
00:25:33We're going to have a look with the TMO and a dangerous piece of play.
00:25:37I'm going to check the placement at the start of the action
00:25:38of the four blancs at the level of 22.
00:25:40So we have a suspicion that we have the four blancs
00:25:43on the 21 in red, I think, at the level of 22.
00:25:46Otherwise, it will take a melee for them
00:25:47because it's the blanc who throws the ball.
00:25:48I don't know.
00:25:54He sits on the wing, and there it is there.
00:25:57Howie's got out of the scrum there that quick?
00:25:58Oh, he's gone to the back row, hasn't he?
00:26:00But he's a bit tall guy, Johnny Hill.
00:26:05I think we can let that one go, can't we leave that one alone?
00:26:08I'm surprised that Orange Capuzzo could reach his chin,
00:26:10to be quite honest with you.
00:26:29Well, that's what you were saying.
00:26:30The first contact is on the chest,
00:26:32but...
00:26:38Well, that's what you were saying.
00:26:39The first contact is on the chest.
00:26:41Asmira, Sami, the previous one, please.
00:26:44I think she was good.
00:26:45That's right.
00:26:46That's right.
00:26:49Ironically, though, we're talking about Capuzzo's...
00:26:51Oh, well, that might change it.
00:26:54Half chest, half chin.
00:26:56Yeah, I mean, they're looking at Johnny Hill's...
00:26:59the tackle, and...
00:27:01I mean...
00:27:02The irony is, as we always say,
00:27:03they're not getting low enough,
00:27:04he would have actually benefited from going higher.
00:27:07Hill...
00:27:07It would have completely...
00:27:09got him on his chest.
00:27:10Okay.
00:27:12He may...
00:27:12I don't think he fully intended
00:27:14that he was going to make the tackle, Johnny Hill.
00:27:16He wasn't anticipating making the tackle.
00:27:20It was...
00:27:21They're gonna get a...
00:27:24penalty, but...
00:27:26He's gonna have penalty.
00:27:29There is a responsibility on the tackle player
00:27:32to get low enough.
00:27:33Now, he's a big, tall guy,
00:27:35and a huge height...
00:27:37disparity there between...
00:27:38between Hill and Capuzzo.
00:27:41But it is still his responsibility, I guess, to get low.
00:27:44It does make it tough for the tall guys
00:27:46to really, really get low, so...
00:27:48just from a practicality point of view,
00:27:51or a pragmatic approach to it,
00:27:54they're disadvantaged a lot.
00:27:55Just saw Fabien Sacconi there,
00:27:57got an orange card in the...
00:27:59victory over Toulouse,
00:28:01and so missed...
00:28:02last week,
00:28:03and this week,
00:28:04suspended.
00:28:08Ruman's having his ankle iced.
00:28:14And let's hope that's not too serious,
00:28:15with the final coming up next week.
00:28:18Not a lot of time all of a sudden to get rid of those injuries,
00:28:22which the two-week gap has allowed some to do.
00:28:24Here comes Toulouse again,
00:28:26Julian Marchand,
00:28:28ready to score again.
00:28:31Mavaka,
00:28:32into the five-meter line.
00:28:35Two of them,
00:28:36big four, struggling to contain him.
00:28:40Graul,
00:28:41Marchand,
00:28:42both of the French international hookers on the pitch together,
00:28:45both getting involved in the action.
00:28:47Graul out again,
00:28:47here comes Kroos.
00:28:49Good tackle though,
00:28:51by Jabé Njöke.
00:28:55Graul again,
00:28:56from
00:28:57racing,
00:28:59lining up their defence once more.
00:29:16Graul,
00:29:17out to,
00:29:18Marchand.
00:29:20Don't often see those two on the pitch together.
00:29:25They're probably rather enjoying it.
00:29:29Of course,
00:29:30needed a couple of bites to take that ball with him.
00:29:32Graul,
00:29:33Kinghorn,
00:29:34missed pass,
00:29:35Entermach,
00:29:36well tackled by Carboneau.
00:29:39Try saving tackle there.
00:29:41However,
00:29:42I thought they were going to take that quickly and go again,
00:29:45but the referee has called the back.
00:29:46It's going to be a deliberate knock-on there.
00:29:54He's on heads time for a while now for racing players.
00:30:00Celestino,
00:30:01Rabatoumada,
00:30:02one of those who came in at the beginning of this season from Fiji and drew up.
00:30:09And pinged,
00:30:11and yellow carded,
00:30:12a third yellow card of the game for racing.
00:30:15Benete.
00:30:16And if it stays at 59 points for three,
00:30:18now I'll be amazed.
00:30:24Here they come again,
00:30:25Marchand doing the same thing as before.
00:30:27They're wise to him this time.
00:30:29Held up.
00:30:30Over they go again though,
00:30:31that's surely down.
00:30:34Josh Brennan,
00:30:34No.
00:30:38Yes, he got that.
00:30:39I think the TMO will discover that that's actually a try.
00:30:43Okay.
00:30:45Call video.
00:30:46No decision on the ground.
00:30:47I wouldn't mind betting that the TMO had a little word in that field of Pierre Russe.
00:30:52Yes, Pierre, let's look at that.
00:30:55I think Samy's going to be good to look at that.
00:30:59I think that the TMO is quite confident that this is going to be a try.
00:31:04There goes Brennan,
00:31:06but he's definitely over the line,
00:31:07so now we just need it ground level
00:31:09to make sure he's got it to the ground.
00:31:11Well, that first few,
00:31:12he was saying the first few that we saw on the actual match,
00:31:15should be enough.
00:31:17Ooh.
00:31:18Has that been held up?
00:31:24Roman Taffer for Noah getting his shovel-like hands underneath
00:31:28the length of the ball, perhaps?
00:31:35Now, this hasn't been given us a try, so...
00:31:37At the moment, I see a leg down.
00:31:39I see a leg down.
00:31:40I see a leg down.
00:31:41For now, I don't have to touch on the ground.
00:31:43I have the leg down under the ball.
00:31:46So, wait.
00:31:47We're going to wait a little.
00:31:49We're going to see if there are other angles
00:31:50that we're going to defend.
00:31:53It looks different if we got it down,
00:31:54but of course...
00:31:55For me, it's good.
00:31:56We're going to rest here with this angle.
00:31:58Okay, so this angle is the best.
00:31:59It's the best.
00:32:00It's the best.
00:32:01I've never tried to try the ball on top.
00:32:04I thought there was a hit there
00:32:05that might have just brushed the ground
00:32:07before going on to Telfi Fanuil's arm.
00:32:10No.
00:32:11Well, the upshot of that, I think, is no try.
00:32:13So, poor old Josh Brennan doesn't get to celebrate.
00:32:20And it's a goal-line dropout.
00:32:22Going to go short, Russing.
00:32:27Might as well.
00:32:28They've got to get the ball
00:32:28and try and attack somehow.
00:32:30However, all they've done is given
00:32:32Toulouse great positional play.
00:32:34Ange Capuzza with the attack,
00:32:36with the catch.
00:32:37Julien Marchand with the charge.
00:32:43Moving into Ternel Atupou.
00:32:45One of those who were able to play against Toulouse
00:32:48is on the final day of the season,
00:32:49because of problems with non-French trained players.
00:32:54There is a certain amount of French trained players,
00:32:57the Chiefs, as they're called,
00:32:59that have to be played throughout the season.
00:33:02And Patrice Colosso found his team behind in that aspect.
00:33:05He still had to sacrifice some of his bigger stars
00:33:08so that he could play players
00:33:09that have come through the French system.
00:33:11They don't necessarily have to be French,
00:33:13but they do have to have come through a French club.
00:33:18Well, increasingly there are plenty of South Africans
00:33:21coming up here and doing their time in the academies.
00:33:23Of course, producing so much talent down there
00:33:26and they can't cater to all of it.
00:33:28So, you know, for the cost of three years,
00:33:31a lot of these South African players
00:33:33will have a couple of bites at the cherry,
00:33:34perhaps playing for France or playing for South Africa.
00:33:39Ironically, once he came up with one of their best performances
00:33:41without them against Toulouse,
00:33:43but Toulouse are answering back here.
00:33:44And they this time have got the try down,
00:33:47and this time the referee can see it clearly.
00:33:50And it's David Aino by the looks of it.
00:33:54But we'll get that checked.
00:33:59It's one of the two hookers, it looks like it's Malvaca.
00:34:03Marchant threw the ball,
00:34:04but Malvaca, of course, will be used to in the role of Hooker
00:34:08getting in and getting his hands on the ball
00:34:10and driving that more from the back.
00:34:16There he is there. He's got it.
00:34:18He's third from the back, really,
00:34:20but they had enough control and enough weight on
00:34:23for it to be easily managed.
00:34:27So the try to Malvaca.
00:34:28Marchant might have expected to get his hands on the ball there
00:34:31after throwing the ball to the line out.
00:34:35Yeah, it's definitely a cheats blowing out night for Racing fans.
00:34:40Blair Kinghorn has taken over the kicking duties.
00:34:43He didn't enjoy it last time.
00:34:48That's better.
00:34:5066 points to three.
00:34:54And the kicking has been perfect all night.
00:34:57Great moment to dip out for Roman Intimac.
00:35:00He had, what does that mean?
00:35:02He had eight from eight on the conversions
00:35:04and one penalty from one.
00:35:05So nine out of nine.
00:35:06And now Kinghorn's got one out of one as well.
00:35:10And that matches Thomas Ramos in terms of metronomic ability,
00:35:16which ironically Intimac didn't have,
00:35:18which is why Ramos takes him in the first place.
00:35:20Yes, Ramos has been traditionally a much better kicker.
00:35:24Yan Roubaix, who's the head of the LNR.
00:35:28Exactly.
00:35:28Next to Didier Lacroix, who's the head of Toulouse.
00:35:33Used to be a president, of course, of Lyon.
00:35:40Roubaix, that is, not Lacroix.
00:35:50Next to Scrum.
00:35:52Two racing with 10 minutes ago or so.
00:35:57ZEU!
00:36:04Carbono.
00:36:07Two is over, well brought down by Entimac.
00:36:12Roman Taffa-Fanua banging his way into the 22 Jordan Joseph still going nearly
00:36:22there Rassing looking for their first try of the game and this is the closest
00:36:26they've been to it all the game Jordan Joseph goes over and finally the light
00:36:32blue and white breach the Toulouse try line to muted applause from their fans
00:36:39who have been worn down in this game
00:36:45the first time they've strung together more than say three quality phases
00:36:51Rassing they use their big runners the last of those was Jordan Joseph gets the
00:36:57ball away to Boudon who got very very close to the line and he almost bubbled
00:37:03that into a knock on Joseph but they took the conversion quickly racing back to
00:37:08halfway to hope for perhaps eight converted tries in the last 10 minutes to bring them
00:37:14equal but at least it gives them a reward for for their efforts tonight and
00:37:22and maybe they could even go to the end of the game and say we had the last word
00:37:25Jordan Joseph scored three tries in his opening four appearances of the season but this is his first try since
00:37:31then
00:37:35we had a big ankle injury against Toulouse in the defeat against the back at the end of November
00:37:45okay
00:37:45finora is getting a bit of trauma and not surprised
00:37:50hard night big man a lot of running lot of work lot of energy
00:37:57And all of that made even more difficult when you are not on top of your game as Nathan Hughes
00:38:02comes back on again.
00:38:04Yeah, it's a lot of chasing shadows when Toulouse put it together.
00:38:07And so for those big guys to get around the field and have to try and make tackles, be agile,
00:38:12get back up in the defensive line, plug a gap.
00:38:15Spiderman now getting in the way.
00:38:21Where's the referee going?
00:38:22Who's going to tell Spiderman to go away a bit?
00:38:28Well, there's no hydration breaks, say, in the rugby, but it's a night when you could have justified having them.
00:38:39Roman Taffer for Neuer, I think they spotted him doing those exercises on the far side and they decided that
00:38:45they better bring him off for a bit of a break.
00:38:49So the gap down to 56 points.
00:38:52I think that's when he's behind the floor.
00:38:54He was behind the floor.
00:38:54He was behind the floor.
00:39:02He was behind the floor.
00:39:06Now trying to get through the floor.
00:39:10Well, there you go, told me to go.
00:39:11Well, there you go!
00:39:13Here we go!
00:39:20Good little turn inside.
00:39:22which is why he was allowed to carry on.
00:39:24It stopped him though, because he was almost through, Carboneau, Cern,
00:39:28too close to James, and that allows the tackles to come in,
00:39:31and they've ripped it away, Verge.
00:39:33And the speed will suddenly pick up, kick over the top from Blair Kinghorn.
00:39:39Good kick, Cern.
00:39:41Oh, he's decided to take it on with three players around him.
00:39:45That's brave.
00:39:47And a maul called.
00:39:50One warning.
00:39:52And I do not know, I mean, that's desperation.
00:39:56But attacking when you're on your own is brave,
00:40:00and then there's a foolhardy.
00:40:04Mathieu Pastoreau watching on in the stands.
00:40:07Legend of the game.
00:40:09Here's the rip.
00:40:10Back to the common theme tonight of nothing really going Russing's way.
00:40:14Now, that hasn't produced the 50-point-plus margin, but...
00:40:19But it hasn't really, and again, another one, you know,
00:40:21you've got a split second there to make a decision.
00:40:23Cern probably not wanting to give the ball back,
00:40:27or definitely not wanting to just give the ball back to Toulouse.
00:40:30Best he could have hoped for was probably a line-out somewhere around halfway.
00:40:34And that just gives Toulouse another platform from which to attack.
00:40:38So, you can see why he did it, just didn't have any support with him.
00:40:41And Toulouse very, very quickly onto it to wrap him up.
00:40:45Flexion!
00:40:46That's the road there, he never played for Russing,
00:40:49but he did play for St. Forte for a few years,
00:40:52so he might want to stay in his seat until tomorrow.
00:40:54And they take on Montpellier.
00:40:57Off the back.
00:41:00Come Toulouse again, and that's Gorg.
00:41:03Grau almost inevitable, is it?
00:41:07Oh!
00:41:08Well, they're teasing Russing.
00:41:11Kinghorn out wide.
00:41:12Kabutza back inside and scores!
00:41:15Another new scorer for Toulouse tonight.
00:41:19And 70 points.
00:41:22Plus for the champions.
00:41:27Well, even when it goes wrong, it goes right for Ortolouse.
00:41:32Yeah, you took the words out of my mouth, Angus.
00:41:34I mean, from the first trip-up run from Malvaca,
00:41:37who's playing in it at number eight,
00:41:39through to the bobble from Intermac,
00:41:41the flick pass that went to no one.
00:41:43Kinghorn about to be tackled.
00:41:45But Kapuolto finally, the quick feet and the quicker acceleration
00:41:50still brings the same result.
00:41:55No more paper to write these scores on.
00:42:04Intermac has enjoyed tonight.
00:42:05He's back on again.
00:42:10But it's Blair Kinghorn who is going to continue the kicking.
00:42:13This is a tough one for him.
00:42:15And it's the first kick that we've seen not on target
00:42:18all evening for Toulouse.
00:42:21And you'd have to say, knowing the culture of a team,
00:42:24he will be copying it from Intermac.
00:42:27Got left with a 100% record.
00:42:29And Kinghorn first miss of the night.
00:42:39So, 71-10.
00:42:4161 points, the difference between these two sides.
00:42:46And it has looked it.
00:42:50Sometimes you feel that a team has been hardly done by by the scoreline,
00:42:55but you can't really say that Rassing have deserved anything else
00:42:59than what they've got this evening.
00:43:00It's Leno.
00:43:02Tupu.
00:43:03Back the other way by Carbono.
00:43:06Better.
00:43:09Rabotumada.
00:43:10Breaks one tackle.
00:43:11Almost breaks two.
00:43:12Almost up to the five metre line.
00:43:14That's great work.
00:43:15They need support, but I don't think they really feel like running anymore,
00:43:17the Rassing players.
00:43:19Cern plays Scrum half.
00:43:22Escobar.
00:43:23Carbono.
00:43:24Back on his feet once more.
00:43:25They feed it out to Jordan Joseph, the only scorer.
00:43:29Over the top from Cern.
00:43:30Brilliantly taken by Matt Spring.
00:43:33Well, that is a measure of how good he has been this season.
00:43:37The man full of skills.
00:43:40It's nothing that the merest of consolations,
00:43:43but it's a good try from Rassing.
00:43:53It's certainly an interesting try from Rassing.
00:43:55They had to go through quite a bit to eventually get that out to Max Spring.
00:44:00Quick conversion again, but not as quick this time, Hugo Cern.
00:44:05Yeah, the comeback's not really on, is it?
00:44:06They may now be conceding almost, but Teddy Tomah had come up and read that,
00:44:11but beautiful skill out wide from Spring.
00:44:13The trap, patience to wait for it to bounce up, not rush it too much.
00:44:18Good kick under pressure as well from Cern.
00:44:21And the best view there, just reclining on the grass.
00:44:25It'd be a better view, of course.
00:44:26We'd be feeling a lot better if there wasn't a 54-point gap at the moment.
00:44:35Palindromic scoreline, Angus.
00:44:37Yes, indeed.
00:44:3871-17.
00:44:41With 77 minutes and 11 seconds on the clock there for a second.
00:44:45It's like Bobton, isn't it?
00:44:46And now 77-17 the scoreline, or the clock.
00:44:52I think I will give up on the sevens and ones now.
00:44:54Here's Hughes.
00:44:55Toulouse.
00:44:57Who finds a hole.
00:45:01And he's pulling.
00:45:02Four to a close along with him.
00:45:04Not many manage to do that.
00:45:06Manu.
00:45:08Can't catch out Toulouse though, even now they are still concentrating.
00:45:12Even if they have conceded a couple of tries.
00:45:17Wunder couldn't help thinking that they would want to save their energy now,
00:45:21because they know they'll be in the final.
00:45:24Jordan Joseph.
00:45:25Paul Graul doing his best.
00:45:26It's Arch Capuzzo, who judo styles him to the ground.
00:45:30Volley by Spring.
00:45:31Almost through again, but the referee's going to bring them back for the knock-on.
00:45:34Oh.
00:45:38The red.
00:45:41Looking not bad, Racing with the support there.
00:45:45Of course, tied legs from Toulouse because they've spent a lot of time tonight
00:45:50running into the... Racing 22 and across the goal line at speed.
00:45:54And then getting back to the halfway all the time, all the way back to the far end for the
00:45:57kick-off.
00:45:58So, maybe just a bit leg-weary.
00:46:03Racing, it'll be obviously deflating to see the scoreline tonight.
00:46:07But as I said, they're not the first to have suffered this from Toulouse.
00:46:11And to make this semi-final in a competition as gruelling and as competitive as the top 14
00:46:20is still an achievement.
00:46:42And to make this semi-final, it's a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a
00:46:44bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of
00:46:44a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit
00:46:44of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a
00:46:44bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of
00:46:44a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit
00:46:44of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a
00:46:44bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of
00:46:44a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit
00:46:44of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a
00:46:45bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of
00:46:54It's the 8th, it's the 8th!
00:46:59It's the 8th!
00:47:00It's the 8th!
00:47:01We go low, Danny, low!
00:47:04Direction!
00:47:06Well, this is comfortably the biggest ever win in a top 14 semi-final.
00:47:1771 points scored, the biggest margin of victory.
00:47:22It has been impressive from start to finish, pretty much, by Toulouse,
00:47:28with the little couple of minutes at the beginning.
00:47:31But as the final whistle goes, Paul Growl heads it into the crowd,
00:47:38and Toulouse makes a statement of intent,
00:47:41looking for a fourth title in a row for the first time since the 1990s.
00:47:49Tries galore, overwhelming power, speed, precision, as Toulouse make it into the final,
00:47:55as they win 71 points to 17 against a racing side that went one match too far.
00:48:05Didier Lacroix comes down and congratulates his players.
00:48:11That was an astonishing demonstration by Toulouse.
00:48:16everybody talking about those defeats they had towards the end of the season,
00:48:20but when it comes down to when it comes down to it,
00:48:24Ugo Moller knows how to manage a season,
00:48:27and he has just proved it emphatically here,
00:48:30against Racing, who were one of the form sides of the run-in to the regular season.
00:48:37It's a fantastic way for Toulouse to blow out the cobwebs after missing a week,
00:48:42and they'll probably feel that they've got more in them.
00:48:46No, it wasn't a perfect display.
00:48:48It was an unbelievable display and a comprehensive one.
00:48:51But without Thomas Ramos as well.
00:48:54Such is their approach that they will be ruthless with themselves,
00:48:58that man in particular, around performing even better next week.
00:49:06What about the kicking performance from Roman Entermach?
00:49:09A man who's usually in the shadow of Ramos, both for the club and country,
00:49:13but that was sensational tonight from him.
00:49:16Some of those kicks, as hard as they get,
00:49:18albeit in perfect kicking conditions.
00:49:21Yes, it was. He looked very, like I said at one point,
00:49:24I think he looked very relaxed with his swing.
00:49:26He's doing something different from what I remember.
00:49:30I mean, we haven't, we've seen the brilliance of Entermach
00:49:33working alongside Dupont, guiding a team around the field
00:49:35in his own individual brilliance,
00:49:37but haven't seen a lot of them goal-kicking, have we, in recent years.
00:49:45So, something he's been working on,
00:49:46and it looked like obviously it worked well tonight.
00:49:49Let's talk to Maxime Boudon then.
00:49:53So, did you pay the penalty for having to fight so hard to get into the playoffs,
00:49:59or were they that good to lose?
00:50:02Well, yes.
00:50:04We did a little bit of fatigue, but it's not really an excuse.
00:50:08I don't think there's an excuse.
00:50:09We can't hide behind anything today.
00:50:15Individually, we weren't really at our best.
00:50:18And there's no excuse for that.
00:50:20We're very disappointed today.
00:50:24Can you find any positives after that defeat?
00:50:29After everything else, can you use what's happened this season to take you forward?
00:50:32When we shoot like that in the mid-finals, it's pretty good.
00:50:35When I'm like that in the semi-final, not really.
00:50:37We can't necessarily go any further.
00:50:38But looking further ahead.
00:50:42We'll have a good end to the season, but it's just disappointing today.
00:50:47Well, we'll have to keep on going whatever happens, but, you know, we're just disappointed today.
00:50:53Julian Mavaka.
00:50:55That was the perfect match, really, wasn't it?
00:50:59Can you talk to us about your preparation?
00:51:04And how you perfectly put into the operation your game plan.
00:51:10Well, we played the rugby we wanted to play today.
00:51:13In other words, quick ball, quick play, going forward.
00:51:18And everybody was incredible.
00:51:24They really set things up for us to keep the score going.
00:51:29And it was a complete performance by the whole team.
00:51:35And we'll leave later to get ready for the next game.
00:51:43So you now have the possibility of matching the generation of the 1990s,
00:51:48with four victories in the Top 14 finals.
00:51:53Yeah, I'm not going to talk about that now after this game.
00:51:55We'll have to recover first.
00:52:00And the goal now is to recover.
00:52:02Look forward to what's next.
00:52:05And we'll take a look at the other two teams.
00:52:08Yeah, of course we're going to watch the game.
00:52:12Well, why wouldn't you?
00:52:14I hope you'll be watching it at home as well.
00:52:15I know you'll be watching it here with Robbie tomorrow.
00:52:17I don't want to imagine how long those guys spend watching line-outs.
00:52:21My goodness.
00:52:23Every day of the week, line-outs, line-outs, line-outs.
00:52:26All scrubs.
00:52:28There's something special about line-outs for them, I think.
00:52:30They see it as some sort of ballet.
00:52:32It's a scenario that we've never known.
00:52:34We're able to do it two times.
00:52:36It's where we see the big team.
00:52:38The next match will be the most difficult.
00:52:40So we're preparing.
00:52:41Bravo to you.
00:52:41So it's incredible what you have just done.
00:52:44What we've seen just there.
00:52:46And we now have another match to go for.
00:52:47We didn't have an interview with Hugo Moller.
00:52:49But that was interesting.
00:52:51To be able to catch him on the microphone of the Spider Cam.
00:52:55Yeah, I think that's good.
00:52:56I think, you know, you've got to take the time to enjoy an experience like this.
00:52:59There are plenty of times you get disappointed.
00:53:01Maybe not for to lose.
00:53:02But, you know, you live through that disappointment of losing.
00:53:07So to win a match like this, you've got to take the time.
00:53:10Enjoy it with your mates.
00:53:12It's the base of the game, after all, playing footy with your mates.
00:53:14And a good performance deserves to be recognised.
00:53:16So even though they all know that they're going to get back into work from tomorrow
00:53:20and prepare strongly, this is why you play the rugby for the pleasure of this kind of a result.
00:53:25But you notice the measured celebration.
00:53:27This is not their goal.
00:53:29So often you see wild celebrations, particularly in playoff games when teams win.
00:53:34And this was just like, yep, business done.
00:53:37But this is not why we're here.
00:53:39Yes.
00:53:39And at the same time, though, you can overdo the right guys, you know, forget about that game.
00:53:44Now it's gone.
00:53:45We're really going to work hard.
00:53:46You know, we're going to try and focus on the negative stuff and get better.
00:53:49That's too far the other way, you know.
00:53:51And I think just, you know, having a moment, really enjoy yourselves, presumably on a bus back to Toulouse.
00:53:58I wouldn't think they'll be, well, who knows.
00:54:00They'll be having a good time amongst themselves anyway with the view that eight days' time they've got the thing
00:54:06they've been aiming for all season.
00:54:11Well, we have an interview with the player of the match just around the corner.
00:54:17Who's your pick?
00:54:18Who would I pick?
00:54:19Willis.
00:54:20Willis.
00:54:20Yeah, it's got to be, isn't it?
00:54:22I mean, he was in absolutely everything.
00:54:24He had so many fingers in pies.
00:54:26There was no pie left.
00:54:27They'll be getting more used to giving it to English.
00:54:28I mean, I think in days gone by, they would have avoided that.
00:54:31But just having a look to see whether or not we can see Jack Willis going around.
00:54:37I mean, look at the non-playing guys there in their kit.
00:54:39There's Bai and there's Paul Cost.
00:54:43Yes, they have superstars.
00:54:46Saito.
00:54:46Saito, who played his final game last week, or the week before last.
00:54:52Not involved today, but he heads back to Japan next season with the World Cup round the corner.
00:54:59Yep.
00:54:59There's Colombo there, who was listed originally, as you said, but...
00:55:06Crammel.
00:55:08They have several really good hookers.
00:55:11Oh, I can't imagine the touch rugby they're about to play now.
00:55:15Try and get through their work, try and avoid the strength and conditioning guys.
00:55:19We want to put you through more difficult, more arduous exercises,
00:55:23but the boys probably just want to get out and move the ball around.
00:55:26Kevin Gorg there must be lapping it up this season after the struggles he had with illness last season.
00:55:32It ruined what was a very already promising career.
00:55:36But he hasn't missed a beat this season.
00:55:39Number 21 there.
00:55:41Four to lose, just 22 years old.
00:55:45Play of the match has taken a while to get in front of the cameras.
00:55:50Manuel Meafu, what a few weeks it's been for him.
00:55:55The partner had another baby.
00:55:57He had some paternity leave so that he could go and be with the family.
00:56:01Comes back in again, scores a try, leads his team.
00:56:07Probably had his first decent sleep of the week too last night.
00:56:10Yes.
00:56:11Well, you'd know.
00:56:18So Toulouse have done the job.
00:56:20Racing will have to go away and lick their wounds.
00:56:23And we will talk to Jack Willis.
00:56:25Of course he's the player of the match.
00:56:28We had the impression the match was easy with the intensity that you came up with.
00:56:33Yeah, it was a big score perhaps.
00:56:40But we trained well for two weeks before this game.
00:56:45And we know that they had a tough match racing against Poe last week.
00:56:51And so we hit them with as much intensity as we could.
00:56:55And it worked.
00:56:57What do you think of this Velodrome?
00:57:02Well, was it an atmosphere that pushed you?
00:57:05Yeah, it's an incredible stadium.
00:57:07We have lots of good memories here already.
00:57:13So it's nice to be back here again.
00:57:16How do you keep this level, this high level going?
00:57:22You are always jackling.
00:57:25You always make the difference.
00:57:31Well, there's no real secret, but actually there is a secret.
00:57:33You always have to train with a high level group like the one I'm with.
00:57:39And we always want to progress.
00:57:41And I know that with the forwards we have, the back row forwards we have,
00:57:51that we just have to keep the highest level we can.
00:57:56Well, from the evasion of the public, you're pretty much half French now.
00:58:01Oh, I don't know about that.
00:58:03But I'm enjoying myself here in France.
00:58:06Well, his French is pretty good.
00:58:08And it's one of the reasons I think why now he can be the captain,
00:58:11even when Antoine Dupont is there.
00:58:13He's a leader, not just by his actions, but also by what he does on the pitch.
00:58:18Leading by example.
00:58:19And you can see there's so many tries they had to reduce the font
00:58:22to be able to get them all on.
00:58:25Incredible.
00:58:26And more importantly, the conversions, Angus.
00:58:28We know they're more important than the tries.
00:58:30Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:58:30Speaks to a former fly-half, obviously, yes.
00:58:34And we normally agree with you, but I think if they'd missed all of the conversions,
00:58:37they would have still been all right tonight.
00:58:38I think the kicks were an even smaller font.
00:58:40There we go.
00:58:42Yeah, but it was a good display from both kickers tonight,
00:58:44particularly given that the first-choice kicker foot-to-lose wasn't on the field,
00:58:49but it was just dominance throughout and a great platform for everybody
00:58:53to be able to bring their skills.
00:58:55I'm surprised that Rassing got 34% of the possession.
00:58:58He certainly didn't feel like it.
00:58:59I think at the end of the first half it would have been more in favour of Toulouse even.
00:59:02But they came back and had a bit of time with it,
00:59:05but that's a lose defence.
00:59:06We talk about their attack.
00:59:08Yes, they conceded a couple of consolation tries, perhaps, to Rassing,
00:59:10but their defence is well organised.
00:59:13The communication, I think, is one of their greatest strengths,
00:59:16along with the abundant talent throughout the group.
00:59:18But their communication, which allows them to really revel in the support play
00:59:25and excel in support play.
00:59:26Well, let's take a look then at the action and beginning of the second half.
00:59:31Kevin Gorg, who had spent the whole of last season out with an illness
00:59:34to his circulatory system, has been charging back into form
00:59:38in his first full campaign as a Toulouse player.
00:59:43Already well ahead at the half.
00:59:4638 points to three.
00:59:47That was only a couple of minutes into the second half.
00:59:50And Toulouse showed no signs that they were going to take their foot off of the accelerator.
00:59:54And Lavelle was the next to go over.
00:59:57Beating the challenges.
00:59:58One, two, three, four, stretch, try.
01:00:06Marshall encouraged the forwards to come and join him and then took it on his own.
01:00:11And we haven't got time to show really many...
01:00:14Well, Marshall thought he was going to get another try here until his hooking buddy,
01:00:18Pietro Malvaca decided to get in there in front of him and went over.
01:00:22What a great drive.
01:00:23Well organised, well orchestrated.
01:00:25Quite enjoying seeing them both on together, actually,
01:00:27because I don't think I've seen that before.
01:00:28I think Malvaca loved playing at number eight.
01:00:30Here was where Russing finally got themselves across the try line.
01:00:35Much to their enjoyment of their long-suffering supporters tonight.
01:00:39And it was Jordan Joseph Angus.
01:00:41Yeah, I don't think anybody fancies getting in his way, to be quite honest with you.
01:00:45And then he was in the way.
01:00:46However, Kevin Gorg set up the next try for France.
01:00:50Little Sestera there from Entomac because he couldn't collect it the right way.
01:00:54But Kinghorn out wide and Oskapuzzo supermanning it across the try line
01:01:00to continue the onslaught of tries.
01:01:05If I'm right, every try tonight scored by a different player
01:01:08because the second try by Toma was ruled out.
01:01:12Little kick by Cern over the top.
01:01:15Beautiful footwork from Max Spring who has been one of the players of the season.
01:01:22Wonderfully elegant, skillful player out on the wing or at full-back.
01:01:27Just came a little too late and had too little effect.
01:01:30Patrice Colazzo knows that it's been a successful season.
01:01:34It's ended on a sour note after defeat to Hugo Moller's Toulouse.
01:01:38But there's still plenty to build on for them next season.
01:01:41But Toulouse, they know that they have one more game between them and Immortality.
01:01:49So the Stade Velodrome empties for tonight, but a different set of supporters will be back tomorrow
01:01:59when Montpellier, who beat Stade Francais to second place in the regular season,
01:02:05will take them on for a place in the final.
01:02:07And the honour, if you can call it that, of taking on Jack Willis and the defending three-time champions.
01:02:19They need some big ropes in rugby, don't they, to keep them back?
01:02:25Wonderful evening.
01:02:27Toulouse, the only team of the six that have qualified for the playoffs
01:02:30and also reached the final phase in the 2024-25 season.
01:02:34The only bit of continuity from last season.
01:02:38Everybody else didn't make it in.
01:02:41And, of course, Stade Francais and Rassing did make it in the year before last,
01:02:46but both had terrible seasons last time around.
01:02:48And it's the metronomically high consistency of Toulouse that sets them apart from everybody else.
01:02:59Freddie Michalak, star in his time for Toulouse and for Rassing.
01:03:04Now he's part of the Rassing coaching set-up.
01:03:10Oh, and here, if anyone will, there's Alexandre Roumaat's father, Olivier Roumaat,
01:03:15former French Locke.
01:03:19So that's it then from Andrew Mertens and me, Angus Trood.
01:03:21Come back to us tomorrow for the second semi-final.
01:03:57I'm actually going to spend an hour off.
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