MUCH talk recently about salary cap-hampered English clubs being disadvantaged when they took on the big spenders of the Top 14 in Europe, in which case I would point to the heartening example of little Aurillac, a small town of barely 25,000 souls in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
ProD2 side Aurillac are rated, by Midi Olympique, as having the 27th biggest budget of all the professional clubs in France and therefore have to run the tightest of ships. But despite that they’ve only gone and won the French Espoir championship beating mighty Toulouse 37-26 in the final at...