JAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN

Promotion and relegation matters returned firmly to the forefront of Top 14 rugby minds, after bottom side Biarritz lost 45-17 at home to 12th-placed Toulon. The struggling club’s president Jean-Baptiste Aldige has been doing a fair bit of post-match media duty in recent weeks, standing in for his coaching staff. He made a stark admission after that latest loss – their 15th of the season: “We don’t have a foot-and-a-half, but two feet in ProD2. A dream has faded. We will try to enjoy, to the full, the two months that are left....