JAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN

Castres Olympique hooker Gaetan Barlot scored his third Top 14 try of the season yesterday, scoring a personal point in a selection skirmish within the wider home derby battle against near rivals and defending champions Toulouse.
It was the long-awaited ‘Fan Days’ derby weekend in the French topflight before the competition takes a two-week break for European competitions. And – five weeks from the end of the regular season – it was a weekend the league caught fire, as sides on the wrong side of the sixthplace cut-off point cl...