Rugby predictions

Perfect at home, beaten on every trip. Clermont host a Bordeaux-Begles side that scores for fun at Chaban and can’t buy a win on the road 🏉 Saturday night at Marcel-Michelin, here’s our read.

One win in five, a 28-0 hiding and a director of rugby gone. Toulon welcome a Racing side that’s quietly found its feet 🏉 Saturday at Mayol, and the prices don’t tell the whole story.

Perfect at home, pointless on the road. Stade Francais host last season’s finalists, who just put 28 unanswered points on Toulon 🏉 Saturday afternoon in Paris, and we’re going against the grain.

Section Paloise vs Stade Rochelais: 122 points against 61, two wildly different approaches The numbers set the tone straight away: Section Paloise have scored 122 points across three rounds, Stade Rochelais 61. Exactly double, from the same number of matches. That attacking gap shapes the whole read on this fourth round. Pau host on Saturday…

USAP vs Union Bordeaux-Begles: the league leaders in points difference head to Aimé-Giral without their fly-half Union Bordeaux-Begles have the best points difference in the league after three rounds as they head into their clash with USAP, sitting on +53. No one else in the top flight has done better, not even LOU with three…

Stade Francais Paris vs LOU Rugby : 54 points against 139, a huge attacking gap in round 4 The weakest attack in the Top 14 hosts the best: 54 points scored by Stade Francais, 139 by LOU Rugby. That is an 85-point chasm in just three games. The meeting takes place at Stade Jean-Bouin on…

ASM Clermont vs Castres Olympique: 8 points with no bonus against 5 points and a defence that keeps cracking Castres sit seventh with 8 points, and they have not picked up a single bonus point so far this season. Every point they have comes from straight wins, which tells you plenty about how the Tarn…

Racing 92 vs Aviron Bayonnais: the two leakiest defences in the Top 14 go head to head 122 points shipped by Racing 92, 120 by Aviron Bayonnais: the two softest defences in the Top 14 meet on the same afternoon. Between them, they have coughed up 242 points in six matches. The clash is set…

RC Toulon vs RC Vannes: three defeats, three bonus points and a full-blown emergency at Mayol Toulon are the only Top 14 side to pick up a bonus point in each of their three defeats. Three games, three losses, three points on the board anyway. That odd little twist leaves RCT 13th, just above RC…