France Top 14 Rugby 2023/24
Final
28/06/2024
Toulouse vs Bordeaux Begles – Full Match Rugby
Stade Toulousain vs Union Bordeaux Begles
Union Bordeaux Bègles (UBB Rugby)
Top 14 Final
you know to be honest you know this is great this is just it’s all been set up perfectly everything’s going swimmingly you saw the brenus you saw the giant brenis but you just see you know that how much excitement there is around this final this is not a final that we’re familiar with ubb we’ve never experienced this this brings a whole different dimension not just the fans but the players they’re coming into Uncharted Territory and they’re embracing every single second but they haven’t had too many rest days and that could be quite an important element that comes into 1880 minutes to come what a view the Mediterranean in the background the Cathedral of s Charles up there as well on the [Applause] Hill football is usually the religion [Applause] here rugby though certainly draws them in as well these are the moments you remember for a lifetime lunic K who had to give up playing when he was 15 because of a massive accident to his neck couldn’t become a coach he said because he was too young so became a referee instead and he will be the referee tonight somewhat surprising with mat coming to the end of his career but it’s a first for him he blows a whistle and Uno bordo B kick off their first Top Cat final and they might have got in here to turn the ball over the balls out no no no in goes Maxim luku trying to get that ball back be ber will have to play the scrum half in the meantime and that is a terrific start by the first timers the man that everybody regards as The Outsiders tonight against the big favorites too who’ve been there before done it plenty of times even this generation the to way has worked all the way since the early 80s Uno bord o b who only came into being in 2011 when they came up to the Top Flight having been form five years earlier when CA bag and stad Borday came together two teams that themselves had found success indeed against toou in finals in the past Bordeaux as a town has yet to lose a final against too however this is a very different way of being and here comes to lose the ball ripped away two turn early on in the game and a minute in Damen penno what a fantastic season he’s had in his first campaign since arriving from Claremore 14 tries in top Catos and he could well go again here wonderful assist from him at the end of that magnificent backs move that was pretty much the only one we saw in the semi-finals and Lou V who has become one of the star performers of the French Nationals side now one of the galacticos of this back line gets in and gets the ball away yeah and there’s that first turnover we just saw the pressure from be it was a really good kick hung up there a long time off the kickoff and a turnover bordo looking pretty good and looking a bit potent but of course to lose they get a turnover and they look every bit as lethal good first line out from too and tomor goes down and Jack Willis picks it up he’s had three injuries this season as Jack Willis but it’s a measure of just how hard he goes in to contact he has had a magnificent time since he arrived first when he was an England player he no longer qualifies for them of course but he was so good for too they instantly gave him a contract extension and he’s loving his time down here in the south of France or the Southwest dupal in and out of the too side because of his commitment to the France sevens in which he’ll be going to the Olympic Games we might well see him again in the in the shorter version of the game good run ENC missed the world cup with an injury he’s had a very abrid season because of that Aki who scored a try last week in that debilitating defeat for larell again whom to’s been in last year’s final and in the 2021 Edition as well tibo Flamel well hung on to by tovita tatfu the tongen born Japanese International and Blair Kling horn is forced to run it into touch he’s another man who’s had a magnificent first season for to lose who would have thought he would have been the main kicker in the Champions Cup Final well look at the the beauty that you see of dupong everyone expected him to box kick all he did was take a couple of steps take out the first Defender and feed Jack Willis and up till that last pass I was going to say too looked every bit like they’re finding space and looking for space and reacting well looking very dangerous still early days of course and both sides feeling one another out but plenty to inuse about already mavi already gasping for air but it doesn’t stop him taking the line out very successfully indeed here they come the big battering ram to tapu gets a couple of extra meters after contact out by Jal bear into the path of yurin MAF there are plenty of French International teammates on opposing sides tonight [Applause] luku another of them over the top by jaly bear he’s overcooked that though back it comes from Thomas Ramos into space as well well I think maybe he might have been looking for the 5022 but he got a bit of a bad bounce but it’s still a massive kick forward as matis lebel watches on from the sidelines deprived his place in this final because of an injury picked up last weekend here’s this first run from Tatu got over the advantage line he really targeted Interac Big Man on a much smaller man although inter’s not shy either and something of a perplexing decision there from Jal there to go to touch just maybe to keep to lose on the back foot and not risk it but uh certainly backf fired Maxim l two tries in the semi-final from men left but that not gone well from the lineup picked off my Patu moaka that is not where you want to give to lose the ball out by D Roman entan tries to cut back inside and the fly half is cut down to size held on almost the ball out to Ramos back the other way into the path of for close one of a many who were involved in the grand slam of 2022 with a number of teammates on both sides of the ball tonight Ramos short pass Ramos takes it dupa short ball second row tibo flammer almost through dupal trying to get there dupal reaching and the too scrum H gets the first try six minutes exactly into the final the ball given away there by Uno Boro bag and they were made to pay although we will go up to the TMO for verification I’m assuming about grounding maybe a forward pass let’s see then what they’re going to be looking at they’re talking about Foul Play in there as [Applause] well one is for sure and that is that the skills and vision of Anan dupong are absolutely extraordinary he was instrumental to that entire surge forward from too that was the one I wondered might have been a Ford pass even but they they’re looking obviously at sau’s height of his tackle I thought that was forward to chobis so it looks like if they’re looking at Bordeaux the TR is going to be given and it’s just a matter of whether they go back to to take a more severe line on this well it’s a big hit no doubt about on Santiago charez I think that was Ford too but well this was the uh the move for this is after they’d given the ball away don’t forget he’s rising up well a red card this early in the game would be absolutely disastrous for bordo I thought he started low and was sliding up so I’d like to think that first Contact was on the shoulder it is what it is but in the context of the [Applause] match well a big relief for not just tfu but also for unon bordo so they still have to go 10 minutes with 14 men but it could have been a lot worse it could have been 10 men with uh with to Lo with their tails up and the ability to accelerate the game when they sense a weakness is dangerous time they could easily put two or three tries in this period I still believe that pass was forward I can’t believe it wasn’t looked at and it wouldn’t have changed the result of the yellow card but they wouldn’t have been sitting there watching six and seven points go through now well Eric gzar is our TMO tonight as Ramos puts through the first kick of the night and it’s seven points to nothing to the 20 22 time Top Cats Champions thanks to Antoine dupon well he took off three or four times this is the last one he feared everybody else on the last time but he ran into about four tacklers there how he’s managed to thread that ball through keep his feet keep his balance and keep going forward is absolutely incredible it’s only his fifth try of the top cat all season and of course he set up a number of others including a hatrick of them last week against lar shell Jack Willis takes it and he’s immediately wrapped up by Adam Coleman and the referee brings things to a halt immediately there’s Ben tamuna how well is that shoulder we’re about to find out of Lucky break there for bordo because the kick wasn’t great it was a bit far in field which allowed this man Jack Willis to get a bit of a run on rather than letting be put the pressure on but still a good hit from Bordeaux ball gets CED up and definitely bonus Poss now with one man in the bin might be able to do a lot off the back of the scrum you wouldn’t think quick feed we got Charlie fala who’s actually made the trip from Orland who’s up on the big screens here what are the former Legend of course from from the All Blacks but also Chalo yes he has been a wonderful servant to the game Through The Years all black gray and of course Jerome Kano another one is now involved in the back room staff with the club [Applause] has really settled into France here come bordo B then Bastian van taer trying to get for oh a big hit out by luku Into The Blindside flanker again here come the backs this is what we want to see from un on board oeg first up Nicholas deporter the French under 20 world champion referee seen no advantage and there’s a little bit of niggles and afters there on the far side hardly surprising this is a really big night for un bordo and they’ve got to survive seven minutes with only 14 men they need to waste as much time as they can well they can take a full minute here getting the three points a real bonus for them down to 14 and up the too’s end taking the points you’d assume see Maxim luku comes across number two to Antoine dupor internationally he’s unlucky really to have uh started his career at a time when maybe one of the greatest scrum harves we’ve ever seen has come onto the [Applause] scene Blair Kinghorn making a good tackle there he’s lucky probably went back for a penalty cuz he would have been penalized there for standing up on the wrong side of the rck you can of course have a go at the ball as the tackler until such time as that R gets formed but they were very very clean on defense last week to lose very very accurate with their chop tackles or their gang tackles lot of to lose F behind that goal has no effect at all on luku though and Uno bov are on the board in their first final and did very well to improvise at the scrum too by putting V ta at number eight they got a pretty good hook and scrum stayed stable despite having a back on there so verer got off really well made some Headway you see the backr star there John batist pu on the near side the scrums coach who was the man who was actually throwing a bit of Shadow about Ben tamuna during the the week saying that he was out wasn’t going to happen he tried to push it didn’t work and then all of a sudden yesterday the bombshell came out that he was playing I guess the good thing is that in the front row you can kind of have rolling Subs a little bit under various sort of various regulations and I was convinced he wasn’t going to play when he came out quite theatrically put on his boots way before the game nicely done at the line out from to as they attack again with Peter Aki so often a number one car in first phase play at it comes to Malia Malia got two assists from antoan Deon last weekend to score against larell and he’s just had an assist from Bel I think who deflected the ball into touchd that still to lose possession they’ll get the throw of this lineup didn’t really create themselves much space very efficiently and that long ball there just let the bordo defense I know it was bros the bordo defense came across there it is there [Applause] ran BOS who was a finalist to the French espis back in 19 2018 when he was with PO number of this bordo bider looking for their first Club titles you consider the experience that they have and the talent it’s quite surprising they have a big chance tonight and they need to survive this first Jack Willis that’s not the man you want to see when you have a man down two again the pick and go coming forward in waves CR inac out wide alexand rum though absolutely flattened by the wing though BL be but it’s not going to make any difference cuz they’re going to come back it’s unbelievable the momentum that Anan well it’s not unbelievable CU you see how good he is but the momentum that he gives to L where he just decid to accelerate the game he he normally comes off that rck and targets if he’s going wide he’ll Target the second Defender so he’s skirted the first brought in the second and there are gaps around there this one he does himself and he takes out three tacklers almost including lamot still gets the ball free for for the continuity that’s a hooker that he’s uh pushing [Applause] backwards player King Horn who scored the first try of the semifinal wonderful take actually from an anine dupon pass that actually almost hit the ground too’s back room staff watching on as well saw there Jean Buu and ver LOM in charge of the forwards and in a very animated conversation with each other as Thomas Ramos steps forward the lazy swing but the laser light finish yeah not the same Ramos but the Jersey will [Applause] do and to lose here at the moment of building a solid platform which is just what unon bordo didn’t need will be the pawn that takes it this time finds Willis even when he was about to be wrapped up he still finds the Escape Route the ball the ball Ben Tammy funa told to calm down by lud care this time they’ll kick just under two minutes of the sin bin to go step back inside by buros luku out wide picked up by De Porter and he’s put a foot in [Applause] touch he did pretty well baros here I’m surprised that luku didn’t come running off look he’s taken in three Defenders there and yes luku saw Deport here out there lurking but I think there was a little bit more space if it kept coming infield which buros was trying desperately to do they can’t afford to make little mistakes like that that’s that’s a bit of an unforced error the ball going across the touch line from a position like that when they had possession boo so they’ve really got to tighten up on those sort of chances Tommy aino taler on the the bike alongside the pitch tight head prop waiting to come on in the second half 15 minutes gone to lose l 10 un bord o three un bordo actually doing reasonably okay actually considering they’re working down this yellow card if they are only seven points behind when it ends they’ll be happy and it could be better than that great little charge down and picked up by Bastian be and t tabi comes in plays scrum half baros one of the galacticos runners for this unon bordo b side but he’s brought down early oh yeah L fans thought they might have been a knock on in that but the referee has allowed play to continue luku Fe it out wide forwards take it good defense though from to lose Bing across well out by oh and it’s been dropped by tamuna it’s a hot humid night and he’s about 150 kilos it’s not easy well either he was thinking there that he was the dummy Runner or he was conscious of the defender coming outside in that would have been onto his bad shoulder certainly not saying he was flinching but he was conscious of something else there I think bam didn’t get a clean catch on it here’s dupong getting charged down now that’s twice in a couple of minutes where he’s really tried to bite off a little bit too much and the defense has got wise to them they almost got this on the counter attack counter rck to lose and here’s the the ball like I say just watching up at that front line that defensive line coming up at him Ben Tami he had a very very good Touch first touch and so if they can get the ball into his hands maybe with a one-on-one rather than running him into a brick wall of three or four Defenders would be ideal there’s Anthony jalon injured and of course the big man himself Emanuel Mayu who became a French International finally in the Six Nations earlier this year but unfortunately he got injured in the final last season and he hasn’t even made it on the pitch this time around still gets a big cheer though from the crowd real embarrassment of riches at to lose but you got to say they develop more than their fair share of players through their Academy yes they get a big catchment coming from all around the region but they come there early to learn or to lose way the skills the spirit of rugby the Excellence that they [Music] seek tupon takes it off the back of the scrub enac to Aki lovely little reverse round and to back on the move and this is the sort of thing we see from them regularly opening up the defenses trying to find the holes bord o back to a full compliment but here comes Jack Willis Jack Willis fighing the hole dup Rumer finally a French International he’s dropped the ball but the referee again is going to come back for an infringement by bordo B and by luku by the sounds of it no it’s actually by sirel cazo the second row forward too taking advantage of I think what must be a man short in that defense or was on that occasion anyway probably had a player still on the scum right at the end of that yellow card and made some easy yards and then the combination of dupong who’s always looking for Jack Willis it reminds me a little bit of the Aaron Smith Shannon frelle combination always close to one another Well Robbie down there as you see Jack Willis bursting through what’s your analysis of what you’ve seen so far I think is all about ball retention isn’t it um you know it’s a hot humid night here in marsill and and I think you just need to keep hold of the wall you bordo if they get themselves deep into territory they need to keep hold of it they need to have support players coming in to get where the players carrying forward I’ll get you back to you guys in comes the line out and a good counter push here by bordo B but to go left and start the momentum slowly in the youth game we’re getting a difference in the brought it dupon nearly drops it pulls it back in at the last moment Richie Arnold one of the men who’s been here all through this great period this latest great period of to Lou domination three brenners two Champions cups looking for a second double in three years Jack Willis a newer member but has come up very important very quickly and they push over the 5 m line dupa looking around for options here’s netti in for seral B tonight who has had surgery this week on an injury that he picked up last weekend in the semi-final out it goes m makaka is over the second driver to lose irresistible p maaka in a season when he has finally become the number one for club and Country relegating Julian Marshall to being his backup comes across the line for a fantastic score and his fifth try of this campaign in Top Cats absolutely Relentless from too the mall was well defended by Bordeaux but from then on they just tweaked one another around puppeteering almost was antoan dupong as he just launched phase after phase and look at the efforts from Malia on the outside helping Pato maaka to not be pushed over the touch line that’s that’s work great off the ball that’s invaluable a great try from moaka who’s had an incredible season since he came on three or four minutes into that first World Cup match and he’s just gone from strength to strength there was a kind of impromptu mole that turned into in the end and they got the overlap all of a sudden they had one man isolated on the outside and Uno bordo ironically now back to 15 men have now conceded the second try and this is a tough one for Thomas Ramos to try and compound the damage and he’s missed it nevertheless to lose here taking control yeah this was just the final stage of course but phase after phase before then and bordeau really being put to the test on defense so then 153 it’s already at 12-point Gap and the favorites at the moment playing like favorites and they get a decision there as well Richie Arnold coming away from that Ben tamuna is the man who gets up disappointed and so too are all the uh substitutes there on the union bordo b bench yanic Brew just looking a little bit animated a student of the too way and has brought that with him to un bord O B on coach now weaving his magic with un on Bo oy but they need to find a spell or two now in this game at the moment the Champions are dictating play another good platform TBO flam off taking that beautifully out by netti on the overlap is maaka here they come again like the waves of the Mediterranean PA Lies Over above three tries for to lose already in the game it is falling apart for Flo B and4 is on a mission he hasn’t always played this season he’s been away with the seven he’s been away at the World Cup he didn’t play the Six Nations but every time he’s come back into this to lose side he has brought that extra spark I’m absolutely speechless well I’m not I’m going to talk through it of course beautiful finish for dupong and he actually played a bit part role at the end there they had support Runners off every option there every time they knew if a player got tackled at the worst there would be someone running off and they knew exactly where a look the timing was superb that’s the beauty of dupong being such a threat previously was that when he ran wide Focus went onto him Maraka switches it back onto the inside couple of Runners there and eventually dupong pops back up again but not where he’s expected to the chip and Chase I mean you just can’t you can’t predict that but when you’ve got a player of that sort of talent you’ve got to have a fairly High hit rate he scored four tries before tonight he’s got two already in this single game he is looking at his sharpest best Ramos easier kick this time through the middle and unoo here needs to find something to put the too break on because at the moment they’re being run ragged again that’s just the end of it but what a beautiful move and beautiful timing from the support Runners so Jack Willis will take it again and again he manages to avoid the first tackle it was B Be who tried to get him down and he’s got up very gingerly indeed after that you can see in there on the left of your screen NTI the back up to siril B giving a starring rooll tonight at loose head prop dupal off the back of the caterpillar Mall looks for distance he’ll find buros buros will try to find a little bit of M magic tuna leaves with that right shoulder doesn’t get much change out of that little charge board up by Jal bear the other surprise inclusion this evening luku jeffon the former French International it’s been a while since he was in the French national side back of the 2019 World Cup and 2026 Nations and again an extra roll at the end Maxim lar just a little bit desperate to get that extra piece of advantage and all he’s managed to do is give the ball back to the Champions a little bit predictable at the moment the bordo attack just sort of oneup Runners luku is not sniping from the base like we’ve seen dupong do just to break up the defense give the defense another threat to consider so he’s just throwing it from the base a one up Runner smashing it up and that is not challenging but to L defense one bit van Clair there down at the bottom right hand screen right hand side of your screen there watching on one of the most graceful backs you’ll ever likely to see in a too or France shirt one of those former Hall of Famers for this wonderful side I thought I thought you were about to say Angus so he’s going to come on to the pitch well he’d be welcome to oh my goodness they don’t need him do they look at this off they go again up to the 5 met line without any effort at all Uno bordo just being rocked onto their heels every time to lose come forward and another scoring opportunity jeffon manages to get something in on Anton de on the board big fans scream for a knock [Applause] on well we’re seeing yanic Brew Robbie down there what’s his uh attitude being like through this first part of the game 223 down I mean it’s pretty predictable isn’t it he is not a happy man and we can just see that uh they’ve got a a man down inel he’s not looking in a good place can’t really see who it is um but yeah no looks like Big Ben it looks like Beno Muna right yeah um listen there’s animation there and of course they’re talking about what they can try and do you can’t see them making substitutions this early in the game I mean you know you want to have some kind of you know organization and fluidity it’s not the case they’re not getting ball the first time we heard the name xal you know literally since the start of the game was a moment ago those guys not getting possession so they don’t get ball attention so they can’t play It’s All About CH lose they’re just swamping them so yanc Brew is basically saying we need ball we need ball and we need to play our territory well it looks like everybody’s back on their feet again which is good news on board o time is off at the moment everybody taking a a brief breather after a frantic first 26 and2 minutes they got an inordinate amount of territory there from that line out moall to lose I want to have another look at that and see if they actually move that off the line because it seemed to me they they formed a moall without having contacted a Bordeaux player when they just shifted it to the to the inside of that line out well it’s going to be a scrum this time around as the porter looks on hoping that he’ll have a chance to come forward again at the moment though it’s all about defense for the side from the lower reaches of the gon River up against the side from the much higher climbs of the said River as it comes off the Pyrenees sort of G Derby if you like in the final a very Southwest Affair and at the moment it’s to L who are very much on top BTO needs some solidity some ball as Robbie has just told you they’ve got some here but it’s deep inside their own half luku long kick well it gets him some territory but it will hand The Possession back to too [Applause] again doesn’t be thinking about the pressure going through Ben Tammy’s right shoulder there that was a horrific looking injury a couple of weeks back here’s tatfu coming off the back and he’s well covered by Willis gets a good fend on but still Willis holds on gets some some support pretty quickly there’s that man again Z straight in there and they get him to ground quickly he was an under 20 world champion in the pass as well of course bordo had his brother in their ranks season or so again Tom Willis who before he headed back to England nicely done again andac is a ripped to the floor though by baros dul that’s a little bit long well a mistake from Anan dupon who have thought it kicks it off the back and he’ll come back for the scrum to where he kicked it from that is a collected item if ever there was one it’ll be an nft soon won’t it it’s uh it it just shows I guess that um well a he’s human but B that he’s really trying hard in this game and you know couple of little mistakes he’s made but uh I think his net result so far has been overwhelmingly positive when you look at two tries but not just that the manner in which he scored them the manner in which he’s got to lose going forward and just started picking off that bordo FR Fringe defense you saw there was a 53 on the bench with Paul Gro AR Caputo and Paul costes all watching together from the too Dugout that was that was the first time they actually played Rush defense and they came up quickly to to get into face to bring him down fence putting pressure on dupon to kick the ball so another set piece that ends very quickly it’s one of the big areas that un bordo B have got to get right tonight yeah you’re right Robbie they they got a good line there and and no surprise that uh that they know one another very well these all these Internationals but getting in line on Interac and where he was going the thing with to losers they’ll learn from that and they’ll run the same structure again maybe with two or three different options off it bailout options different adjustments they might hit the front runner chades the next time they might give it to inak who flicks back onto the the blinds side Winger that sort of thing so they learn very very quickly to lose and you just cannot rest against them well again they don’t get very far it’s a measure of how much they rely on Ben tamuna they’ve been prepared to take this risk with him the season even to see exactly at the moment how he’s standing up if he is hurting he’s not showing it well I guess for him he hyperextended the shoulder so so long as that’s strapped up and protected from going too far above kind of 180° as he puts his arm straight out to the side then you know he’s at least protected from that particular injury and then after that it’s just a a pain management thing which I know nothing about obviously some of these tough guys do a lot of rugby players will tell you that they’re never completely free of pain during a season particularly if they a for luku say changes his mind and comes back the other way here they come they’ve decided to let rip with the backs be be brilliantly stays in touch and then it’s rounded into touch immediately afterwards Thomas Ramos and Roman entac two of the flare players for too doing the Dirty Work in defense and then r decides to go early that’s risky and Sav somewhat by the referee making them come back poor old Nicola de and poor old L as well because the basic concept for a Winger is stay as wide as you can don’t cut back until the very last moment now dorer hardly got any ball last week smart defense from to lose because they left no option for be to finally cut back in and bring the ball back on the inside so they just shephered them out Malia waited for trades now they’re going to have a look at this tackle but Maria waited for trades to come across so it was perfect timing from the def yeah Eric Go’s going to come back in again now to me he was going down but it was head contact right in front of it and you know he was was flung down and there was contact with the head and that’s the reason why we’re going up to C and uh Lou didn’t react he just walk back but the fact was that he was flung down but we’ll see from the replay that there was contact well it looked to me as though there was mitigation here but we’ll see what the TMO [Applause] feels he’s waiting for it to arrive isn’t he he knows it’s coming this is dangerous for toose I think it is too because I think Malia doesn’t really lead with his shoulder for the tackle he’s gone in quite upright with his head still high B hasn’t actually changed his height too much at all you see rules out that as a mitigating Factor One Man scor twice last week in the semifinals he was certainly one of the headline acts he will not want to be the headline act here though he’s to look unflustered I think I think this will go yellow I don’t think they’ll risk I think there’s enough doubt for them here that this is genuinely a decision that should influence the match saying that might even it [Applause] up one Cruz Malia one of the generation of Argentine that enjoyed a first ever Victory sorry Andrew over New Zealand [Laughter] oh nothing given at all the heads don’t touch according to the referee Yan Brew is calling uh the eyesight specialist ug mull is suppressing a grin yes [Applause] so we keep 15 aside on the pitch which is never a bad thing I think here comes dupon then to lose escaping a bullet there 8 minutes to go until the break to L in charge 22 points to three Lou Bei looking to dodge around and is’s taken down by the big hands of fros tamuna tries to Rumble his way past tibo Flamel jalar missed pass little bit of ground made jalar again with the kick trying to get it behind Ramos Ramos quick as you like and calls the mark and we saw this in un bordo’s game last week as well in the semi final too many imprecise kicks that were not really a threat well I think that pre-planned that or or planned that I suppose is the right word pre-plan is probably a tarology I think Jal be was standing so deep he didn’t look like he was up flat to take advantage of two phases where they’ve gone forward tamea got them going forward they’ve taken a quick line out sorry Angus that’s all right buros has it another chance to attack here they need to get something before halftime three points isn’t really enough luku there another clash in there that has got the crowd murmuring baros again they’re trying to bring the backs in it’s not easy though when you’ve got a defense like to loses to try and perforate tamuna he decides to fend it off this time into tavita tatfu luku poro goes up against moaka lucu again Jal bear another missed pass Lamar turns and Fields Damian pen almost for the first time in the game with the ball in his hands in attack oh lovely play there by Abby for an open side [Music] flanker Bastian van on they’ve lost the ball great Play Again by to lose it’s what they’ve done against everybody all through the season they’re so quick into the tackle Jack’s arrived get the ball back Peno has it now buros runs into Ramos and Kinghorn so MAA has it I think he came around the side [Applause] though rock formed is what the referee is saying well Fran Ramos has had a bit of a go at the referee and I think he’s probably just a little bit embarrassed about how he got cleaned out and that rocked by puno puno gave the pass across and tried to R themselves out of trouble but after the tackle gee took a big run up at that clean out Daman puno we can hearly clearly hear the referee there saying there was no bad sportsmanship no foul play that was a great clean matis leel he can do nothing else now all of his work in the season has been done here’s the steal from Jack wellis now what to lose have been doing is they’ve actually been standing back off the after the tackle so they haven’t been committing too many numbers to the rcks so they’ve been doing that for four or five phases suddenly they pick the one moment and the one player who’s there the one who can steal Jack Willis takes that opportunity and steals well he was one of the most devastating men in the Champions Cup in that regard this season some thought he might have even got the man of the match award in the final against lster superb in that Master of the darks and to lose with another penalty and they’re stacking up against un Bor and they are not going to be able to get the platform they need if they keep on coughing up possession like that no and this is what happens when you end up just shoveling the ball across um the defense gets a good line on you and it was Roman inac who came flying through there and made the was bros wasn’t it came flying through he’s got the luxury of being able to do that because if your defense feels comfortable you can send a flyer out here it is here made the great tackle got him behind well behind the tackle line to lose the counter immediately bord going down to protect that [Applause] ball What A View From the Mediterranean night sky in this Temple of football that at the moment is enjoying Rugby’s Biggest game in France to lose at the moment giving a master class as they’ve so often done another few meters made off every point of contact on the 22 another attacking platform set D Feats it out to entac Ramos all the way across Malia this is where he scored at the end of the last game last weekend in this corner however this time holding on and finally bord o get a decision their [Applause] way it was good defense from Bel really puts his body on the line not huge amount to him compared to some of the other bulky backs you see more problems already the leg issues and somehow miraculously made this match getting treatment on the shoulder it’s ironic isn’t it with it’s Tam had the shoulder injury coming into this and he had the leg problem and now he’s having a problem with his shoulder here’s the same move again where maaka previously threw it inside to Malia this time he’s hit CH buried it didn’t get quite as much traction of course as the try the first time the good thing about to losers they only switch play if they sense as an opportunity reactive other teams you see them plan to go two phases and then switch back and it becomes very predictable to lose react to the opportunity and they have the line out that ball has been dropped out of the bat that was a bit scuffy however of course it’s tidied up by antoan dupon three tries already for to lose in the regular season of course that would mean an attacking bonus point but of course we’re well past that stage at the moment on this s cazo just told to get back on his own side by the too player with his shoulder slow ball this time for once bordo have had 63% possession in the last 10 minutes but overall to lose dominating that area manages to get their head of Malia and claims the ball for the men in white ball is almost out referee’s on the wrong side to be able to see it Bastian van talif he’s going to play scrum half to lamot who I suppose technically is playing fly half again it’s slow ball they look tired already do bordo it’s not forget they’ve had a day less to prepare for this game by virt of finishing lower down in the uh regular season oh big hit on then to ma crowd reacted to that [Music] Ruma charez has a little look around finds Ramos Flair Kinghorn goes for the kick the Scottish International is chasing after it however the sideline has beaten him what a season he’s had Andrew came across a rescue if you like from toose and has become one of their star performers yes he’s been earmarked for a long time as the Scottish number 10 of course with Finn Russell going so well he’s had to take a bit of a back seat come across here and he’s played a lot more fullback now for the last couple of weeks he’s been put on the wing probably not the most familiar position for him but such as the too game that he can have a ring commission and get involved in the play a lot we haven’t seen the ball go his way so much tonight but always a threat when he gets the ball well a really important lineup to get right here for maxim lamot they cannot afford to allow them to score again but that might just be what happens to lose over moaka trying to get the ball down has he been held up he smiles he thinks he’s grounded it and the try has been given and just as we were saying the last thing that bordo need now is to concede a try and halime that’s exactly what has happened two tries for dup and now two tries for maaka yes this was always the plan to lose always going to compete and all they needed to do was enough just to disrupt moaka was always going to be coming off the back of that line out in case of an overthrow or something like that I thought bordo had done really well to maybe get their legs under it but the referee seem to see something at the end yeah they are going to check this to make sure there is a grounding I think well the referee was right there wasn’t he he was the one who called it after about probably five or six seconds which is a long so it’s an absolute eternity in that situation or maybe they were checking if there was a knock on from to yeah rumar was the man who went up look at ruma’s hand no diabi so if that’s the reason why they’re checking it then it’s all down the grounding there was also contacts from rat with the hand on di in fact that they’re talking about now as well yeah I think that was in consequential as well to be honest touched it already I thought it looked like RAR just trying to when the ball flicked his arm it hit on diabi because they were both jumping across one another’s lines well let’s not forget that the try was given so they’ve got to find definitive proof that it didn’t get touched [Applause] down well the first really controversial moment then of the game I can’t see anything on that they’re not going to be able to disallow the tribe based on not grounding because they’ve given it I don’t think there’s going to be say that it’s close under there it’s got to be they can’t say that that’s not touching if it had not been given as a try then we would be carrying on the play immediately big smile from maaka and it doesn’t look like it’s gamesman she he looks like he thinks he’s touched that on the floor there used to be that the call from the referee too many hands on the ball doesn’t doesn’t really apply here it doesn’t matter if there other hands on the ball of the obvious guy controlling it was [Applause] malaka the army of un holding their breath that’s turning it over based on the fact they thought there was definitive proof he did not push it down wow well you can hear the course of booze from the too fans but a huge sight of relief Collective relief from un bordo beg four tries in the first half two for Dort two for maaka it’s 223 to lose lead bordo man here decided to Speed the game up and at at other times when France Ramos gets involved as well with his kicking game they just seem to suddenly find themselves down the bordo end and and bordeau must have been thinking how the heck do we get down here so that’s what they need to rule out of the game get the ball and hold on to it as well and put a bit more pressure on to lose and I think that only comes by threatening them around the fringes and going a bit more same way so then ready to go 40 minutes for unon bordo bag to find the recipe to get themselves really into this first ever final they’ve had as a union Angus I just got one stfi 49 um 49 passes he’s made dupon 37 looking just so you know for those two te I’m amazed that Luca is so close to him it’s amazing because dupon really showed just why he’s the best scrum half in the world amazing well the next touch he gets will be 50 then I guess CRS what a player he is well it’s Luke who’s going to get the first though here he needs to have the kind of influence on this game that he had last week when he was getting all the plaudits for driving unon bordo bag forward against what was the most mly defense in the regular season St France led by Paul gastard baros baros finally gets a bit of space and now he stretches away again still going as his shorts nearly rocked off by maaka oh it’s knocked forward by diabi that’s not the start they needed referee will surely aant no a avantage call to did have the ball and buros has it they’ll probably end that then it’s only a knock on Advantage buros decides to kick again straight down the throat of Thomas Ramos well this is more like the game we saw last week now a little bit of a kicking extravagant we haven’t seen very much of that from bordo so far in the game looking for the 5022 but Ramos was a cost quickly to cut it off and then he kicks it out and we’re back into the Union bordo B half yes he covered a huge amount of ground there Tomar Ramos wasn’t a bad kick from Jal be he’s a little bit unlucky with how that ball bounced at the end this is when buros started getting his run going just a little bit unlucky that he lost his feet bit there and gave moaka the chance to pull him down Yanik Brew kind of holding his breath at the moment hoping that they will do something differently however it’s tozu have it entac feeds it out into the path of charez he scored a try himself last week as well Willis quick hands flammer Willis again linking up well with dupon and again he gets that extra meter and he gets a penalty as well oh and that’s not good Ben tamuna holding on to that shoulder he’s made it through one half doesn’t look like he’s going to make it through a second and we could see Tomy aino TOA coming on sooner rather than later I’m no medical expert but I don’t think the Jabs that go in for painkillers last the whole match so there’s probably a point where that does wear off for poor old Big Ben and then all of a sudden you get all the accumulated pain from the the scrums and the the hits the tackles which must suddenly come at you when the pain killer wears off Robbie interesting interestingly said 49 passes for dupong and only 37 for luku yeah but 14 it’ be interesting to see the average distance because so many of dup’s passes are just little pop passes and they come when he’s sniping around the brides whereas luku gets in more like a classic old school halfback and is throwing the long passes out but dupong is sniping around the fringes popping the ball off left and right just the little flick passes and I suspect a huge proportion of his 49 would be those little passes rather than the longest spiral ones well Lugo bonifas looks like he’s uh likely to come on in a couple of moments as Thomas Ramos takes this penalty kick again straight down the middle and the first points of the second half are significant because they’ve gone to to [Applause] Lou two substitutions down there Robbie coming on yeah Bruce go Bona coming on so uh you’ve got a a loose head coming on and of course uh when we look in the front row you’ve got benaa who’s uh tight head yeah Pierre butcheron looks like he’s going to come on as well the back row the man who scored a try last weekend against St fron taken by moaka safely recycled [Music] back dup slow ball kick coming and it goes out baros catches it well what thought about taking the quick one and again but in the end the runs were too good and it means they’ll have to take the traditional line out instead and just look how efficient they’ve been to lose get down the end get three points start their second half count and then clear their line again really effectively Precision oh Pier m is watching on in the crowd wishing he was here probably but too long unfortunately for him long ter since being Spectators this season even though they are a team that seems to be moving kind of in the right direction that’s a great side of the last decade Oh Way Comes the big number eight toita tatfu one of the most significant Birds receiver luku quick ball mavana as he’s found the spot where he can go through not quite they close the door on him better diabi allowed to take that extra turn because he wasn’t being held luku no way around that way so backy comes the other way and he runs straight into frostwalk course oh Peno out and it’s dropped again Adam Coleman the second row forward unable to hold on to it as Ben tamui gets some more attention they cannot afford to keep on coughing up the ball like this particularly in those positions when they’re beginning to threaten some promising play here to Tapo I think did the right took the right option there to bring it back in field because he kept the momentum going here that was I think Malia who ran up Malia and Peter AR perhaps should flew up to stop that Bordeaux backline from getting the ball out wide and they did that pretty effectively and this was the next phase couple of times there bordo looked likely but then all of a sudden they just have one phase where they’re not quite sure what they’re doing when luku ran around the the fringes and didn’t know where he was going and got caught so it’s easy to say you got to keep that momentum going to capitalize when you do make the good runs yeah John batist whooh looking very unimpressed at the moment change at loose head prop for Bordeaux diabi has also come off as well little change of tack here by bordo to try and get into a game that they are 22 points behind [Applause] in Ben tamuna there number three still in the game even though he’s having regular attention on that shoulder that almost stopped him playing in the first place it’s a big kick that’s an unbelievable kick when D scrum had turned around the wrong way put him right in the firing line going to the right and kicking that ball of the bordo lucies and he still managed to thread this ball away somehow get some height and some distance under immense pressure yeah P Buton came on for diabi nice technique from the [Applause] crowd Tula [Applause] former France captain of course former number two Legend and Ben tamuna is not going to be able to carry on any longer he lasted 40 say seven minutes until the shoulder finally gave way and you can see how upset he is appreciation largely as well for the season that he’s put in as well the big tongen International will play no more part in this game in by lamot again the defense is Good from too so they have to give up on the mall and they go out wide instead buros penno chased after well it’s not working at the moment for you n Bo Ock we’re talking about plan B’s but mainly for vent tamuna or Matthew Jal before the game they need a plan D now in the game at the moment it’s a rather one-sided final something that Salo have done to many sides over the years and with every little Victory they get the confidence grows and grows and grows and it becomes harder and harder for Uno B to get a foothold penalty against Ugo bonifas a bit unlucky for well not not unlucky to get the penalty but it’ overrun the ball he wanted to get there in support knew he was out of play and and took out one of the too players just to keep the threat away from the ball from the turnover frustrating times for bordeau though they just can’t seem to get anything going you know they’re trying everything they do in the backline they’re trying to do bced around Jal bear coming outside 12 and 13 outside muana I think that’d be better sered to try and use Pino coming off their blinds side wing and hitting inside or outside my r as well rather than going laterally through jelly be cuz I don’t think he’s at 100% he’s he’s clearly not running at full gallop and the tulo’s backline is just getting an easy read on where they’re going well it’s a relatively easy three points that Thomas Ramos is going to be able to send towards goal to stretch the lead even further o well not like that though he won’t that was a rather uncharacteristic shank yeah I don’t think he chose the right height T I’m just kidding guys of course flam more pressure dup NTI dup again every time to lose come forward you fear for this un b o defensive line Aki enac another training ground move again round the backat Blair Kinghorn weaving trying to get free but uh that time the defense folded across well ENT a he’s going to go for the kick this time again that’s not a very good back it comes from buros that’s better that was close to being a 5022 didn’t quite make it across the 22 as Uberti comes on it’s a good call with Uber he’s got good energy always goes looking for work similar style of player to deport here apart from the obvious Sim similarities physically looks like he’s replacing trudging across he said before in the first half Angus that he looked a little after Chasing that kickoff through and making a tackle a little bit off center on Jack Willis well to’s done a great job of chasing down those three dangerous men and they’ barely got a look in really burus has had one break through but uh apart from that the too defense has been Rock Solid Richie Arnold takes the line out to lose build again moaka has it at the back Mo on the way antan Dondo will go for the kick instead and Uberti will get his first touch or will he it goes back the other way well whatever Anon dupon does things always seem to have a magical and that ball has gone out and it’s a line out goodness me and it’s a 5022 isn’t it well it would have been if he hadn’t got there in time but he’s touched it there and then he stepped on the line same thing Robbie absolutely what an incredible Che from just when you think you’ve said as many superlatives as you possibly can you’re searching for another one even the luck goes with him Hugo M as he always generally is looking very unflustered and just looking like everything is going exactly the way he planned it through the [Applause] week well he did say in his press conference when all of the shananigans about whether or not bener or mat bear would play so we’re not interested in that we’ve got our plan we know what we’re doing who’s to say he doesn’t Pato moaka hased toine line on the line out throws the last two or three have been getting further and further skewed a thought towards the too line and he’s been finally called on it doesn’t help bordo too much though really they’re only trying to exit their territory first run then without Ben tamuna with tomino ala having come on came onto the bench in place of lexo Kes V today for the final the big georan have a complete change in the front row for to lose in a couple of moments time I don’t think that’s going to do on Bono any good though they are so deep in their quality in the squad are to lose they can as they’ve shown through this season wonderful win by the second team against melier when they absolutely destroyed the Mel side that only just survived relegation in the relegation playoff against grob couple of weeks ago dupon little chip up in the air looking for entac instead he’s found another of his teammates entac has it now it was flam who uh rised through to plot that ball out of the air Dupo going for the corner and in the end he goes behind well bordo beg must wonder what is coming next from this man aren’t we all it’s he’s just genuinely the Puppet Master isn’t he and the kick there was for andak got taken out here’s the little pop over the top and it went high enough to allow flamon to get up there and get it he feeds off so everything goes their own way but like they say in sport and rugby you make your own luck and to just have numbers there they’ve got such an attacking mindset that there are always numbers there ready for any opportunity so no matter what happens someone is half anticipating that it might Peter Aki so close Ugo m still thinks he can see something knes changing as Julian Marshall comes on to replace Batu moaka who comes off and you can hear the roar could have had two tries in the end only [Applause] one for all of our American viewers of course got David danu and uh so they’re going to be celebrating his arrival for the for the next 27 minutes of this final Maxim luku has the latest put in [Music] [Applause] better Peno feeds it into Baton luku out Jal bear kick forward by deor brilliantly done by Malia oh Malia wonderful from the Argentine Ramos King Horn runs into luku [Music] [Applause] Jack Willis wants to take this but in the end he leaves it oh and because he and Anan Z pal were going for the same ball there looks like there was a little knock on but by bordo here they come again well they go for the kill aren’t they I mean it’s absolutely Relentless ha quick is he Off the Mark he just disappears to the cameras can’t fall on we can’t fall on the crowd didn’t even know till he was 15 M Galloping up field John Mera and David Anu the two props coming on as Robbie said a few moments ago ano the American Mera the Spaniard we got more changes K Douglas is coming on Paul a so You’ go at nine of course Max L might move to CH is coming off Kane daglas who uh started the first two semi-finals back in 2021 when they lost and in 2022 he was a sub last year in the semis which they also didn’t get through and he’s a sub again here in the final a first for him and for Uno here’s Paul AB into half which has P pushed luku out to 10 for this man jelly bear he’s done his best he certainly wasn’t at 100% done his best to lift his team there wasn’t a lot more he could have done to be fear such as the efficiency of the L’s defense they didn’t really give him any opportunities to get good front foot ball and I think generally the bordo game plan has not helped jelly bear bring his best skills tonight either doesn’t feel like an awful lot has changed in the second half so far with regards to momentum and here comes to lose again however they’ve been penalized LC who wants to take it quickly but he’s not going to be allowed to took it from the wrong place okay it’s M’s only just come on who’s been penalized there angling in got to remain parallel with your opponent well that’s not a good kick bord o not doing themselves any favors and they’ll be run back by one Cruz Malia better [Music] okay got it back again now they need to do something muana feeds it out buros tries to find that little edge of the inside Defender coming inside the outside Defender but again the defense is good so far they’re running it from side to side but they’re not going forward Peno haven’t really seen him unleash so far luku lamot breaks one tackle but it does enough to bring him down the Tackle by alexandera suddenly becoming a bit bitty the game that’s because bordeau had a little bit more ball and every time they have it it just reinforces how [Laughter] inefficient scram penalty and luu’s taken the scrum slightly favorable attacking position but they just keep pushing that pass from behind Deport they’ve hardly used Deport they’ve hardly given ball early with space big lanky Runner long leags he’s got a good outside break the one time he has really had a good go too was fantastic on defense and just shephered the ball across and took into touch but they haven’t tried it again with tort here and they just keep running laterally you said it even when got the ball and he finally got the chance to step and straighten up and instantly looks more dangerous but when they’re pushing them wide pushing that pass wide and trying to distribute to lose is at least the measure of that bordo attack he saw a wonderful shot of the St valad drone of course the big difference between this place and the St def France is the lack of an Athletics track around the outside so the stands are so much closer to the action we saw that last week as well at the home of jigle down de Bordeaux in in the semi-finals two great matches and of course Uno bordo were taken right to the end of that and they I think have struggled there was so much celebration at the end of that game that maybe they found it hard even though they wanted to come into this match was historic but they found it difficult to really get themselves back up again yes it was a big achievement for them there was a lot of euphoria and then it becomes Uncharted Territory sometimes that can work in your favor I’m sure without the nerves maybe but in other times perhaps tonight but perhaps regardless of whether it’s Bordeaux responded well or not you just got to take your hats off to to how efficient to has been on attack and on defense hard to know what happened in that scrum but one thing’s for sure is too didn’t like being penalized at the last [Applause] one B bag supporters trying to get behind their team but a Mexican wave has broken out around the stadium it’s not bad it’s taken nearly an hour for that to happen as Minard comes on for lamot as hooker for un Boro 35 years old now clemont manad comes in for last weekend’s finisher hook of Roman lad who’s not in the 22 this week entac Ramos it’s an exhibition at the moment of Supremacy from the 22 time Champions about to extend their record to 23 unless un bordo can find a dramatic way to change the momentum of this game Marshall Lovely by Thomas Ramos little offload there to allow that extra few meters to be made Ramos o that looked a little high on the too fallback no doubt the Tio be having a look at that meanwhile too carry [Applause] on well they’ve lost it a rare amount oh again to P te this time drops it how on Earth a bord o going to come back into this game if people who have not been making mistakes like that all season and making it on the big stage and doesn’t yanic Brew know it okay yeah it just plays on the mind doesn’t it when you when you’re chasing the game and you get that opportunity suddenly and there’s some space and you haven’t had much space all night just wanting to optimize your chances and the eyes can just go up so easily light up with the prospect of some space I’ve talked a lot about obviously dup like we all have and will and and how he Snipes around the fringes how he uses Runners so intelligently but that relies on work rate from his teammates it relies on as Fords getting themselves in position always being ready no matter what to put an option outside dupong inside dupong a delayed option to get a get an offload and that was flong on that occasion Joshua Brennan has come on big Olivier rumar just behind him to the left disappearing from the screen alexandre’s father former interational Richie Arnold is the man who has come off there he is the Australian who has been there or thereabout throughout this current rain of Ugo M since 2019 when they picked up their first brenus under him and it has been pretty great ever since they don’t lose finals very often to lose they’ve won the last six in Top Cat ORS [Applause] won the last couple in the Champions Cup as well added to the great generations of the past through the ’90s and the early part of the New Millennium and off go Peter Aki here Peter Aki’s burst through you’re MAF chasing after him again that quick ball off the penalty given and they’re away [Applause] dup Mera just catches the defense off guard they haven’t set properly before all of a sudden there’s a too man racing at them Ramos Miss pass oh and Clair Kinghorn who managed to pick one off the turf thrown to him last week by Anan Dupo can’t do the same thing with an even longer throw from Thomas Ramos this weekend I think it was being called a for pass in any case but to lose just dangerous at any point this was a good run from Peter AI get them on the go forward and at that point suddenly you see all the players light up Suddenly the energy goes up there’s the Ford pass King Horn un unble to bring it in but it didn’t blow a try as it was fought anyway but they just it’s just the team that gets excited they’ve got a great mindset the attitude that’s what puts players in the right positions as they’re always looking for chances a tremendous spot by too to bring him in from Edinburgh and you can see that the too supporters already celebrating with 18 minutes to go a 22o Advantage three converted tries would still not get them back on level terms it is a huge ask from here for unon bordo [Applause] well the news from Little care a little bit better for on bord oeg as a kicks them away from danger but not into touch and Blair Kinghorn takes it with space in front of him and he bounces off two challenges another attacking platform set forward by Brennan [Applause] dup oh again there he is he’s always there to support and another bful line by Roman entac Chi through and Ramos is going to go there and surely if there was any doubt at all there’s none now to lose will be the champions of 2024 again absolute perfection led by dup backed up by enac and finished off by Thomas [Applause] Ramos the best team in France by far the best team in Europe as well and the plaudit just continue Anan dup has just ripped apart this unon bordo side Sublime time skill the timing that’s the second example of dupon doing that but beautiful skill from Interac as well on the Run Split Second decision execution at PACE drops it to his wrong foot the left foot cuz he knew Ramos was on the inside he got communication everything worked perfectly but that’s not by chance that is hours of work hours of school work hours of combination work and most importantly the spirit of attack that this team displays constantly well the talk all season has been of unon boro’s attack but it’s toou who have taught them a lesson this evening and Ramos who scored 11 points in the last 20 minutes of the semi-final has missed that one that’s two misses for him today but it doesn’t really matter here’s the first one look he was oh that’s sorry that is the second one again both times it looked like d was going to kick who a decided no I can give a little short Ball but he’d done one the previous phase to one of the forwards as well he just he’s Relentless with his composure and his vision and his executing of the right option and his capacity to make the right decision every single time or almost every single [Applause] time Adam Coleman off sir Kazo has come back on again well it’s become a bit of a lap of Honor now Alexander Ruma has come off and is replaced by V so then is there a try in this game well when Yan mafana starts making mistakes like that you know that it’s really bad here they come again pouring through they might be 27 points in front but look at the aggression into the breakdown PA cost is on for Peter Aki hardly a lesser threat Pablo Uberti was penalized for diving on that ball which means that it must have been considered a Ruck because if the ball was just loose on the ground in general play you can of course dive on that to secure it so possibly a little bit unlucky there bordo and maybe the victim of perception from the referee too was putting huge amount of heat on there’s rumar as well he’ll get another round of applause farther off so then another possibility here four tries already could have been five it could well be five now how much will have UB Bay got left here to keep out this too side who are now just playing for fun what a take by Flamel onehanded and now the strength the power pushing up to the 5 m line crowd excited again bordo don’t know where it’s going round to the right and they’re over juliia Marshall the latest to get the five pointer another of these great players who really are part of this wonderful generation building their own Dynasty off the back of previous generations and it was all because of that magnificent take at the line now what do you say now I mean it’s clinical it’s ruthless it’s just so precise and efficient and dynamic and this is the dynamic end to what had been a a composed and remorseless Journey towards the line from that too Ford pack now they’ve pretty much done everything tonight well I say that we still got 13 minutes or 12 minutes left who knows what we might see as you say and as they playing for fun and really are enjoying themselves out there Ano on as well is not going to be any less skill on show now well it’s the depth isn’t it as well of the too S I mean kuto has not actually played that much for to lose this season the Italian International but another flare player so then with a Blair Kinghorn and uh he’s missed that one as well well the kicking is the only thing that hasn’t worked tonight for too and you can see there now even nugo M relaxing and Yanik M Yik brw who knew so much success as a player with to Lou in the past is on the sharp end of what they can do to him as a coach Uberti 11 minutes to go oh they’re throwing the ball around CZ over the top and here comes King the Scottish International who is in such an amazing first season with too gets his chance to get on the score sheet as well a TriCore in the semifinal and now a TriCore in the final what a season it has been for him personally and to lose are going to win the double for the third time in their history [Applause] G as I said what’s next to score a try they’ve completed the set well they haven’t scored from an intercept tonight and there it was it was Clon V took the intercept costed cleverly getting the ball out wide to speed he might have thought about having it Go himself King or’s happy not only for the try but he gets the chance now to not go out from his season on a missed kick which he thought he was going to after the last one always support and droves for too that’s what the attacking spirit is about they react quickly they get in support of another one another quickly they love keeping the ball alive Jack Willis trying to console Maxim luku who made the mistake Anon dup oh surely the man of the match the player of the match tonight huge raw for him Paul [Applause] grow has come on to replace who’s been a very able understudy this season he’s played really well when he’s been given the chance when an has been away with the sevens when he was away as well at the World Cup earlier on in the season it’s been a very long season because of that world cup in the middle of the autum and that ball has gone out Robbie down there on the sidelines it must be quite a amazing scenes now on the tooo side of the dugout ne’s actually brought him off to rest him for the Olympics honestly give him an extra 10 minutes because he’s going to go less than a month he be playing Seven it’s just extraordinary they’ve been so relaxed and so composed on the bench just celebrating every try and everything that’s happening down here it really has been oneway traffic and it’s been so complicated for ubb honestly I’m scared to just glance across the ubb bench I’m scared to look away from the action as soon as anything like that happens immediately it goes piling down the other end picked up by buros Julian Maron kicked that Angus thumped [Applause] up well he might as well mat J looking on it’s been unfortunate for him he got injured against o now maybe he shouldn’t really have been on the pitch in that game to be honest it was an injury that perhaps was avoidable I it’s not to say he wouldn’t have got injured in the the playoffs but it seemed a little bit unnecessary and it’s what’s created this sort of like doubt in a sense yeah jelly bear certainly has the keys to the the truck and it’s changed their entire I think attitude and approach in the last couple of matches yeah the GPS has just gone off hasn’t it a little bit of right nothing something you can aim at to lose they have been absolutely pinpoint Point perfect in all the important places that matter un VTO look like a team really I don’t want to be unkind but looked like they were a rabbit caught in the headlights and those headlights are a juggernaut of toou BL proportions again they are at risk of conceding every time the ball comes forward but theyve managed to wrap that one up playing for PR and then they’ve lost the ball again Brennan more danger entac goes for the corner kotu wrapped up though by nicad deor grow playing fly half to ENT Max scrum half there well you’ve got hookers kicking everybody’s changing position at the moment brenon strong [Applause] run inside the 5 met line again Kane Douglas trying to get that ball out he’s off his feet though has to leave it Crose Ramos knocked forward by Peno back comes Marshon brought down by his French International teammate Gro Ramos entac Koto feeds it out wide there King Horn just a m manages to hold on to it but that stopped him going forward but not much else as Ramos again over he goes again seven tries in a final no wonder he’s shrieking for joy to lose wrapping it up over and over again and Maxim luku and Uno bordo feel the pain of what is turning out to be a crushing defeat in their first ever Top Cats final oh no no they are just showing off now aren’t they to lose good on them they just oh they know that anything can happen when they just keep playing and keep the ball alive so long as they get their support there which they’ve done even one player in support has been effective tonight at the breakdown that’s the key to it the hard work behind all the flare that we see that turns into five pointers like this in the corner for Tomar Ramos they’ve worked hard these poor guys are out on their feet the bordo players maybe one or even two games too far for them this season against a team with the depth and the quality and tonight The Possession and the efficiency and the discipline of to [Applause] lose so King Horn missed his first attempt at goal it’s not easy but he would be disappointed if he doesn’t get it and he hasn’t got it but again 47 points and they’ve left 10 points out on the pitch also so and still 5 minutes to go you wouldn’t put it past to lose and I’d love to see bordo get over the chalk for the work that they’ve put in this year for the the ability they have they’ve been well and truly outclass tonight but be great to see them get a try chabar is coming off everybody in the score getting a chance to participate in what is another glorious night in the story and the history of [Applause] sta Peter AI is the man who’s come back on again Paul growl goes Ariel perfectly weighted kick from Paul grow even at this stage with a couple of minutes to go and up by 44 points they still take pride in getting things accurate well last season there was only three points between too and larell larell had their hearts broken right at the end by Roman enac well un bordo be who were hoping like larell last year to get their first ever brenis well they’ve never really been close it is a very different match this time around we’ve taken that well though looking for scraps to be positive really for unono be but it’s been a tough night to do that Koto oh fluid running from the Italian and here they come again it’s gone backwards as the referee so they can keep going Paul Costas still chasing his own kick but in the end it goes out well maybe Paul C didn’t realize it had gone out off Bordeaux cuz he chased that pretty hard nothing going right for Bordeaux at all couple he’s absolutely electrifying of course only need to give him a sniff of a gap and away he goes beating some pretty tired legs as well but looking straight away for a support they just switch on so quickly to [Applause] lose di laqua comes down and hugs the coach Ugo M who look looks like he’s close to tears man who followed after G noes the great father of this modern toou [Applause] side and he’s now taking it on here they come again grow flamon flamon looking for the offload in the end he has to keep it close Marshall and they’re away again and it’s a try Goodness Me David AO the replacement loose head [Applause] prop well I think that Pierre butcheron and his Boro b side will be quite happy if they blew the whistle now and this is becoming one of the biggest thumpings that this final has ever [Applause] seen it’s a humiliation for bord beg Maxim luku the hero of last week powerless this week anger the biggest defeat that we’ve had in a final French Championship final 2006 4013 beit beating to lose nicely done yes goodness me well if there was any doubt about the supremacy of too well this surely undo it it took the a long time to go to the top of the regular season this time around as they juggled all of the various priorities not just for the team but for their individual players but they came good when it counts and that is something that toou have done historically in this modern era they know when to turn it on it looks like R inac back on the field to take this last kick there’s the easy one straight through oh Robbie like you said 27 points was the previous biggest margin and that was 18 years ago and this has almost been doubled 51 points and we saw it on Daman Poo’s face a little bit of disbelief you can maybe only laugh at some things like this disbelief on the face of laorel Marty as well the president who was the man who steadied this club when they became an entity in itself helped them through the financial problems help build one of the biggest fan bases in France but this is perhaps just going to be a learning curve nothing more than that they’ve got to take something positive from this the season when they made it to the final for the first time ever as Union bord o can they come up with anything just want a try just something as yur mafana gets brought down by cost and gets up again and Carries On he’s allowed to carry on as well he wasn’t being held good run by the French International something we haven’t really seen from him in this game much because he havn’t been allowed to finally a little bit of running here from bordo beu berti buros buros tried to come through and he dropped it as well and that rather ends it and that’s been the way it’s been all through here comes moaka the hooker bursting through through to the other hooker Marshall capoto racing through competo still doesn’t need anybody else he’s in the corner and the biggest ever victory in the final is finished off after the 80 minutes by the little Italian flyer unbelievable Union bordo made to look like a relegation side by the stratospheric talent of The Ensemble of stat to L out well Angus I have literally seen everything now the atmosphere is surreal really even amongst the Jubilation of the too supporters nobody could have imagined this kind of a score line and I I was to say how proud toose would be even right at the end up by almost 50 points defending so 51 points defending so hard to keep Bordeaux from crossing their line and then they go 100 me Emanuel Mau Smiles he didn’t get to play tonight but he’s still as happy as anybody look what aruto is he’s smiling as he’s wrapping Daman pen up in knots even Anon to Paul like that one well L turn from defense into attack as they take the final kick at goal just misses to the left but they turned it into attack the support play got them there over 100 m what a way to ice the cake angers and that’s it it’s a 23rd brenus a record extending quantity forced that to loser in a dominant performance that even they can’t believe they’ve done incredible try count so many TR scorers but led by Antoine dupan an incredible game that Uno bordo will remember with a fair amount of sadness even though there’s Pride at having reached the final for the first time but I’m afraid that the Masters really gave the pupils a lesson that they will remember and maybe be scarred by for a long time to [Applause] come a full time it has finished to lose 59 un on bord o three 59 Andrew I mean that is in a final unbelievable I mean I don’t think words can do that Justice really from to based on on obviously the ability to score tries and score points but the defense has been impressive tonight to not allow your opposition to cross the tri line in a final will be a source of immense Pride for too and then all the work of the the unsung heroes yes we saw a couple oo at the a we saw couple of tries from Anan dupong but it was the Take It Forward No Nonsense from Peter Aki the defense of Aki and chocobar in the Midfield all those little moments from the unsung heroes that up tonight to this to lose [Applause] domination yeah ad um we’re not going to look at the score [Applause] line and we don’t really need to look at the score line but what can you can you explain what happened out there we had a chat at half time but you know what happened in the second half couldn’t quite get back into this game yeah exactly mate they they had all the momentum and we struggled to we struggled to hold that um yeah full credit to to loose equality side um they gone back to back now so um yeah full credit to them now talk to me about this um bordo team you’ve got yourself past that hurdle that very difficult semi-final you got yourself into a final what lessons have you learned from this you understood that you know you got to raise your game you’ve got to approach this Final in a different way yeah first of all full credit to our coaches the V tremendous all year and uh and our and our players um first final for bordo um even though very incredibly incredibly disappointing to finish our season this way the boys are hurting um but I’m so proud of the group they’ve achieved a lot this year um yeah it’s going to hurt for a while but uh yeah do you think it was one game too many pardon do you think it was one game too many 6 day turn rounds we were here to win we’re not making any excuses full credits it’s to loose and uh yeah it thanks very much for your time Madam take care thanks M cheers well bordo we’re able to become the 10th team to lift the Brena Shield since the uh dawning of the professional ER congratulations thank you in English just two quick questions by can is that okay uh onto congratulations that was a clinical Master Class typical to lose rugby but an outstanding performance what does it mean to you to do it to get another double unbelievable it’s insane for all the group all the club all the guys uh we really wanted to to win this Trophy and we started very well the game I think with a lot of intensity a very good defense which offer us a lot of penalties and we score several tries uh quickly and after when we when we have the score it’s it’s easier I don’t know whether to call you a French Wizard or a French rugby Einstein but your amazing ability to just pass pop those passes get everybody involved tell us about that a little bit and and how you can do that on the pitch well I made a lot of mistakes today uh also I think I am lucky to play in this club to play with this guy every day uh it’s very challenging to we want to be uh to be U better every day and that’s what that’s why we are motivated to win trophies again and again and again I hope and Ugo MOA your coach took you off with 10 minutes to go is that to give you a bit of a rest ahead of the Olympics yeah that’s that’s what he told me so I I hope I will be good uh in one month we’re looking forward to seeing you for the Olympics felicito thank you so much Messi thanks [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]
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The most beautiful final in the history of the Top14…especially because Macron wasn' t there. 😉
merci pour le partage
Le 👑 Dupont ❤
so sorry to see UBB lose in such a humiliating way, especially for Yannick Bru, ex Toulousain of past glory days. But Toulouse were simply strastoferique.
What Players! What a Team! What a Club! What a City! For History!
And in the end Toulouse wins…..
Great amazing play from Toulouse…I'm 27 minutes in, but this ref seems to be only looking for one side infringing. I understand refs are human but he seems to be reffing 2 different standards right now.
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31st min 😂. I am certain now 😂
C'est Tsushima.
Je vous remercie chaleureusement de mettre tous ces matches sur YouTube .
Sacrée punition, ce n’est pas mérité vu la saison de l’Union. Begles Bordeaux.
Tout le monde se régale de voir jouer le Stade Toulousain, c’est un peu les Harlem Globe trotteurs du Rugby
Brutal! Toulouse was "a guide to playing rugby". Thanks for posting!
Terrible final unless you're a ST fan. I was afraid this would be over at half time. It was a wrap even before that. Toulouse was unplayable and Bordeaux was absolute garbage, couldn't catch a simple pass they were out of the game mentally after the second try I think.
Thanks for the upload 🙏🏻
Always THE best
Muchas gracias!!
Merci beaucoup pour le video. Total master – class!
Bravo les gars you are thé best❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
quand la 1ere charniere de l´equipe de france rencontre la 2eme, on comprend que ca va etre difficile pour bordeaux
Who are the three commentators ..really excellent match and commentary
Thank you so much for the upload. Toulouse just unbeatable in this form.
Thank you. UBB never gave up , strong in some areas . Toulouses' coach did it well.. combining a few international traits with french 'never say never' optimism.
( could we have a quick tri- tournament between Toulouse, Blues and Saints?)
Thank you for uploading this.
A proper drubbing! 😀
Please Toulouse, invite the Auckland Blues for a pre season game. Would love to see both styles. Funny how times have changed. Southern Hemisphere winners playing a 10 man game, Northern Hemisphere with the expansive game. Well done Toulouse!
Stade Toulousain is in a phenomenal run (DOUBLE CHAMPIONS in one season) and not to mention being led by Antoine, and it becomes masterclass in rugby. This match was so enjoyable to watch as a fan of ST, but it is indeed a pity for the underdog Bordeaux team. Us here in Toulouse say the real finals was the semis against the giant La Rochelle. Anyway, congratulations Stade Toulousain! I was at the champions ceremony welcome home today in the city center! Magnifique!! 🎉❤🖤✨
The last try is the definition of the Stade Toulousain…
Never give up.
It starts with Mauvaka who played more than 50 minutes as hook (and had replaced another machine, aka Willis) and finishes with Capuzzo (with Kinghorn and Ramos as back up, in case) vs Penaud.
It’ll be very tough for UBB to recover from this….
Bordeaux just looked so slow and tired.
We Wuz Robbed at least ten of they Tries were offside
Tu nous casses les couilles avec tes pubs .
Toulouse will be drinking France dry and perhaps a few Scotch whiskies
French and Toulousain here. Please England board, change your rules. Jack Willis deserves 1000 times to play for ''Le XV de la Rose".
Talented, hardworker, humble.
Great channel with great commentators. You definitely deserve more visibility.
It seems cruel to make the Bordeaux Bègles player do an interview
Wow!! That’s a rugby team! Toulouse are incredible! IINCROYABLE!
They bring out the best in all players including Jack Willis and Kinghorn.
DuPont is king 👏👏👏🏴🇫🇷☺️
Demolition ! 🧨💪🏼😳
I'm a stade toulousain fan but I'm disgusted by the way Toulouse ran up the score in that way .Bordeaux is a young side and should bounce back .There was no humbleness in this game .When Bordeaux was on the ropes ,Toulouse went for their jugular Definitely,for me ,Al,ez Bordeaux ! 17:44
Thank you for posting this whole season. Can't wait for next year, both Top 14 and ProD2.
Che chiavica di partita.