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Massive away wins, apocalyptic weather, and disgruntled former players hitting social media after a few glasses of vin rouge... it's just another typical week in the world of French rugby. We run through all the Top 14 action, try and work out where Pro D2 is at, and there's backflips and karaoke in the Petit-Fours. 00:00 - 05:10 Entrées 05:10 - 35:40 Top 14 Round 8 Review 35:40 - 51:10 Pro D2 Round 8 Review 51:10 - 1:00:37 Petit-Fours & Disgestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A midweek Hors d'Oeuvre you say? Fabien Galthie has announced his 42 man squad for the upcoming Autumn Nations Series tests against Japan, Argentina and the All Blacks, and after a tough old week at work we wanted to discuss a few points of interest... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join us to look ahead to another enthralling season of Top 14 action as we ramble through the teams, new recruits and potential fortunes of Rugby's premier club competition. Can Toulouse be toppled? Can Vannes beat the drop? Can Montpellier get even worse? We fail to answer all of these questions and more, plus there's Pro D2, Nationale, and celeb spotting down in Hyères... Strap in, the season's just getting started! 00:00 - 03:55 Entrées 03:55 - 51:47 Top 14 Season Preview - 04:55 - 10:52 Can Toulouse be stopped? - 10:52 - 23:35 Chasing pack - 23:35 - 30:51 Racing 92 & Owen Farrell - 30:51 - 38:55 Can Vannes beat the drop? - 38:55 - 43:00 Relegation candidates - 43:00 - 46:50 Can the Montpellier Madness get more Mad? - 46:50 - 51:47 Best of the Rest 51:47 - 1:00:32 Pro D2 Round 1 Review 1:00:32 - 1:02:20 Nationale 1 Roundup 1:02:20 - 1:08:22 Petit-Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Astonishingly, the new Pro D2 season is already upon us! The Rosbifs welcome Illtud Dafydd, a Welshman living the dream of working in France and reporting on French Rugby for AFP. Illtud helps us run the rule over the contenders in the ‘Triple Ironman’ of domestic rugby leagues: Pro D2. Illtud brings the inside scoop on regional rivalries, crazy club Presidents and Siya Kolisi’s eating habits. 00:00 - 04:23 Entrées 04:23 - 51:04 Illtud Dafydd & Pro D2 preview 51:04 - 63:55 The Rosbifs Pro D2 debrief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Rosbifs are back for Series 2! Whilst we eagerly await the start of the 2024-2025 season, what better time to chew the fat with The Times Sports Reporter, and all round French Rugby aficionado, Elgan Alderman. The task at hand for us in this, a Lions season: devising the perfect Lions Tour of France Itinerary. Enjoy! 00:00 - 07:20 Entrées 07:20 - 45:18 Elgan Alderman & Lions Tour to France itinerary 45:18 - 52:45 The Rosbifs Lions Tour debrief 52:45 - 55:55 Petit-Fours & Digestifs   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We bring the curtain down on 11 months of glorious French Rugby and Series 1 of our less glorious podcast. Join us for our finds of the season, favourite memories and the best petit-fours from the last 21 weeks. We'll be back in a couple of weeks for Series 2 with more guests, more tall tales and lots, lots more French Rugby. Merci! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A short pod for the short format... even with the Olympics in town, French rugby is the hottest ticket as the France Mens Sevens team claim an historic Gold Medal at the Stade de France, inspired by you-know-who. We discuss a day for the ages, GOATness, and just how good is this sporting storyline?  00:00 - 02:33 Entrées 02:33 - 26:31 Olympics & The GOAT? 26:31 - 38:03 Petit-Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Olympics are here and whilst a certain Tony D has the eyes of a nation on him, our attentions turn to the nerdy pursuit of picking our Top14 team of the year. Join us to see whether the vibes or spreadsheets win out in the final selection, and for a tribute to one of the departing greats of French rugby. Entrées: 00:00 - 05:45 Olympic 7s: 05:45 - 11:40 U20s World Championships: 11:40 - 20:00 Top 14 Team of the Year: 20:00 - 54:35 Quiz - Rosbifs x Tour de France: 54:35 - 1:07:20 Petit Fours: 1:07:20 - 1:10:28 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

France's players finally wrap up their mammoth 2023/24 season with a cracker in Buenos Aires but the U20s fancy just one more game after an astonishing win against New Zealand in their bid to equal the Baby Blacks’ 4 successive World Cups. We review who shone in South America, whilst there's the small matter of all the new season fixtures to chow down on. If that's not enough, then listen to the very end for the job opportunity of a lifetime... 00:00 - 03:45 Entrées 03:45 - 27:32 France Tour of South America - Review 27:32 - 37:10 U20s World Championship 37:10 - 47:12 Fixture Frenzy: Champions Cup  47:12 - 53:36 Fixture Frenzy: Top 14 & Pro D2 53:36 - 01:02:12 Petit Fours & Digestifs   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In what has been a shocking few days for French Rugby, join us to reflect on some of the high points, namely a youthful France comfortably getting past Argentina and an even more youthful under 20s side making the U20s semi-finals. The Champions and Challenge Cup Pools have been drawn and there are potential mouthwatering trips aplenty on the horizon, and Sofiane Guitoune takes dental hygiene to admirable new levels....  00:00 - 04:40 Entrées - News headlines 04:40 - 07:00 Entrées 07:00 - 22:35 ARG v FRA - 1st Test Review 22:35 - 28:45 Uruguay & 2nd Test Preview 28:45 - 42:10 Under 20s World Championship 42:10 - 57:24 Petit-Fours & Digestifs (including Champions Cup 7 Challenge Cup Pools announcements (44:05 - 51:50)) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We are joined by Section Paloise and soon to be Dragons Australian Second Row Steve Cummins, to discuss all things Pau: from Sam Whitelock mentoring the club's electric youngsters, to chance encounters with rowdy Brits in the city's bars. There's also the small matter of a Top14 final to digest, as Toulouse secure their 23rd Bouclier de Brennus in the most extraordinary fashion in Marseille on a night that few will ever forget. 00:00 - 17:45 Top 14 Final 17:45 - 50:05 Steve Cummins interview 50:05 - 53:01 France U20s 53:01 - 59:29 Petit Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the denouement to the French rugby season nearly upon us, we dissect two cracking semi-finals in Bordeaux, including THAT headbutt from Reda Wardi and how it is linked to Rob’s haircut. With Stade Toulousain and UBB progressing to the Final, we preview Friday night’s game at the Stade Velodrome. There's also a preview of the updated France squad for their tour to South America, a fresh looking French U20s side is confirmed for the World Cup, there's transfers aplenty to tuck into, and find out what happened when a former French president stumbled upon a rugby club on the campaign trail... 00:00 - 05:40 Entrées 05:40 - 31:40 Top 14 Semi Finals Review 31:40 - 36:17 Top 14 Final Preview 36:17 - 52:05 France Squad for South America Tour 52:05 - 57:09 France U20s World Cup Squad 57:09 - 1:06:10 Petit Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Despite Rich dialling in from a tin can on the moon, we are delighted to be joined by Aurillac's Irish Hooker and all round gent Ronan Loughnane, to talk us through all things rugby in the Auvergne, with hurling, cows and Cantal cheese all on the menu…There's the usual round up of all the action including some magical tries in the Top 14, and we salivate at France's halfback options ahead of their Autumn International squad announcement on Wednesday. 00:00 - 06:05  Entrées 06:05 - 27:50 Top 14 Round 7 Review 27:50 - 31:00 Pro D2 Round 7 Review 31:00 - 1:02:25 Ronan Loghnane interview 1:02:25 - 1:04:35 Pro D2 Round 8 Preview 1:04:35 - 1:07:00 Nationale Nibbles 1:07:00 - 1:16:45 France Autumn Internationals Squad preview 1:16:45 - 1:21:55 Petit Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's heartbreak in the Isere as Grenoble are pipped in the Access Match, whilst Montpellier live to fight another day. The Barrages are done, with La Rochelle saving their best 'til last to tee up a Friday night feast under the lights against Toulouse, whilst UBB cruise past an increasingly ramshackle Racing 92. Rob dips into his spreadsheet to discuss the fresh faces in Fabien's preliminary squad for Argentina and Uruguay, and there's joy in Geneva and transfers aplenty in the petit-fours.   00:00 - 05:10 Entrées 05:10 - 26:40 Top 14 Barrage Review 26:40 - 36:54 Top 14 Semi Finals Preview 36:54 - 51:55 Top 14 Access Match Review 51:55 - 1:05:28 France Tour of South America 1:05:28 - 1:15:53 Petit-Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's all about them up-north this week, as Vannes make history securing their first promotion to the Top14, sparking wild scenes in the changing rooms of Toulouse and the ports of Brittany. The Top 6 are confirmed as we look ahead to the Barrage, and can Grenoble spring an upset and overturn the Montpellier Madness in the access match?   00:00 - 01:50 Intro 01:50 - 17:35 Pro D2 Final Review 17:35 - 27:24 Top 14 Access Match Preview 27:24 - 53:55 Top 14 Final Round Review 53:55 - 59:58 Top 14 Barrage Preview 59:58 - 62:54 France Summer Tour - mini preview 62:54 - 66:03 Petit Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Top14 is back and we review an absolute cracker between La Rochelle and a half-cut Toulouse at le Stadium on a Super Sunday where Toulon hammered home their title credentials. The ProD2 Final is upon us after two breathless semi-finals and it's heartbreak for Narbonne in a historic first Nationale Access Match as Jerome Bosviel's redemption arc comes full circle. Plus there's tips on how not to write a best man's speech, and how to shoehorn in a bit of rugby into your wedding, if that's your thing.   00:00 - 04:30 Entrées 04:30 - 35:43 Top 14 35:43 - 46:16 Pro D2 Semi Finals 46:16 - 51:06 Pro D2/National Access Match 51:06 - 1:01:40 Petit-Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Rosbifs dissect an astonishing Champions Cup final: Rich finds out whether Rob found it all a bit underwhelming, Toulouse add their 6th star, sparking city-wide celebrations for the ages. Meanwhile, Grenoble march on and Beziers confirm their place in the Pro D2 semi finals. There’s a first ever Pro D2/Nationale access match to chow down on, the Top 14 returns, and the Olympic torch pops up in Pau. 00:00 - 03:14 Entrées 03:14 - 34:41 Champions Cup Final Review 34:41 - 52:42 Pro D2: Barrage Review & Semi-Final Preview 52:42 - 1:00:29 Top 14: Round 25 Preview 1:00:29 - 1:10:49 Petit-Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Rosbifs are back to review a pivotal round of Top14 action as the table begins to take shape. We preview what could be one of the all time Champions Cup Finals between Toulouse and Leinster and discuss the travails of following arguably the most dramatic round of PROD2 action ever via dodgy streams, whether you're a fan or a coach. Nice hit the ProD2 big time for the first time, but will any of this week's barrage hopefuls need to add them to their travel plans, or can they go one better?   00:00 - 04:35 Entrées  04:35 - 30:21 Top 14 30:21 - 50:39 Pro D2: Final Round Drama 50:39 - 56:57 Nationale & Nice 56:57 - 1:06:15 Champions Cup Final Preview 1:06:15 - 1:09:59 Petit Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rob is back from his latest trip to Beziers, Perpignan and Prades with tales of scorching scenery, scintillating rugby and straight-up sunburn. We discuss all the latest updates from the Top14 as the usual suspects soar and others falter. There's a full preview of the last full round of ProD2 fixtures after another incredible week at both ends of the table, Narbonne and Nice eye up an Alpine showdown to join the promised land, plus get the inside line on the 1200 year old beef between Wilfred the Hairy and er, Charles the Bald. 00:00 - 16:20 Entrées & Overview of Rob’s Catalan trip 16:20 - 38:47 Top 14 38:47 - 57:35 Pro D2 (& a little bit of Nationale) 57:35 - 1:07:27 Petit-Fours & Digestifs   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Rosbifs are joined by Agen lock Zak Farrance to discuss all things ProD2, from intensive eating at Oyonnax, to getting red carded by an away crowd and the pressures of Phillippe Sella peering over your shoulder. We review a Champions Cup classic between Toulouse and Harlequins and the epic events in Nationale, and there's some trophy diving served up for good measure. 00:00 - 06:10 Entrées 06:10 - 26:02 Champions Cup Semi Finals 26:02 - 29:45 Challenge Cup Semi Finals 29:45 - 1:02:42 Interview with Zak Farrance 1:02:42 - 1:13:35 Top 14 Previews 1:13:35 - 1:20:50 Pro D2 Previews 1:20:50 - 1:29:45 Petit-Fours & Digestifs   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's Champions Cup Semi-Final week, and with the feeding and watering needs of the travelling Harlequins faithful in mind, the Rosbifs run through their recommendations for a belting weekend in Toulouse, including a couple of potential detours to the Nationale Barrage games. After Clermont prove they can still mix it with the best in the league and Perpignan settle diplomatic squabbles on the pitch in Montpellier, we run through all of the Top14 action and ProD2 highlights including a famous win for Dax in the Landes derby. Find out why the Mont-Saint-Michel trophy may have found it's resting place for the foreseeable, and it's Buy One, Get One Free on Castres Olympique and err, Alice Cooper gig tickets... 00:00 - 07:00 Entrées  07:00 - 39:15 Top 14 39:15 - 62:25 Quins in Toulouse - 39:15 - 48:57 Rosbifs’ Recommendations for Toulouse - 48:57 - 53:51 Trip Options - Nationale 1 Play Offs - 53:51 - 1:02:25 Champions Cup Semi Final Preview 1:02:25 - 1:12:36 Pro D2 1:02:36 - 1:21:05 Petit Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Inspired by efforts of those partaking in the London Marathon the previous day, Rob embarks on a similarly torturous journey through the winding backstreets of the French JIFF rules, and the knock-on effect on the sharp end of the Top14 season. We recap all the weekend's action including an agonising defeat for Bayonne in France's premier division, and the end is in sight for ProD2 with just about every outcome still a possibility. Nationale approaches it's last round of the regular season, and a barber pays an unexpected visit to Normandy... 00:00 - 05:24 Entrées 05:24 - 16:45 JIFF Rules & Why Do We Care? 16:45 - 39:39 Top 14  39:39 - 52:47 Pro D2 52:47 - 57:20 Nationale 57:20 - 1:07:56 Petit-Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Returning from Costa Rican exile and the Stade Chaban Delmas respectively, the Rosbifs are back to ask, Quins, what have you done?! Our man on the ground by the Garonne reports on a startling reverse for UBB at the hands of sunburnt south-west Londoners as La Rochelle's hopes of a hat-trick of titles fade to Leinster. Stade Toulousain look inspired despite Exeter borrowing Pierre Mignoni's clipboard, and the Challenge Cup is barely discussed whilst we probe instead how Homer Simpson would organise a Stag-Do. Find out why the locals are so impressed with Rob's ability to 'get the badge in', plus the usual previews of the Top14, ProD2 and a sombre but celebratory digestif. 00:00 - 02:15 Intro 02:15 - 09:17 Entrées - Bordeaux Trip 09:17 - 24:36 UBB v Harlequins 24:36 - 34:15 Leinster v La Rochelle 34:15 - 39:00 Northampton v Bulls 39:00 - 46:22 Toulouse v Exeter 46:22 - 59:34 Top 14 Previews 59:34 - 1:06:10 Pro D2 1:06:10 - 1:08:35 Nationale 1 1:08: 35 - 1:17:48 Petit-Fours & Digestifs  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We are delighted to be joined by England, Toulon and now Perpignan tight head Kieran Brookes to discuss Perpignan's start to the season, his time on the Riviera and settling into French Catalonia. Plus there's the usual weekly digest of the Top 14, including tight wins in the Vunipola and Rosbif derbies, you-know-who is back with a bang, and ProD2 serves up a low scoring classic.  00:00 - 03:40 Entrées 03:40 - 27:25 Top 14 Round 6 27:35 - 54:00 Interview with Kieran Brookes  54:10 - 55:50 Top 14 Round 7 previews 55:50 - 1:02:45 Pro D2 1:02:45 - 1:04:40 Nationale Nibbles 1:04:40 - 1:04:45 Petit-Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We discuss a pulsating weekend of Champions Cup action and preview the best weekend in the rugby calendar: the Quarter Finals of the Champions Cup. Will any of the sides manage to pick up an away win? We also dissect the latest from Pro D2 and hear about what the hell is going on at the top of Nationale. In this week’s extraordinary Petit-Fours, we hear the unique way one coach will be preparing before his side’s quarter-final this weekend and discover how the film Platoon was recreated in the Basque Country. 00:00 - 04:20 Entrées 04:20 - 66:56 Champions Cup reviews and QF Previews - 04:20 - 28:36 Harlequins v Glasgow | UBB v Saracens - 28:36 - 47:56 Leinster v Leicester | Stormers v La Rochelle - 47:56 - 51:44 Bulls v Lyon | Northampton v Munster - 51:44 - 1:06:56 Exeter v Bath | Toulouse v Racing 92 1:06:56 - 1:13:15 Challenge Cup 1:13:15 - 1:21:52 Pro D2 1:21:52 - 1:24:54 Nationale 1:24:54 - 1:37:59 Petit-Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Separate episode looking forward to one of the great weekends in the rugby calendar: the last 16 of the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup. We run through our predictions for the games, give recommendations of the long weekends you could have, and play a Challenge Cup edition of ‘Will the French team bother to turn up?’ 01:35 Harlequins v Glasgow 5:13 Bulls v Lyon 7:48 Stormers v La Rochelle 12:14 Exeter v Bath 13:37 Bordeaux v Saracens 18:13 Leinster v Leicester 19:12 Northampton v Munster 19:52 Toulouse v Racing 28:00 Challenge Cup previews Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After falling for our April Fools, we have a recipient of the ‘Poisson d’Avril’ filling in for Rich this week after and we talk Mullet Quotas being introduced to Pro D2, hear from our Costa Rican Correspondent, debate whether smoking bans lead to successful French rugby teams and investigate a mystery disappearance during a sin bin period.   10:22 Entrées - April Fools and other news 18:47 Top 14 Games review 18:50 Toulouse v Pau 26:06 Montpellier v Stade Francais 33:04 Bayonne v Toulon 46:43 Perpignan v Castres 49:17 Lyon v Bordeaux 51:56 Racing v Clermont 55:16 La Rochelle v Oyonnax 57:05 Pro D2 Roundup 67:24 Nationals 1 Roundup 74:05 Petit Fours & Digestifs   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Rosbifs dissect a bonkers round of TOP14 action including a game for the ages between Bordeaux Begles and Stade Toulousain at the Matmut Atlantique. Is Antoine Dupont human, and is Maxime 'the Man' Lucu even better? Plus we look ahead to the ProD2 run in, with Rugby's sexiest and most unpredictable league sure to serve up a feast of chaos in the remaining 6 rounds. Also find out why Rich is Castres and Castres is Rich, and Robins Tchale-Watchou and Perpignan's kitman get a shout out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to Rosbifs Rugby! Join Rob and Rich for the inaugural Rosbifs Rugby Podcast. We'll be reviewing the end of France's Six Nations campaign and dissecting the state of play in the TOP14, as well as revealing which 1998 football World Cup winner has been inspiring Brive ahead of their ProD2 run-in. Plus find out our recommendations for a night to remember in Bordeaux, and what is the secret ingredient in a 'Sauce Paloise'... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Five rounds have passed in the Top 14, and we try and determiner who the movers and shakers are going to be. Castres as Champions? Crisis at Toulouse? Montpellier still mad? There's a deep dive on Mathieu Raynal's attempts to shake up the laws of the French game from behind his giant cigar, Antoine Dupont is getting into property and Pierre Mignoni may have finally lost it... 00:00 - 02:45 Entrées 02:45 Top 14 02:45 - 18:15 Castres v Toulouse 18:15 - 27:50 Vannes v Racing 27:50 - 30:30 Montpellier 30:30 - 34:00 La Rochelle 34:00 - 36:00 USAP v Pau 36:00 - 38:35 Bayonne 38:35 - 45:10 Clermont v Toulon 45:10 - 49:05 Round 6 Previews 49:05 - 50:55 Nationale Nibbles 50:55 - 58:50 King Mathieu’s Law Changes 58:50 - 1:05:58 Petit Fours & Digestifs     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fresh off the back of trips to Italy and err, Ipswich, Rob and Rich return to discuss UBB's stunning win over Toulouse, whilst Pau impress and Perpignan get off the mark in the Top 14. Storm clouds are gathering in Paris with Racing under pressure and Stade Francais the first to make big changes. Elsewhere, Biarritz are riding a Basque wave at the top of ProD2, and what connects Italian liqueurs, Damian Penaud's teeth and Martin Offiah? The Rosbifs Rugby Podcast of course… 00:00 - 06:25 Entrées 06:25 - 33:33 Top 14 Round 4 Review (inc. Stade Francais coaching changes 28:50 - 32:05) 33:33 - 36:45 Nationale Nibbles 35:45 - 51:50 Pro D2 Round 5 Review 51:50 - 57:50 Petit-Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

French Rugby Fun keeps on coming this week! In this bonus episode, the Rosbifs share the story of their trip last weekend to Brive & Castres to watch Pro D2 and Top14 rugby in the flesh! And it wouldn’t be Rosbifs without divulging the best of the food, drinks, towns and bars from their weekend. We are also delighted to be joined by Charles Richardson, Rugby Reporter for The Telegraph and one of only a couple of English writers invited to French Rugby’s grand awards ceremony, La Nuit du Rugby. Charles gives us the inside scoop on Antoine Dupont, Champagne & Foie Gras, and dancing with King Mathieu Raynal…   00:00 - 16:05 Brive Boys & Castres Carnage: Rosbifs Trip Review 16:06 - 45:31 La Nuit du Rugby: Charles Richardson Interview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's pure, unbridled rugby chat this week with an in-depth round up of the Top14 and ProD2, including reports from Castres and Brive where our Rosbifs report from on the ground. Elsewhere, there's a historic win for Vannes and a tough day out in Bordeaux for Owen Farrell and Racing 92. Join us tomorrow for a review of our first trip of the season into two proper rugby heartlands! 00:00 - 02:36 Entrées Top 14  02:36 - 11:10 Castres v Perpignan: Rosbifs Report 11:10 - 29:50 Top 14 Round 3 Review 29:50 - 33:05 Top 14 Round 4 Preview Pro D2 33:05 - 40:45 Pro D2 Round 4 Review 40:45 - 50:20 Brive v Aurillac: Rosbifs Report 50:20 - 53:45 Pro D2 Round 5 Preview 53:45 - 55:44 Bonus Episode Preview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another round of the Top 14 has been and gone and we examine the best of the action, as nerveless kicks and massive hits take centre stage across the weekend. Pro D2 continues to dazzle with tight results everywhere, and the Rosbifs look ahead to their upcoming French voyage to Brive and Castres in the only way they know how... a really nerdy quiz. 00:00 - 05:51 Entrées 05:51 - 36:32 Top 14 Round 2 Review 36:32 - 38:42 Nationale Nibbles 38:42 - 49:35 Pro D2 Round 3 Review 49:35 - 1:05:01 Petit-Fours & Digestifs: Brive & Castres Quiz Special Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Round 1 of the Top 14 has been and gone and the delicious storylines (and bad alliteration) are back with Blistering Bordeaux, Valiant Vannes, and Miserable Montpellier all on show. Pro D2 serves up another dose of high drama as the Away Day win becomes flavour of the month, and there's bagpipes, butchers and boring wedding guests to discuss.  00:00 - 05:05 Entrées 05:05 - 36:00 Top 14 Round 1 Review 36:00 - 39:20 Nationale Nibbles 39:20 - 50:30 Pro D2 Round 3 Review 50:30 - 57:50 Petit Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With Galthie's team known to all and sundry, we caught up bright and early to bring a preview France vs Japan as Les Bleus get their Autumn Nations campaign underway. Plus a look at some of our favourites from the Top14 and PROD2, who will be in action over the next few weeks!   00:00 - 01:15 Entrées 01:15 - 14:39 Creative Differences? 14:39 - 20:00 Centres Conundrum 20:00 - 24:15 Rise of Roumat 24:15 - 27:16 Prop Stars: The Rivals 27:16 - 34:42 Japan & Other Internationals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the week that France take on the All Blacks and a bumper round of PROD2 fixtures, who better to speak to than a man who knows both rugby worlds inside out, Soyaux Angoulême kiwi fly-half and former Top14 Player of the Year, Ben Botica. We sit down to chat rugby in the Charente, preview Les Bleus against New Zealand and get the inside line on Jonny May's team speeches. There's also a review of France vs Japan, drama in Nationale, and a big mascot meet up in the Basque country. 00:00 - 02:50 Entrées 02:50 - 14:50 Les Bleus - France v Japan Review & France v NZ Preview 14:50 - 21:00 Pro D2 Round 10 21:00 - 53:05 Ben Botica Interview  53:05 - 56:53 Nationale Nibbles 56:53 - 1:04:47 Petit-Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're back from the Stade de France, mesmerised by bright lights of Paris and feeling grateful if a little dusty for a splendid weekend in the French Capital. France and New Zealand served up a belter full of intrigue, momentum swings and some cracking individual performances - we attempt to run the rule over the highlight of the Autumn series so far. There's also the usual smattering of domestic rugby chatter and some dark tales of missed flights for one of the pair... 00:00 - 07:45 Entrées 0745 - 12:35 Stade de France Match Day 12:35 - 34:05 France v NZ 34:05 - 41:30 Top 14 Round 10 Preview 41:30 - 50:15 Pro D2 Round 11 Review 50:15 - 51:50 Nationale Nibbles 51:50 - 1:00:53 Petit-Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're reeling out the clichés this week, reflecting upon a highly promising autumn for Les Bleus after their convincing win over Argentina. Who were the winners and losers from the November tests, who has nailed down a 6 Nations berth and just how big a pay rise should the Stade de France events team be getting?! If that's not enough, the Top14 is back, and it was merry carnage followed by second-half heartbreak in Brittany, whilst France 7s plot their path to short-form domination following World Rugby Awards for Antoine Dupont and Jérôme Daret. 00:00 - 04:35 Entrées 04:35 - 11:05 France v Argentina review 11:05 - 29:52 France Autumn Nations Series Report Card 29:52 - 56:25 Top 14 Round 10 Review 56:25 - 58:50 Next weekend preview 58:50 - 1:06:05 Petit-Fours & Digestifs  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Slightly dazed from a long weekend watching European rugby somewhere other than France, we run through the best of the weekend's action. In a week of eye-catching away wins, Vannes produce the result of the season away at La Rochelle with Toulouse and Toulon doing the business in Paris and Perpignan. Down in PROD2, Grenoble continue to set the pace whilst Oyonnax are in freefall, and there's a remarkable tale of protest in the lower leagues in this week's Petit-Fours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

European Rugby is back baby! Loads of matches, loads of dramas, loads of brilliant cup shirts! We look ahead to whether any of the chasing French pack can mount a realistic challenge to Toulouse and preview the key 1st round encounters in the Champions Cup. As ever there's a sprinkling of travel looking ahead to potential European Cup and lower league double headers, it's a historic weekend (again) for Vannes with yards to travel, and who is Richard's outside bet for Challenge Cup glory? 00:00 - 07:21 Entrées: Long Weeks & Long Weekends 07:21 - 14:41 A Game of 'Will they turn up?' 14:41 - 20:20 Title Contenders 20:20 - 31:32 Games in Focus Bath v La Rochelle Stormers v Toulon Racing 92 v Harlequins Union Bordeaux Begles v Leicester Tigers Toulouse v Ulster 31:32 - 36:00 Best of the Rest ft. Debut of Dreams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Round 1 of the Champions and Challenge Cup has passed, and there is so much rugby to digest! La Rochelle dispel the naysayers at a sodden Bath, Bordeaux turn on the style against a wily Tigers side, whilst Racing's Fijians bring the pain to Harlequins in Creteil. Amidst the glitz of Europe, ProD2 continued to serve up some crackers, begging the question what's more important, a solid defence or a tidy Instagram page? Plus the GOAT debate is reignited, but has Antoine Dupont hit enough Devon hole-in-ones to secure the crown? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's week 2 and amidst the Champions and Challengers, the French Big Hitters continue to put down a marker in 'Europe', with Toulouse, La Rochelle and Bordeaux putting in big showings across the board. How do you solve a problem like South Africa, and is the demise of quality competition in the Champions Cup really anything new? Stade Francais probably won't need to worry about the latter rounds as they descend further into the disciplinary doldrums, whilst Castres serve up an all time non-classic for the ages. There's loads happening in PROD2, and we reveal exclusively who Greg Alldritt listens to pre-game to get fired up! 00:00 - 04:26 Entrées: Travel Woes 04:26 - 31:41 Champions Cup Round 2 31:41 - 35:27 Challenge Cup Round 2 35:27 - 42:05 Champions Cup Conundrum 42:05 - 43:20 Nationale Nibbles 43:20 - 50:36 Pro D2 Round 14 50:36 - 58:26 Petit Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There wasn't much festive cheer in the Top14 this weekend, with good old fashioned scraps aplenty and yellow cards more abundant than undercooked sprouts, particularly at La Rochelle who battled out an epic against Father Christmas/Christoph Urios's Clermont. Lyon are frustrated by Toulouse, the PROD2 boys are lining up a well earned break, and there are three rounds of Rosbifs Christmas Quiz to tuck into. Joyeux Noël! 00:00 - 05:48 Entrées: Stashing up for Christmas 05:48 - 28:10 Top 14 Round 12  28:10 - 32:30 Christmas Quiz - Top 14  32:42 - 39:25 Pro D2 Round 15 39:25 - 45:33 Christmas Quiz - Pro D2  45:46 - 58:22 Petit-Fours & Digestif and Christmas Quiz Finale Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At the halfway point of the Top14 season, we review an intriguing if foggy round of fixtures with notable wins for Montpellier and Pau, whilst Racing continue to shoot themselves in both feet. As we bid adieu to 2024, we reflect on the year that saw the trickle of British players to France become a tide and look ahead to what's on the menu in 2025. 00:00 - 09:05 Entrées 09:05 - 44:20 Top 14 Round 13 44:33 - 55:45 Reflections & Resolutions 55:58 - 1:02:43 Petit-Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New year, new kids on the block... the youth of Toulouse gave La Rochelle an almighty scare as the Marcel Deflandre goes 100 games sold out! The Rosbifs derby produced a nail-biter, Toulon and Baptiste Serin produced some artistry, and the impending return of Champions Cup action will no doubt produce some exquisitely mixed attempts from the French sides! As usual, we also tackle all the pressing issues of the day, including Dry January and Ballet dancers in the Biarritz Lineout. 00:00 - 03:10 Entrées: A French ‘Dry’ January 03:10 Top 14 Round 14: 03:28 - 17:54 La Rochelle v Toulouse 17:54 - 20:35 Rosbifs Derby: Castres v Pau 25:36 - 31:53 Toulon v Racing 92 31:53 - 39:12 Vannes v Clermont 39:24 - 42:08 Nationale & Pro D2 42:08 - 53:54 Champions Cup Round 3 Preview 53:54 - 57:03 Challenge Cup Round 3 Preview 57:16 - 01:06:38 Petit-Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Champions and Challenge Cups were back, with La Rochelle and Leinster treating us another classic chapter in their burgeoning rivalry. Meanwhile it was a sweat bath in Durban and a bloodbath in Devon and Toulouse and Bordeaux cemented their positions as the best of the French pack. Can anyone stop Montpellier in the Challenge Cup? Perhaps Bayonne, who racked up points and air miles in Tblisi. ProD2 and Nationale are back, and the Marcel Michelin is transformed for a very special evening... Chapters 00:00 - 02:55 - Entrées: Stash in the Dark Champions Cup Round 3 02:55 - 17:00 La Rochelle v Leinster 17:00 - 27:20 Sharks v Toulouse 27:20 - 31:05 Exeter v UBB 31:05 - 33:20 Castres v Bulls / Bath v Clermont 33:20 - 38:05 Stade Francais v Northampton 38:05 - 41:20 Glasgow v Racing 92 41:20 - 46:45 Toulon v Harlequins 46:45 - 52:00 Champion Cup Round 4 preview 52:00 - 53:55 Challenge Cup Round up Interlude 54:10 - 56:20 Nationale Nibbles 56:20 - 1:02:20 Pro D2 Round 16 Review Interlude 1:02:30 - 1:11:30 Petit-Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The group stages of European rugby are over, and it was a vintage one for the French sides with 12 progressing to the last 16 of both the Champions and Challenge Cups. Damian Penaud goes wild against the Sharks, Toulouse monster Leicester and their less heralded neighbours produce the shock of the round as unfancied Castres smash Saracens in North London. We've got ProD2 action to digest as George North makes his home debut, plus we'll be looking ahead to the first Rosbifs outing of 2025. 00:00 - 03:30 Entrées: Carbon Offsetting Champions Cup Round 4 03:30 - 06:45 Champions Cup Hors d'oeuvres 06:45 - 12:25 Toulouse v Leicester 12:25 - 19:00 Saracens v Castres 19:00 - 25:00 Clermont v Bristol 25:00 - 40:55 Champions Cup State of Play & Challenge Cup Round 4  41:07 - 52:03 Pro D2 Round 17 52:16 - 56:20 Controversies: Jegou/Auradou 56:20 - 1:04:21 Petit-Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fresh off the back of the first Rosbifs trip of 2025, we have on the ground reports across all three leagues, as we dive deep into Bordeaux's shock defeat to Lyon, Soyaux Angouleme putting a marker down against Dax, and Périgueux defy the rain for a bonus point win against Lille's finest. There's the normal round up of Top14 action in a round that saw the pace setters falter, food and brass band reviews from each of the grounds visited and more than a word on Alex Masibaka, whose Scotland called up has surprised a few... unless you saw him on Friday night! 00:00 - 01:55 Entrées 01:55 - 14:45 Rosbifs' Report from Bordeaux: UBB v Lyon 14:45 - 20:20 Top 14 Round 15 review - part 1 20:20 - 26:08 Racing 92 v Castres & Owen Farrell 26:08 - 28:25 Top 14 Round 15 review - part 2 28:25 - 35:55 Rosbifs' Report from Périgueux: Nationale Round 17 35:55 - 37:30 Pro D2 Round 18 review 37:30 - 46:56 Rosbifs' Report from Angouleme: SAXV v Dax 46:56 - 49:46 Petit-Fours & Digestifs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Six Nations is upon us! France have announced their first side, and we'll be dissecting that, as well as looking ahead to Les Bleus hopes for the tournament in this bonus pod. Enjoy! 00:00 - 05:43 Entrées: French as Favourites? 05:43 - 15:23 France: Comment Ça Va? 15:23 - 18:45 Return of the DupontaMack 18:45 - 23:20 Quiz of Captains 23:20 - 29:25 Should they bench the 6-2 Split? 29:25 - 39:05 Six Nations Debuts 39:05 - 44:46 Aperitif: France v Wales Preview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices