HURSDAY 18TH of April started a long weekend of French rugby where both the ProD2 and Top14 were in action. If you made the trip, you could watch Provence v Mont-de-Marsan on Thursday at 9pm, then Soyaux-Angouleme v Brive at 7pm on Friday, followed by five matches at 7.30pm in ProD2. You could cap the night off with Biarritz v Grenoble at 9pm.
The Top14 came in on Saturday with games at 3pm, 5pm, 9pm, with a further match at 9pm on Sunday. That’s eight distinct time windows and seven games you could watch in their entirety.
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