Watch Leinster do a Marseille number on Toulon
That figure is the highest it’s ever been and, according to the DNACG, “confirms the loss-making management of professional rugby”. But in typical French fashion, it just wasn’t mentioned this week. There wasn’t a single conversation over lunch about it.
The angle the French media took missed the point completely. They praised the good boys — Toulon and Brive — as they were the only clubs in the black, as opposed to highlighting the problems of some other clubs.
