TOP 14 Drilldown: Popelin the 10 O'Gara ordered. Toulouse hot on double-double trail

And then there was one. After four rounds of the Top 14 campaign, Toulouse are the only side yet to lose a game.

La Rochelle's Pierre Popelin runs with the ball and scores a try during the French Top 14 rugby union match between La Rochelle and Biarritz at the Marcel Deflandre Stadium in La Rochelle, western France, on September 25, 2021. (Photo by XAVIER LEOTY/AFP via Getty Images)

Four matches into the season is not the time to predict how the championship will play out - but it’s hard, right now, to look beyond the defending champions.

They didn’t have it all their own way against an inspired Clermont on Sunday, far from it, but they found it in them to win comfortably enough in the end. As statements go, it was as clear as they come. Toulouse are thinking of a double-double.