Top 14 Drilldown: Toulon sink into deepening existential crisis

French rugby fans were treated to no fewer than four no-quarter Top 14 matches, postponed from earlier in the season because of Covid

Bordeaux-Begles' French scrum-half Yann Lesgourgues (C) is blocked by Toulon's South African lock Eben Etzebeth (2ndR) during the French Top 14 rugby union match between Toulon (RCT) and Union Bordeaux-Begles (UBB) at the Mayol stadium in Toulon on February 12, 2022. (Photo by CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU / AFP) (Photo by CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

Someone ramped up the weekend’s rugby in France to 11.

There were two enthralling all-in Six Nations encounters in Aix-en-Provence and Saint-Denis - France-Ireland are one-all this year heading into the women’s Six Nations match in Toulouse on April 2.