Top 14 drilldown: O'Gara frustrated after Toulon trimming: If this is our best, we're in trouble

Asked what was missing from La Rochelle performance at Stade Mayo, O’Gara said: “Speed. Aggressiveness. Precision - which makes it easy to understand where we are now.” 

La Rochelle's Fijian centre Eneriko Buliruarua scores a try at Toulon's Stade Mayol but it was one of the few bright moments for Ronan O'Gara's men.

With most rugby hearts and minds focused on the final weekend of the Six Nations, four Top 14 teams were also in action, using up what was otherwise a fallow weekend for French men’s professional rugby to catch up on matches postponed from earlier in the season.

As it turned out, Ronan O’Gara would have been happier sitting in front of his tv watching Ireland roll over Scotland in Dublin than pitchside at Toulon, where his La Rochelle were well beaten; while Toulouse’s France internationals Romain Ntamack and Francois Cros were in the crowd to watch Ugo Mola’s stripped back young side beat league leaders Montpellier.