Rabah Slimani: 'Leinster have a team to beat Bordeaux'

It'll be Toulon next term for the Frenchman.

EXIT INTERVIEW: Rabah Slimani during Leinster Rugby squad training this week. Pic: INPHO/Tom Maher

Rabah Slimani will kickstart another chapter in his career when he switches to Toulon this summer, but there were no divided loyalties last week as he helped his current side past his future employers in the Champions Cup semi-finals.

His knowledge of the French scrummaging mindset and techniques, and of front row threats like Jean-Baptiste Gros, Kyle Sinckler and Teddy Baubigny, can’t have hurt. All “small things to dominate the Toulon scrum”, as he said himself.