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Kotaro Matsushima took his season try tally up to seven in nine games with his hat-trick at Ashton Gate Geoff Caddick Text size
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Clermont coach Franck Azema praised blossoming Kotaro Matsushima after the Japan full-back scored a hat-trick of tries as the Top 14 giants opened their European Champions Cup campaign with a 51-38 bonus-point win at Bristol on Saturday.
Matsushima s tries took his season tally to seven in nine games as Clermont, the three-time runners-up, dominated the second-tier European Challenge Cup holders with some scintillating expansive play. We feel whether it s on or off the field in daily life he s blossoming. He feels good, he smiles, so we re happy. That s why we signed him, Azema told Sud Radio.
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George Moala has scored 20 tries in 52 Clermont appearances since joining the club in 2018 Lionel BONAVENTURE Text size
Clermont s ex-All Blacks centre George Moala admitted to having had a difficult six weeks sidelined with a head injury ahead of Saturday s trip to Bristol Bears in the opening round of the European Champions Cup.
Moala, 30, won the last of his four Test caps for New Zealand in 2016 and has played just three games since suffering the original problem in a Top 14 game at Bayonne in September.
In a potential landmark case concerning brain injuries in professional rugby union, England World Cup winner Steve Thompson was among a group of ex-internationals who on Tuesday announced they were planning legal action against rugby authorities over lack of protection from the risks caused by concussion.
Scottish Rugby linked to South African second-row David Meihuizen
23-year-old has been offered an absolute fortune according to Western Province head coach John Dobson
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THE business may be facing an £18million drop in turnover (at least), the audited accounts have still not arrived, and grassroots clubs are agonising about what the future holds, but Scottish Rugby’s appetite for overseas imports appears unabated, with the latest news out of South Africa being that 23-year-old Western Province second-row David Meihuizen is a target of Murrayfield’s ‘Scottish Qualified’ recruitment programme.
John Dobson to local press yesterday. “There have been informal approaches via his agent. In Scotland, if you get a 2.08m and 123kg player, that’s a big unit. I know he qualifies for England and Scotland.