{"id":332832,"date":"2025-12-07T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332832\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:27:08","slug":"champions-challenge-cup-rugby-live-live-text-and-score-updates-from-pau-v-northampton-saints-and-other-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332832\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions &#038; Challenge Cup rugby LIVE: Live text and score updates from Pau v Northampton Saints and other games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team newspublished at 12:43 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:43 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Pau v Northampton (13:00 GMT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pau, who are second in the Top 14 after eight wins in 11 games, are captained by Argentina hooker Julian Montoya, with fellow Puma Facundo Isa at number eight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Wasps and England scrum-half Dan Robson starts, while ex-Saracens lock Joel Kpoku is among the replacements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alex Mitchell will make his 150th appearance for Northampton and Tom Pearson will play in a Saints shirt for the 50th time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">George Furbank captains Saints with George Hendy and James Ramm both recovering from injury to start on the wings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rory Hutchinson and Fraser Dingwall are in the centres with Fin Smith at fly-half. Alex Coles returns to the side following the autumn internationals, Henry Pollock is on the bench and Tommy Freeman is unavailable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pau: Luc; Arfeuil, Maddocks, Decron, Laporte; Desperes, Robson; Etchebehere, Rey, Zabala Arrieta, Jolmes, Picquette, Zegueur, Credoz, Isa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Replacements: Seneca, Papidze, Capelli, Kpoku, Hewat, Souverbie, Valentino.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northampton: Furbank; Ramm, Hutchinson, Dingwall, Hendy; Smith, Mitchell; Fischetti, Wright, Davison, Coles, van der Mescht, Kemeny, Pearson, Chick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Replacements: Smith, Iyogun, Kundiona, Prowse, Pollock, Graham, James, Thame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team newspublished at 12:43 GMT 12:43 GMT Pau v Northampton (13:00 GMT) Pau, who are second in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-332832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}