Watch every second of Super Rugby Pacific live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nRugby.com.au breaks down the weekend that was.<\/p>\n
Champions Cup<\/p>\n
Northampton winger James Ramm has a massive impact on his return to the wing in the 35-27 win over Jack Maddocks’ Pau.<\/p>\n
Ramm, playing in his first game since September, crossed for a double before finding himself red-carded for a dangerous mid-air tackle off a kick restart.<\/p>\n
Fellow Saint Josh Kemeny helped secure the win with the former Waratah watching from the sidelines, securing the eight-point victory over the Top 14 side.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Tolu Latu had a successful start for La Rochelle at hooker, making all 13 throws in the 39-20 win over Leicester, who were without James O’Connor.<\/p>\n
Fellow ex-Wallaby Adam Coleman also produced a solid effort for Bordeaux away from home in South Africa, logging 80 minutes in the 46-33 win over the Bulls.<\/p>\n
Further matches included Irae Simone and Alex Newsome starting together in the centres in a 47-10 defeat to Saracens, while Sam Talakai came off the bench for Glasgow in their 26-21 win over Sale.<\/p>\n
Champions Cup<\/p>\n
Wallabies star prop Angus Bell had a perfect start to life in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
Bell came on in the 53rd minute for Ulster, recording three tackle busts and two offloads in a monster 61-7 win over Racing 92.<\/p>\n
It started a strong weekend for the Wallabies contingency in the second-tier competition, with Len Ikitau crossing for the opener in Exeter’s 42-12 win against the Cheetahs.<\/p>\n
Ikitau had three tackle busts and a line break in the victory.<\/p>\n
Newly capped Samoan Scott Sio also scored in the rout, with Tom Hooper a standout in a strong forwards performance.<\/p>\n
Jordan Petaia has found his feet at Perpignan, setting up a try at fullback as they defeated Dragons 41-17.<\/p>\n
Hooker Jordan Uelese was another who found the line, scoring a crucial try in the 24-13 victory over Georgian side Black Lion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A host of Wallabies and Australian-born talent have dominated the opening round of European Club Competitions. It included…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,97542,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-334037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-aussies-abroad","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-rugby","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334037","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=334037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}