Watch every second of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nRugby.com.au breaks down the best from the weekend in ‘Aussies Abroad.’<\/p>\n
France<\/p>\n
Jordan Petaia has opened his account for Perpignan after a powerful performance off the bench.<\/p>\n
The former Red had two line breaks and five tackle busts to go with the try as they went down 37-32 to Bordeaux.<\/p>\n
Fellow Aussie Jake McIntyre had a try assist, while former Wallabies and Waratahs enforcer Lachie Swinton recorded 17 tackles on the opposite time.<\/p>\n
Jack Maddocks continued his strong form for Pau, scoring and busting seven tackles in their 24-19 win over Clermont. It’s Maddocks’ third try in four games, while Irae Simone and Rob Simmons came off the bench for Clermont.<\/p>\n
Tom Banks’ unbeaten run with Montpellier continues, crossing in a 36-33 win over Castres. Banks has won nine for the French powerhouse, with Jordan Uelese also starting at hooker.<\/p>\n
In other games, Taniela Tupou came off the bench for Racing 92 in a 43-28 win over Toulon, while Tolu Latu started for La Rochelle in a 38-10 win over Toulouse.<\/p>\n
England<\/p>\n
Len Ikitau added to his try-scoring account for Exeter as they went down to Harlequins.<\/p>\n
Ikitau scored and had two line breaks in a powerful performance for the centre. He came off with the Chiefs up 24-19, but watched them fall away, 41-24.<\/p>\n
Flanker Josh Kemeny got in on the fun for Northampton in a thumping victory over Bristol.<\/p>\n
The former Rebel scored in the 37th minute as the Saints produced a remarkable 94-33 win over the Bears.<\/p>\n
James O’Connor got the start for Leicester, although he limped off after 12 minutes in their 47-33 victory over Sale.<\/p>\n
URC<\/p>\n
It was a tough weekend for a lot of the Aussies as the regular season came to an end.<\/p>\n
Angus Bell’s Ulster went down 26-22 to Sam Talakai’s Glasgow, ending their finals hopes. Coming into the last round in eighth, they missed out on the finals after Munster’s win over the Lions.<\/p>\n
Bell’s final game for Ulster will come in Saturday’s Challenge Cup Final against Montpellier, before returning home to Australia.<\/p>\n
Former Waratahs teammates Archer Holtz and Max Douglas both started for Scarlets in their 35-all draw with Dragons, with Ospreys playmaker Jack Walsh involved in a 68-14 loss to Leinster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a host of Australians in action across the weekend as the European competitions heat up before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,97542,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-679880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-aussies-abroad","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679880","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=679880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}