Scrum of the Earth /

And what did we learn from our French lesson this week?

Pretty shirts wins you no favours as Stade Francais dropped to their second successive defeat handing over the lead to champions Toulouse. Thierry Dusautoir's second-half score got the better of Andy Goode's booming boot.

Any star pupils?

Top of the class was Fijian flyer Vilimoni Delasau, who ran in three tries to leave Tana Umaga's head on a plate at Toulon. It seems Mourad Boudjellal is picking them off one by one after Jean-Jacques Crenca's dismissal last week.

So, Clermont have been doing their homework?

With a little help from the weather gods, as soon as crackerjack scrum-half Pierre Mignoni went over after five minutes the writing was on the wall for the Parisian artists.