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It was definitely more of a grind than a romp. Is that the normal rugby pitch in Montpellier - it was very cutup & muddy even before they started the game!
No, quite surprised at that. Did they use a football pitch, or was it the rugby stadium?
Had to google bc outside of the 5 big international stadiums I have no idea where any of these grounds are. Its apparently GGL Stadium which is the ground for Montpellier Hérault who are a top 14 side so i'd assume are the Montpellier.
Its quite a nice looking stadium (apart from the state of the pitch), but another opportunity to be shocked that a metropolitan population of 800k or so has their rugby team in a 16k capacity ground - that's not much bigger than McLean Park which services maybe around 160-180k :)
A reminder that even though there's loads of money in Rugby in France and it is big, its not football big!