French rugby.: The 23rd and 24th round of the French Championship.

Due to vacancy, I will resume the results of the 23rd and 24th round of the French Championship.
Lets deals with results of these two turns :

The 23th turn :

Friday, April 17th 2009
20:35	Biarritz	12-10	Perpignan
Saturday, April 18th 2009
14:30	Mont-de-Marsan	21-15	Castres
	Stade Français	24-15	Montpellier
	Bayonne	61-10	Bourgoin
	Clermont	52-7	Brive
16:30	Toulon	14-6	Toulouse
20:35	Montauban	15-20	Dax

The 24th turn :

Friday, April 24th 2009
20:35	Castres	16-21	Stade Français
Saturday, April 25th 2009
14:30	Montpellier	20-11	Bayonne
	Biarritz	19-12	Toulon
	Toulouse	13-6	Bourgoin
	Montauban	15-10	Brive
16:30	Perpignan	20-16	Clermont
20:35	Dax	12-8	Mont-de-Marsan

At the moment of the 23rd round, we have saw lot of touchdown. The two best matches was Clermont against Brive with seven touchdowns, and Bayonne against Bourgoin with 8 touchdowns.
The best rugby-player of this turn was Sam Gerber, who is the 3/4 center of Bayonne, with 4 touchdowns.

Sam Gerber : copyright : Equipe.fr

An other big surprise was the defeat of Toulouse, the leader of the French championship, against Toulon. Before this match Toulon was the 12th of the championship. This defeat has for effect that Perpignan has took the first place.

For the 24th round, there was no many touchdown and any surprise.
The strength team won their match. Perpignan has preserved his first place with the victory against the 4th : Clermont.

See below the ranking after this turn :

Team	Pts	pts bonus	W.	N.	L.	+	-	Diff.
1 Perpignan	83	9	18	1	5	564	339	225
2 Toulouse	83	7	19	0	5	522	307	215
3 Stade Français	76	10	16	1	7	583	383	200
4 Clermont	73	15	14	1	9	613	361	252
5 Biarritz	62	10	13	0	11	462	376	86
6 Bayonne	61	5	13	2	9	435	442	-7
7 Brive	60	6	12	3	9	434	444	-10
8 Montauban	53	9	10	2	12	466	515	-49
9 Montpellier	50	6	11	0	13	387	517	-130
10 Castres	43	9	7	3	14	424	474	-50
11 Toulon	42	10	7	2	15	364	473	-109
12 Bourgoin	40	10	7	1	16	401	557	-156
13 Dax	37	7	7	1	16	360	537	-177
14 Mont-de-Marsan	29	7	5	1	18	314	604	-290

Now, it stay just two turn. Perpignan and Toulouse play for the first place. Stade Français and Clermont play for the 3rd place.
Biarritz, Bayonne and Brive play for a place at the H cup (International cup).
Castres, Toulon, Bougoin and Dax play to stay in the top14.

For Mont-de-Marsan, they lower to the ProD2 the next year.