Rugby Pass: Agen’s season from hell: Airport fights, walks outs and conceding 42 points a game

There’s rugby … and,
then, there’s French rugby

An in-depth look at Agen’s season from hell for Rugby Pass, my first article for them for a while.

Demolition work on the tribune Ferrasse at Stade Armandie began on Monday. It’s impossible not to see it as a metaphor for the Agen Top 14 season. It had started reasonably well. Gabriel Ibitoye had scored two tries in under ten minutes on his French league debut and Agen were leading at home – but then their season started to fall apart.

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There’s rugby … and,
then, there’s French rugby