Wulf-fired Toulon thrash Brive
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Toulon put their kicking concerns to one side and maximised on a red card to surge to provisional number one spot in the Top 14 with a convincing, bonus-point 53-13 victory over Brive.
Bernard Laporte's expensively-assembled team put aside last weekend's defeat by Stade Francais, marked by 20 missed kickable points, to run in eight tries to one against a Brive team that played with 14 men for 53 minutes after Peet Marais' sending-off for violent play.
"Our state of mind really pleased me," said Laporte.
"The red card helped us but it was the way we started that really pleased me.
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Bernard Laporte's expensively-assembled team put aside last weekend's defeat by Stade Francais, marked by 20 missed kickable points, to run in eight tries to one against a Brive team that played with 14 men for 53 minutes after Peet Marais' sending-off for violent play.
"Our state of mind really pleased me," said Laporte.
"The red card helped us but it was the way we started that really pleased me.
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