Champions Cup chaos 🔥 French Giants Rampant in knockout carnage

The Champions Cup last 16 delivered absolute carnage — huge scorelines, big momentum swings and one of the clearest examples you’ll see of how a game can completely flip.

This week on Maul or Nothing, we break down the defining moments of the weekend — from Bath’s front-row impact to Bordeaux running riot — plus everything else across a stacked knockout round.

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🧠 INSIDE THE EPISODE:

•🏉 Bath 31–22 Saracens — how the front-row switches flipped the entire game

•💥 Thomas du Toit masterclass (MOTM performance)

•🔁 Can a referee change shift momentum mid-game?

•⚔️ Barbeary vs Willis — elite No.8 battle

•🔴 Bordeaux 64–14 Leicester — try-of-the-season madness (LBB, Penaud, Rayasi)

•🌍 Toulon vs Stormers thriller + Sale edge Quins

•🐻 Bristol Bears — where it slipped, and why it was already gone

👉 “14–14 while Lahiff was on… damage done before that.”

•🇫🇷 Max’s French food jaunt 🍷

•💼 Courtney Lawes to Sale & England implications

•💰 Henry Pollock the millionaire?!

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🎙️ ALSO:

•Ryan LIVE at Saints vs Castres — including that interview moment

•Plus Glasgow vs Bulls & Leinster vs Edinburgh

•Listener reaction to the now infamous “prostate episode”…

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12:57 Bears season prospects from here

19:08 NORD VPN

21:31 Northampton Saints v Castre

24:21 Henry Pollock signing for Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Agency

28:57 Saints v Castres cont. - thoughts from the pitch side pundit

32:57 The Ryan Wilson comeback!

35:13 Bath v Saris

39:32 Alfie Barbeary

43:00 Return of the Lawmaker - Courtney Lawes to Sale (and England?)

45:02 Geoff Parling v Craig Doyle

46:55 Glasgow Warriors v Bulls

50:59 Toulon v Stormers

53:36 Bordeaux v Leicester

58:11 Quins v Sale

59:32 Jibulu's biting citing

01:02:12 Leinster v Edinburgh

01:03:13 Reiko Ioane; Smell My Finger

01:04:22 Champions Cup QF Predictions

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