The match was stopped twice because of potentially serious injuries – one to a visiting player and the other to teenager Michael Le Bourgeois, who was taken to hospital. Both have recovered.
As the game was so one-sided, it was over as a contest by the 15th minute, following tries from Sam Tuia (2), Jim Brownrigg and Donovan Sanders plus four excellent conversions by Dan Hawkes.
However, for Rennes, a Federale Division 2 side, their director of rugby, Guillaume Commeat, said it had been a ‘useful exercise’ as he fielded a young, unproven team of mainly 21 and 22 year-olds, most of them from university, with only three players aged 25 or above and only six members of his regular first XV.
