Toulouse Olympique

Young Warrington prop Charlie McClare is actually being hailed the hit of the season in the rugby league circles, which is crazy.

They were playing in the English Super League final game of the season against Toulouse.

I mentioned it was Warrington Wolves, so a little bit of context.

The ball's been kicked through by Warrington into the dead ball area.

Nice little grubber.

Romeo Trapez of the Toulouse Olympique tries to run it out from the dead ball area.

And then Charles McClare, young kid, okay, goes straight through and absolutely smashes him.

Upright, tucked arm, and basically... doesn't knock him out but he floors Romeo Trapez of Toulouse and then a fight ensues off the back of it and I'm watching it unfold right you've got the kids in Warrington northerners right they're loving it tough as nails hard road men families and they're loving the hit right and there's all this kind of hysteria around it the interesting thing for me was the commentators there was a lady commentator and she said it looks right to me there was a rap no there wasn't There was no rap.

So a bit of a strange one for Saints at the moment.

As I say, eighth spot, Toulouse Olympique.

What a season they've had in the end.

Ten wins for Silva Niles and that team.

Good team.

Good to watch.

Good for the comp, dare I say, Toulouse Olympique.

They're 8th at the moment on 20 points.

But when you look at that Warrington team, Bill, and then you compare and contrast it to the entertainers, we said it last night.

You know, if you're looking in the bottom half of the table, there's no other team in the bottom half of the table that has entertained neutrals as much as Toulouse Olympique in 2026.

They have been a breath of fresh air.

Some of their key, key players are there.

This one is absolutely...

It just says everything about Toulouse.

If you, if you could encapture Toulouse Olympique this season in terms of the entertainment factor, the no fear factor, the expression, everything, that try does it.

It's a beautiful try.

Yeah, Catalan, I've no idea what's going to turn up.

Moving on, Warrington v Toulouse.

Yeah, Warrington win.

I'm just thinking that to lose that, they're a difficult team though, aren't they? Yeah, it's a tough game

So, yeah, I think Warrington at home.

Yeah, I too think Warrington.

Yeah, Toulouse, obviously, Olly Ashall-Bott came on for a cameo appearance.

He breaks his ribs in the act of scoring a try.

I think we'll finish fourth.

I think Wire will beat Toulouse.

I think Toulouse have been fantastic recently, but Warrington will finish third.

I think we'll play OK at home in the playoffs.

It's gonna be hard, but I think we'll beat them.

Well, that game against Leeds was the only home game they've lost all season.

So, yeah, if they finish, if they beat Toulouse on the last day of the season, apparently that'll be a club record.

for regular season home victories so yeah they've gone well at home they're really really good at backfield as well second overall for metres gained and that's something we've got to be really on this weekend but they're also really efficient in defence a bit like us really you know they've only missed 658 tackles this year which I think Might be top, might be second behind Wigan, I'm not sure.

But that's just to compare.

They've had three good winning blocks.

But one of those blocks, they were quite poor.

I remember they played Toulouse away and sort of scraped through 24-16 in round 11.

Played Bradford at home, and Bradford weren't going well, and they scraped through 26-12.

We're doing a great job and, as I say, he'll be even better after he has a pre-season.

That last home game of yours against Toulouse, that was one of the shocks of the season, really.

Obviously, a shock from your point of view, I guess.

But did you manage to put your finger on what was the problem there and why your team didn't really perform? I thought Toulouse actually deserved a lot of credit that

day.

Yeah, Toulouse were outstanding.

They

did play extremely well, didn't they? You just need to be...