The Top 14 season rolls into Round 16, as the grueling schedule prepares — like the URC and Gallagher PREM — for a Six Nations hiatus.

The global club rugby game delivered another decisive weekend, as Japan Rugby League One and the United Rugby Championship both produced results that reshaped domestic races and nudged the wider professional landscape forward.

The biggest match in rugby this week will throw down in southeast France, as Toulouse, the back-to-back-to-back Top 14 champion, takes on upstart Pau in one of the biggest Top 14 match of the season.

Round 4 of the Investec Champions Cup pool stage did what it always promises - it clarified the contenders, hardened the pretenders and turned home advantage into the next battleground.

The defending Investec Champions Cup winners will start the next playoffs as the top seed of this year’s knockout stage.

Pool 3 of the Investec Champions Cup reaches a dramatic conclusion at Stade Marcel-Deflandre, where La Rochelle and Harlequins meet with very different pressures, but equally high stakes.

One of the most anticipated matchups of Round 4 arrives at Ashton Gate, as the Bristol Bears host Bordeaux in a Pool 4 clash with major implications for playoff seeding.

Pool 2 of the Investec Champions Cup reaches a decisive inflection point at Kingsholm, as Gloucester Rugby hosts Toulon in the FloRugby Match of the Week.

One of the most familiar fixtures in Investec Champions Cup history returns to Thomond Park with Pool 2 still wide open and no team yet assured of a place in the knockout rounds.

Round 4 of Pool 1 in the Investec Champions Cup delivers one of the most consequential fixtures of the weekend, as Toulouse hosts the Sale Sharks at Stade Ernest-Wallon.

Pool 3 of the Investec Champions Cup closes with sharply contrasting motivations, as Bayonne hosts Leinster Rugby at Stade Jean Dauger.

The final round of Investec Champions Cup pool play brings urgency and consequence to Durban, as the Hollywoodbets Sharks host Clermont with knockout hopes hanging in the balance.

Round 4 of the EPCR Challenge Cup arrives with very little left to hide.

The Investec Champions Cup pool stage reaches a decisive point, as Pau hosts the Vodacom Bulls with postseason implications squarely in focus.

Then there were three.