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FINAL
PERPIGNAN 6-16 ASM CLERMONT AUVERGNE 
STADE DE FRANCE – Saturday 29th May 2010
Attendance: 95,000
CLERMONT Auvergne were finally crowned French champions at the 11th time of asking after they eked out a 16-6 win over defending title-holders Perpignan in the Stade de France to claim the highly-prized Bouclier de Brennus.
Labelled French rugby’s biggest chokers, Clermont capitalised on a poor day at the office for Perpignan’s fly-half Jerome Porical, who missed four out of six shots at goal while Clermont scrum-half Morgan Parra was calmness personified from start to finish.
Parra landed the killer blow 19 minutes from the end, a minute after Porical had missed his fourth shot at goal, to take Clermont ten points clear in a disjointed second half from which battling Perpignan deserved so much more.
Tension was high right from the off, which resulted in a dust-up between the two packs and a typically blunt dressing down from referee Christophe Berdos.
Both sides missed penalties in the opening five minutes before Parra finally scored the first points of the game in the tenth minute.
Five minutes later, Clermont scored the opening and only try, wing Napolioni Nalaga forcing his way over after a quick line-out and a clever break by fly-half Brock James, whose pass set Nalaga up to dive between the legs of Nicolas Durand, playing his last game for the Catalans.
Parra converted that and then landed his second penalty after Porical had made it 10-6 with two of his own.
Porical missed his second of the night just before half-time in a match in which had seen Clermont enjoy 65 per cent possession thus far without translating enough of it into points or clear scoring chances.
The second half was a much more even affair as Perpignan dug out a hefty kitchen sink to throw at the Clermont defence but, again, Porical let his side down when he missed a tough kick just after the break and a real sitter on the hour mark.
When Parra slotted his third kick to take his side two scores ahead, Perpignan heads dropped visibly. And when full-back Anthony Floch landed a drop-goal to extend the lead to 13 points, Clermont’s ten previous losing visits to the Top 14 final were dispatched to history.
Perpignan
P: Porical 2
Clermont Auvergne
T: Nalaga
C: Parra
P: Parra 3
DG: Floch 
SEMI FINALS
Friday 14th May, 2010
Perpignan 21 - 13 Toulouse
Saturday 15th May, 2010
Toulon 29 - 35 Clermont Auvergne
QUARTER FINALS
Friday 7th May 2010
Clermont Auvergne 21 - 17 Racing Métro 92
Saturday 8th May 2010
Toulouse 35 - 12 Castres
WEEK 26
Saturday 24th April 2010
Biarritz 19 - 26 Clermont Auvergne
Brive 23 - 26 Toulon
Montauban 22 - 8 Bayonne
Montpellier 34 - 27 Bourgoin-Jallieu
Perpignan 44 - 0 Albi
Stade Français 41 - 17 Racing Metro
Toulouse 25 - 17 Castres
WEEK 25
Friday 16th April 2010
Clermont Auvergne 25 - 19 Castres
Saturday 17th April 2010
Albi 38 - 24 Stade Français
Bayonne 33 - 25 Brive
Bourgoin-Jallieu 15 - 13 Toulouse
Montauban 6 - 19 Montpellier
Toulon 33 - 23 Perpignan
Racing Métro 29 - 22 Biarritz
WEEK 24
Friday 2nd April 2010
Toulouse 28 - 23 Racing Métro
Saturday 3rd April 2010
Biarritz 42 - 13 Montauban
Brive 25 - 15 Bourgoin-Jallieu
Montpellier 62 - 17 Albi
Toulon 31 - 13 Bayonne
Stade Français 19 - 10 Clermont Auvergne
Castres 11 - 17 Perpignan
WEEK 23
Friday 26th March 2010
Bourgoin-Jallieu 9 - 13 Toulon
Saturday 27th March
Racing Métro 25 - 18 Brive
Albi 12 - 26 Montauban
Castres 26 - 10 Bayonne
Clermont Auvergne 41 - 3 Montpellier
Perpignan 44 - 23 Stade Français
Biarritz 26 - 10 Toulouse
WEEK 22
Friday 12th March 2010
Albi 7 - 17 Bourgoin-Jallieu
Bayonne 22 - 13 Clermont Auvergne
Brive 26 - 14 Stade Français
Toulon 19 - 6 Castres
Toulouse 34 - 3 Montpellier
Perpignan 19 - 14 Biarritz
Saturday 13th March 2010
Montauban 45 - 31 Racing Métro
WEEK 21
Saturday 27th February 2010
Bourgoin-Jallieu 12 - 6 Bayonne
Friday 5th March 2010
Clermont Auvergne 22 - 17 Perpignan
Saturday 6th March 2010
Bayonne 46 - 13 Albi
Bourgoin-Jallieu 22 - 14 Montauban
Castres 35 - 10 Brive Toulon 21 - 20 Biarritz
Stade Français 0 - 29 Toulouse
Montpellier 22 - 19 Racing Métro
WEEK 20
Friday 19th February 2010
Biarritz 12 - 6 Brive
Saturday 20th February 2010
Racing Métro 24 - 24 Castres
Bourgoin-Jallieu 16 - 22 Stade Français
Clermont Auvergne 45 - 18 Albi
Montauban 16 - 13 Perpignan
Montpellier 16 - 22 Bayonne
Toulouse 3 - 6 Toulon
WEEK 19
Wednesday 27th January 2010
Brive 19 - 14 Montauban
Racing Metro 33 - 24 Clermont Auvergne
Toulon 31 - 19 Montpellier
Castres 32 - 14 Stade Français
Thursday 28th January 2010
Albi 6 - 24 Toulouse
Perpignan 49 - 20 Bourgoin-Jallieu
Bayonne 15 - 0 Biarritz
