Round-up Heineken Cup
The Bridgend coach Dennis John saw his team thrashed 40-6 by Munster at Musgrave Park and predicted that the Irish side would win Pool Four ahead of Castres. "Munster are more physical and they have just that bit more pace," he said.
Bridgend's cause was not helped by having four players sin-binned and the scrum-half Jason Hewlett sent off for stamping as Munster ran in five tries to maintain their perfect record.
Castres stayed two points behind Munster by beating Harlequins 24-18, leaving Quins with a near impossible task to reach the quarter- finals. Their head coach John Kingston was far from downcast, however. "It was a really fantastic performance," he said. "We were more than a match for them and a draw would have been a fair result."
The Swansea captain Scott Gibbs found defeat to Biarritz harder to swallow after the Welsh side had led at half-time. "We thought we were in control," he said.
The 2000 Heineken Cup champions Northampton also lost in France, 50-17 to M ontferrand, and it put them out of the competition. Still without their injured England scrum-half Matt Dawson, they saw Aurélien Rougerie celebrate his elevation to the France squad with two tries.
The Irishman Simon Mason kicked eight penalties out of 10 as Treviso beat their visitors Wasps 32-17.