Wilkinson's Toulon win

Trailing 9-0 after just 11 minutes Toulon went on to dominate the encounter, particularly in the scrum.

On 35 minutes Toulon got one of their two tries with Wilkinson feeding the ball to Wales centre Jamie Robinson who took on the Clermont defence before finding To'omaga Sinoti for the touch down.

Wilkinson converted to put Toulon into the lead for the first time only for Clermont to regain the initiative two minutes later when Seremaia Bai struck a penalty to give the visitors a 12-10 lead.

Bai added two more quick penalties to stretch Clermont's lead after the break but Toulon then raised their game, producing their second try on 50 minutes with Clement Marienval getting the valuable points.

Wilkinson, who got the conversion, was replaced by Sebastien Fauque and the move paid off with the England 2003 World Cup hero's replacement coming up with three penalties of his own to bag the win for Toulon.

Toulouse kept up their decent start to the new campaign with a 21-17 home win over Bayonne which put them top, but only on better points difference from Toulon.

Bayonne though proved tough to crack as they were leading for over an hour before Frederik Michalak and Shaun Sowerby made their night a winning one.

Up in Paris Stade Francais were subjected to a first loss of the season when they went down 35-40 to bottom club Montauban , who were forced to call off last weekend's game against Castres due to a swine flu scare.

Their surprise win was due in no small part to the metronomic kicking of Cedric Rosalen who was responsible for seven penalties and two conversions.

Stade Francais boast the league's worst defence with 126 points leaked in four games.

Reigning champions Perpignan easily saw off Brive 21-9.

Cash-strapped Bourgoin, who have been rescued from financial oblivion by a new deal involving player wage cuts and fresh investment, celebrated with a 17-13 success over Racing Metro.

Montpellier gained their second win of the fledgling campaign, a 22-18 victory over Biarritz.

The game between Albi and Castres was postponed due to swine flu with seven of the Castres players laid low with the virus.