I was in the west stand and saw Talanoa intercept it and then it was stripped. The referee signaled to the touch judge to ask if the ball had been ripped out by the tackler and then gave the scrum to FC. That confirmed what I believed I had seen.

Definitely a ball strip from the catalan player on talanoa. Right call.

I thought Talanoa knocked it on in the process of intercepting it personally, lucky to get away with it IMO

Did you not just see my post?

There's a pretty good highlights video that Catalans have done on YouTube. Definitely a one on one steal at the end. Only thing was the ball went backwards from Catalans so it should have been play on when Talanoa picked it up again, but it's the same outcome.

The ball also came out really quickly when shaul "dropped" it near the end so was wondering if that was stripped but was across near the west stand

Yes and I saw it differently to you

Looked to me like the ball was still spinning in his arms and he ended up pelting it off his torso when he accelerated.

Just check youtube - the Catalans post that Mr Z Head mentions above. It is more obvious on there that it is a strip - he caught it before it came out. The ref and touch judge seems to have seen it that way and they were pretty close to the action.

totally agree It was a ball steal by Talanoa who initially dropped it but was then facing his own line so was backwards so as said above should have been play on.