Amateurs-Fusion acted between poppies and RTC: a new era for rugby in Chalon-sur-Saône

The newlyweds said yes! The noise of rapprochement between Chalonnais female rugby Les Coquelicots and the Tango Rugby Chalonnais confirmed in the second part of April. After the poppies, on Friday April 18, a very large majority, the RTC adopted, unanimously, Friday, April 25, the contract of agreement between the two clubs to reach a merger during an extraordinary general meeting (AGE). Created in 1971, in Tournus, before emigrating to Chalon-sur-Saône in 2004, Les Coquelicots, a club only devoted to the practice of female rugby, and RTC will therefore only be next season. If the existence of two distinct structures could be understood a few decades ago, the rise of female rugby in recent seasons seemed to make this rapprocherable. Especially since the poppies did not have a rugby school, when the RTC had many players in his. At the end of the 2010s, attempts to understand had been attempted, especially in the less than 18 -year -old category, but they had not given a long time. The arrival at the RTC last season of Walter Alix, former president of Chagny last season, accelerated the process. In the process, after a vacancy of power, he agreed to take the presidency of the female club, without hiding his intention to work for a merger between the two clubs.

The girls arrive!

On May 20, a new age will be organized to act the arrival of women. “We will confirm the merger, with the contribution contracts validated by the two structures and modify the statutes”specifies Bernard Lecuelle, the president of the RCT who will share his chair with Walter Alix from this date. It will then remain to wait for validation by the FFR, then proceed with the players to the RTC-les Coquelicots. “It’s a beautiful project, continues the manager. This will simplify daily management, including the distribution of land. We are going to create a third job. But the locker room will not be bigger. “