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It is therefore with the desire to forget this endless hangover that the Oyonnaxiens are considering their last two games of the season. Two meetings that should allow the Aindinois club (12e57 pts) to ensure its future in pro D2 without going through the dams of the dams, even if the penultimate Aurillac (15e48 pts) must go up nine points while there are only ten in play.
“It’s been a few matches where we take more pleasure between us. »»
“We do not want to be set on the laptops and the results of the evening in fifteen days” explains the manager Fabien Cibray. “And then, we want to show that we can compete with the Top 6 teams. A Top 6 that was our goal,” recalls the technician.
In Angoulême, the Oyonnaxiens will thus have for challenge what they have not yet succeeded in this season, namely to win with one of the current and potential qualifiable at the play-off. A motivating and unifying goal for a group that has regained confidence in recent weeks.
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This attests to a wide success against Valence (43-17) and a narrow defeat in the Grenoble leader (26-23). “It’s been a few games where we are in the game plan. We take more pleasure between us. We are more constant, ”analyzes the winger Karim Qadiri.
-“We found cohesion”
Constance that visitors would like to keep as the promise of better days. “We had the roller coaster all the season. As much in our rugby as in terms of result. We found a standard and the dynamics of the last three games are rather positive. As much in the state of mind as in the content ”, savor Fabien Cibray while admitting the somewhat late character of this alchemy.
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A renewal that materializes today by greater fluidity in the Aindinois game. “Automation that has been complicated to find, but it is also true that we had no collective experience,” explains Karim Qadiri.
Stronger on paper, the oyomen had a lot of trouble finding and understanding each other. The bond of the Oyonnaxian “mayonnaise” also finding several hazards which prevented him from being caught. The episodes of the announcement of the end of the season at the end of the season of Joe El Abd or the trial of Rory Grice and Chris Farell (Editor’s note. Respectively sentenced to 12 and 4 years in prison for rape in meeting and non-assistance to person in danger, Grice appealed) weighing may be the mental charge of a group sometimes abused by the results and partly, still bereaved by relegation.
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Released from the weight of qualification, and awakened by the threat of another relegation, the Aindinese workforce therefore seems to have found itself. “We found team cohesion. Thanks to the results and the fact that we were able to align a relatively stable group these last games. This cohesion which was long to find after the departures of certain key players, ”underlines Fabien Cibray.
With the desire to confirm the upturn and perhaps, in the adversity of a group that could be modified, Oyonnax Rugby will therefore want to make its growth curve increase and demonstrate its ability to get up.