1. The image: and the melee of Biarritz flew!
Friday October 25, eighth day of the championship. The SA XV leads 30-22 against Biarritz but still has to hold at 13 against 15 after the yellow cards by Gautier Gibouin and Hubert Texier.
77e minute. Mixed in the camp of the biarrots. Introduction of the Basque scrum half Biscay. The rest went around the canvas with a particular thought for the left pillar of BO Alexandre Plantier, author of a very involuntary rear salto and fortunately without consequences.
Comments by Tanguy Kerdrain, coach of the forwards of the XV: “This last scrum with the boiling stadium, I have never experienced this in Chanzy. It is beautiful ”.
The strong image of the season relayed thousands of times on the internet, and in particular praised by the former English international Andy Goode of an “Oh My Scrum! »»
2. The number: 11e home team
Before the first of the season in Chanzy against Brive, the SA XV had more than solidified the ramparts of his fortress, remaining on ten matches without consecutive defeat. But despite a superb comeback, the Charentais failed three points from the Corréziens (25-28).
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A defeat against a Patraque Mont-de-Marsan (19-32) and a draw against Provence (6-6) later, the SA XV had still not won at home the approach of All Saints’ Day while being undefeated outside! The counter finally opened against Biarritz (33-22).
But the faux-pas is never far away, like facing Béziers (13-32) in January or against Montauban (18-19) three weeks ago. best team outside with 31 points and seven victories for a draw and six defeats, the SA XV won only two additional matches in its lair. With 44 points taken in Chanzy, he is the least efficient from the first seven in the home championship.
3. The player: Alexander the Great
Unless there is an unlikely home dam, Alexander Masibaka will play his last match in Chanzy to Oyonnax, which he splashed with his talent in a season and a half.
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Arrived on tiptoe in the summer of 2023 on loan from Montpellier where he will return next season, the number 8 Australian and neo-international Scottish has developed incredible superpowers. Speed, power, explosiveness, and an ability to make the stage of pleasure roar.
“Chanzy’s audience is wonderful. It is the most beautiful atmosphere in which I played. I will be sad to leave, ”he greeted a few weeks ago.
-The best way to thank Chanzy for the reception: beat on Friday the test record of SA XV in Pro D2, 17, which he shares with Pierre Lafitte. Before the tribute to him after the meeting.
4. The sentence: “It is the greatest of pride to make people happy”
Interview on Wednesday on the Cle Sport set by the director of SA XV Antoine Roger, confirming that SA XV will play closed windows against Oyonnax. 8000 places, prefectural gauge, storm. And necessarily a few hundred disappointed.
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Popular success, + 33 % crowds this season for an average of 6,143 spectators per game, which makes it more than ever necessary to enlarge the renovated stadium in 2018. And, above all, to make it more comfortable for the public and the partners that are jostling.
A new in-goal platform should see the light of day in the coming months, before the extension of the Grande Tribune in the summer of 2026. In the meantime, Chanzy will still have a pressure cooker on Friday.
5. The stat: 58 % of the tests registered in Chanzy
Apart from a diet evening in October against Provence (6-6), Chanzy was rather spoiled this season. The SA XV scored 51 of its 88 trials in front of its audience, offering them by packs of five – at least – six times.
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He chained three victories with six essays against Dax (46-23), Colomiers (41-37) and Aurillac (40-20) in the heart of winter, before knowing the widest victory in his story against Nice (45-14), last month, with seven attempts.
A much more worn season on the attack like the five offensive bonuses dropped, record of the 2018-2019 season equaled.
6. The anecdote: the peaceful pre-match of Alexandre Ruiz
Do not look for Alexandre Ruiz and his faithful cap in the minutes that will follow the arrival of the players in Chanzy this Friday evening. Until heating, about half an hour before kick-off, the manager used to isolate himself in his office.
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“Part of the staff takes off very early, I don’t like to go out too much. I like to keep myself for a while, ”he said at a press conference this Thursday. “I take the time to call my two children, I sometimes watch a series. I want to think of something else, get my head out of rugby to be cold afterwards. »»
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