The opener, who was not called up by Fabien Galthié to face Argentina, will return to the field this Saturday evening with his club.
Having asked Fabien Galthié not to be summoned to Marcoussis to prepare for the test between the XV of France and Argentina if he was not guaranteed to be on the match sheet, Matthieu Jalibert, who therefore trained all week in Bordeaux, was started by Yannick Bru for the resumption of the Top 14.
This Saturday evening, on the grounds of the lanterne rouge, Vannes, as part of the 10e day of the championship, the opening half will be associated with Yann Lesgourgues at the hinge. And not to Maxime Lucu. The scrum half, reservist for France-Argentina, was not authorized to play in the Top 14 this Saturday in the name of respecting fairness with the clubs playing Saturday afternoon and not being able to recover their players. Namely the Rochelais Grégory Alldritt, the Clermontois Régis Montagne and the Lyonnais Léo Berdeu.
It's the world turned upside down. We just don't have the right to play players who are employed by us even though the French team has released them. There are clubs which put pressure on the League and the League listened to these clubs. This is completely absurd.
Christophe Laussucq, UBB coach
The UBB, if it recovers its three internationals not retained for this Friday's test against Argentina (Pierre Bochaton, Temo Matiu and Romain Buros), is therefore deprived of Maxime Lucu and the hooker Maxime Lamothe, the two other reserves . A decision by the NRL which angered the defense coach of the Gironde club Christophe Laussucq.
“I find it a bit strong to talk about a lack of fairness knowing that we are still heavily impacted by these duplicates. There was an opportunity to limit this lack of fairness a little and the opposite is happening. And clubs apparently dare to complain… It's the world turned upside down. We just don't have the right to play players who are employed by us even though the French team has released them. There are clubs which put pressure on the League and the League listened to these clubs. This is completely absurd. There are still things at the NRL which prove that it is not a completely independent body which makes its decisions like a big boy.
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