Listen again if I dared from this Monday where it is about the Section Paloise, its heavy defeat in Montpellier and its “Placoplâtre” melee
And this morning we dare to give a little history lesson of the Paloise Section for those who wear the first team jersey, as well as their coaches and managers. Because in this column we are not going to pretend to teach them rugby. They are the actors. They know the game. They have all the data on their computers. They analyze. They are experts. Not us. But perhaps they are missing this basic notion.
We would just like to explain the origin of the Section's rallying cry. Honha! It’s Béarnais. It means forcing by insisting. Honha means never give up. Never let it happen. Never give up. It is the expression of collective strength. We say honha before each scrum. Because scrum is the embodiment of that mindset. And basically, listening to the match on the radio on Saturday. That was the most painful thing. In almost every melee the Section was carried away. It was a lost ball. Penalty. Yellow card. We were even no longer happy about a move ahead of Montpellier.
The inventors of this Ounha cry were a few subscribers to the Auchan tribune. The one opposite in the early 2000s. Some even created an association whose motto was: if rugby no longer begins, where will it end?
So in this column we would like to say that this is precisely what is worrying. This Placoplâtre melee as they say. It does not bode well for the future. A weak melee at this point means that there was neither the strength nor the desire to be strong. Robust as Sébastien Piqueronies says. We dare to say it this morning. There is no need for data and a microcomputer to understand it.
