Rugby Club Nîmois after 12 departures from the club this season has recruited 10 players this summer for the next season. The emphasis is on power.
After a good 2023-2024 season but marked by a premature end in the final phase. The RCN wants to compensate for the lack of aggressiveness and fight that marked last season, where very often the RCN had the match in hand but could not capitalize.
The club, which once again has the ambition of moving up to the National (3rd division) next season, has placed emphasis on recruiting players with powerful physiques.
With 12 players having either ended their careers or left the club, president Steeve Calligaro has had to renew a good part of the squad.
On July 1st, the club made official the arrival of the 9th and 10th recruit with Thomas Coignat, 27-year-old 3rd line, 1m87 for 105 kilos, from Chambéry who signed for two seasons and Tiko Batisbasaga (Fijian), 24-year-old 2nd line, 1.96 m for 133 kilos from Vannes who is on loan for one season.
These arrivals follow those of:
– Zeid Stankovic, 32-year-old right pillar, 1m87, 120 kilos and Bosnian international who signed for two seasons from Stade Métropolitain.
– Corentin Maumont, 26-year-old right pillar, 1m85 for 130 kilos who signed for two seasons from Bassin d’Arcachon.
– Gabriel Austruy, 22-year-old center, 1m91 for 92 kilos trained at RCN, signs for one season from Angoulême.
– Marius Vialle, 32-year-old third row, 1m82 for 100 kilos, trained at RCN, signs for two seasons from Périgueux.
– Tom Di Pasquale, 20-year-old scrum-half returning to RCN after a season with the MHR espoir team.
– Mathis Arnaud, 26-year-old left pillar, signs for 3 seasons at RCN from Aubenas.
– Lucas Larré-Larrouy, 25-year-old hooker, signs for 3 seasons at RCN from Auch.
– Samuel Roche, 27-year-old full-back from Hyères-Carqueiranne, is back at RCN after a season in which he suffered a cruciate ligament injury.
Will these arrivals, attractive on paper, be enough to get the group going and take this team to the National next season?
This is what we will see at the start of the season with the first preparation matches:
– Friday August 2 – against Carcassonne – Stade Albert Domec, in Carcassonne,
– Friday August 9 – against Hyères – Stade Kaufmann – in the evening (probably 7:30 p.m.)
– Saturday August 17 – against Montpellier M23 (Espoirs) – Stade Kaufmann – (curtain raiser for the preparation match Nice – Valence-Romans in Pro D2 which will be played at Kaufmann)
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