At the heart of a more than positive series with five successes in a row, the Varois, perfectionists, generated a form of frustration at their inability to obtain more bonuses during the last outings.
In high-level sport, humans are made so that when they have a little, they always want a little more. At the RCT Campus, this feeling was latent among most of the actors of the institution struck by thrush. Far from the crisis experienced last year at the same time, the Ollivon gang, energized by a perfect entry into the Champions Cup with two successes, wishes to shift their shared history to a new level.
To hope to join the leading pack, the Rouge et Noir marked with a black mark the imprecise “money-time” against Glasgow, the Stormers or even against Lyon. “We have a great state of mind, we don’t give up, we are all togetherattacks Smaïli. However, it is still far from perfect. In the group this week, we discussed it because the scenarios repeat themselves. We strangely become quite feverish during these moments. We asked ourselves: how can we no longer have regrets and be able to kill these meetings?”
Smaïli: “We no longer used to play to get bonuses”
So what’s wrong? “In terms of our offensive game, we can do a lot better. We can’t follow through with our game plan. On the video, we see a bit of a lack of discipline. For example, support will have to Behind, we get penalized and we lose our momentum We know, our system requires strong discipline for this to work, a bad release, or even a missed outing… We pay. enough cash this sum of small details If we want to go and look for some. bonus, we can’t afford it.”
In the continuation of his reasoning, the center with the shapely head reveals another explanation. “There are scenarios to put in place. In the fairly recent past, in training, we often played the following scenario: “We win by one point, what should we do? We lose by one point, what should we do?” We almost never had this new scenario: “We win by twenty points, what do we do to get the bonus?” In recent years, we no longer have the habit of playing to get bonuses. We have almost never been in this position consistently. The dynamic is different now. We have reached a milestone, but now we must focus on a new problem.”
To find solutions, the 2019 under-20 world champion wants to draw inspiration from the best training in the field such as “Toulouse and Bordeaux-Bègles” : “These are two teams who know how to kill matches. They keep scoring good scores. This weekend, I watched UBB against Ulster. It was a 50-50 match. Then, in ten minutes, They folded the match. We have to go further to become a real great team. (smile).” It seems that appetite comes with eating.
