the strong words of Wardi on his bloodshed against Toulouse and Marchand!

His gesture undoubtedly put an end to La Rochelle’s last hopes. After an up-and-down season, La Rochelle ended the season with a cannonball to succeed in qualifying for the semi-finals of the Top 14. Opposed to their bête noire Stade Toulousain, the Maritimes were in the lead for a long time before breaking down after returning from the locker room. A first exclusion from Uini Atonio had already complicated their task, but Reda Wardi’s second red card a few minutes later finished them off. After a scrum close to the Toulouse lines won by the Rouge et Noir, the international pillar broke down in the face of Julien Marchand’s attack. He gave him a slight headbutt which earned him a logical exclusion. In the columns of South West, the international pillar returned with bitterness to this moment: “The club supported me a lot, whether it was Ronan (O’Gara, Editor’s note), the president, etc. They didn’t burden me when they very well could have. I thank them for that. But it hurt me a lot, because there is no excuse. Especially for a player of my level. This must not happen. »

Wardi doesn’t hold a grudge against Marchand

Frustrated by the scenario of the meeting, Reda Wardi completely broke down: “The match is still slipping through our fingers… Uini takes his card and while we dominate in the scrum, we get penalized. You add the context, the chambering and there, in my head, it’s “banzai”, the explosion… I don’t know what happened. 999 times out of 1,000 I don’t do it. “. However, the pillar does not hold any grudge against his teammate in the selection, Julien Marchand, at the origin of his slip-up: “Besides, Julien is my friend. We tried to see each other at the end, but I wasn’t okay. And we called each other directly afterwards. From the outside, you might think it’s crazy, but he’s my friend. It was more like ‘are you serious? Stop!’ » A beautiful maturity when looking back on this painful moment.

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