This Sunday, the two best teams of the start of the 2024/2025 season meet to close the fourth day. Toulouse, the undefeated leader of the Top 14, hosts Bordeaux, its runner-up. And we can only salivate as this match approaches.
Last week, the Bordeaux team really enjoyed themselves offensively against Racing 92. The wingers Penaud and Bielle-Biarrey each scored a hat-trick. A sign that the Girondins machine is already well-oiled.
Opposite, Stade Toulousain does not seem to be running at full capacity yet. Despite some very good things seen in Vannes and then against La Rochelle. But we know very well what this team is capable of. Which knows perfectly how to manage the schedule and ramp up.
This clash on Sunday evening will nevertheless be a first big test for both groups. And all the supporters hope to see a great show and especially some tries. In the ranks of the red and black, one player is particularly impatient at the idea of crossing the chalk line, Rodrigue Neti.
The Stade Toulousain pillar does not intend to imitate the Bordeaux or the Rochelais Leyds by scoring a hat-trick. A single achievement would make him happy. The Tricolor with two selections in the French team has in fact never scored in the Top 14 since his debut with the pros.
“In 2021 I scored a double. But both were disallowed“, Neti recalls on the airwaves of 100% Radio. A recurring situation for this player who has already been rewarded for his efforts in the Champions Cup with a try against Harlequins in 2023. But never in the championship.
Will this season be the right one?I hope so anyway“. Despite this long wait. He doesn’t fixate on it.”If the team wins and I score, why not. But if I can hold my own in the scrum and be good in defence, that’s fine with me.“
To score tries, he “leave it at 3/4“. Even though everyone knows that without the enormous work of the forwards to put the team forward, and to do the work in the rucks to have good balls, the backs would have a lot more difficulty entering the Promised Land.
