Two big names for a rugby mash. So of course we exaggerate, extrapolate, caricature, but all the same.
Since the start of the season, two of the three big favorites for promotion to the Top 14 have displayed a level of play that has little correlation to their squad and their ambitions. If the results are not catastrophic (2 home victories each), it is rather the content which poses a problem.
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In Aix in particular, we have not yet found the smooth play that was the strength of the men of 13 last year. And despite colossal recruitment (Hanigan, Rodda, Plisson, etc.), the machine is having difficulty getting started.
This is evidenced by the latest rout in Béziers last weekend (39 to 20), on the pitch of a candidate with the same ambitions as the Provencal club, which came to confirm the Blacks’ sluggish start to the season.
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Beaten in conquest and in combat, unable to score in numerical superiority, Inga Finau’s teammates took to the water, on the banks of the Mediterranean.
So, Friday evening, which big name will finish this first block in the 2nd part of the ranking? Difficult to say, at the time of writing these lines, as the improved victory of Oyonnax against Nice (52 to 3) is in no way a guarantee of truth since the promoted had not made this trip a priority.
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What is certain, however, is that rugby being by nature a sport in which we come together in adversity, the battle should be engaged, at Maurice-David. Between two teams that are shaky at the moment, but which could well find some color in the event of victory in Friday evening’s clash.
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