It's no secret: Pierre Mignoni is no longer suspended.
If the LNR's decision was made public on November 7, the Toulon coach had, until now, not commented on this decision.
“I had accepted the sanction, I accept the… gracesays the main person concerned with a smile. This period was complicated. It was difficult for me not to be with my players at halftime, not to participate in everything related to the match itself. But that’s in the past.”
So, now that he has all his coaching rights again, will Pierre Mignoni be in his rectangle against Bayonne? “It's even!”
But still? “I will perhaps gain height in the first period and go down in the second, a bit like I did before [notamment à Lyon, ou lorsqu’il était en binôme avec Franck Azéma à Toulon, Ndlr].“
As a reminder, Pierre Mignoni was suspended for six matches after his reaction deemed excessive by the LNR disciplinary committee in the very last minutes of the Clermont-Toulon match.
His requalification was only to take place the day after the perilous trip to South Africa, against the Stormers. Bernard Lemaitre announced it in our columns, the club was going to appeal.
Due “a procedural irregularity”the sanction was canceled. And according to our information, this irregularity appears in the match report.
The latter was not written directly by the referee, Adrien Marbot, but by the fifth referee. Enough to render the procedure obsolete.
Away from the field, did Pierre Mignoni learn during these three matches away from his family? “I remember that a direct reaction is never positive, even if I have not done anything wrong in an ethical sense. I have not said inappropriate or aggressive words directly towards anyone. On the form , it was not acceptable. Basically, I have reasons to be angry, but that doesn't excuse anything.
