Union Bordeaux-Bègles is one of the teams that will have the chance to finish 2024 at home. It is the Rugby Club Toulonnais that UBB will welcome to Chaban Delmas to end the year, but with which team? If Matthieu Jalibert is absent due to injury (he should however return to training next week), many other French internationals should make their return.
According to Sud Ouest, Yannick Bru should be able to count on Maxime Lucu, Marko Gazzotti and Louis Bielle-Biarrey for this meeting, the three Blues having been able to benefit from a little rest time. Romain Buros, on the other hand, has not yet recovered from his thigh problem, which deprived him of the last match of the French XV tour. To replace him, the Bordeaux staff could decide to field Nans Ducuing, who is finally done with his calf injury.
Buros' injury poorly managed at Marcoussis?
Concerning Romain Buros' injury, it may raise questions because the Bordeaux full-back has been dealing with this problem for more than a month. And Yannick Bru made a comment which seems clearly directed against the staff of the French XV: “the injury was not necessarily well managed”. Why such a remark? Well quite simply because Romain Buros, while he was injured, trained for a few days in Marcoussis, which did not help his injury to heal any faster. And this means that the team must do without one of its best players for another week, even if his return should not take too long.
To summarize
Union Bordeaux-Bègles is one of the teams that will have the chance to finish 2024 at home. It is the Rugby Club Toulonnais that UBB will welcome to Chaban Delmas to end the year and for this match, Yannick Bru will be able to count on several returns. There is the absence of a Blue, however which he regrets, seeming to indicate. poor management during the November tour…