Seriously injured just before the 2023 World Cup, Nacho Calles returned at the end of last season. At the Section, he competes for the position of left pillar with Lekso Kaulashvili, Daniel Bibi-Biziwu, Hugo Parrou and Rémi Seneca. If the first two are committed until 2027 and the third recently extended for a season, the last is also at the end of his contract this summer.
The editorial team advises you
The editorial team advises you
Whitelock, première
If it will therefore lose one of its pillars in June, the Section will recover one of its major players on Saturday, during the reception of the Ospreys at the Hameau on the occasion of the 4th and last day of the Challenge Cup group stage (2 p.m. ).
While he had missed three of the last four days of Top 14 last season, injured in the Achilles tendon then in the neck, Luke Whitelock had to play billiards in the summer, precisely for a problem with the Achilles tendon . Since then, the 33-year-old third row, best Pau player for the 2023-2024 financial year, has been absent. In recent weeks, he had returned to contact with the team, dressed on the sidelines, playing the luxury water carrier. From now on, he will return to the field and should even start the match.
If the Béarnais are certain of progressing to the round of 16 of the European Cup after their success at the Dragons yesterday, Sunday (15-24), they must finish the job against other Welsh, those of the Ospreys, in order to obtain the best possible ranking and thus an 8th, or even a quarter-final at home. Proof of the seriousness with which Pau approaches this meeting, Émilien Gailleton and Lekima Tagitagivalu could strengthen the Pau group on Saturday.
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