the essential
The “red and black” manager confided, after the defeat in the derby in Castres (23-28) this Saturday October 5 on the occasion of the 5th day of Top 14, that his group would “lower their heads and not too much reason”.
It’s hard to win a match when you take so many penalties in scrums…
Particularly against Castres who knew how to make the effort in this sector even though it didn’t seem to me, in the first half, that we were in that much danger. In any case a scrum obviously too feverish to win away. Despite that, we have the possibility of coming back with perhaps a little more. But throughout the second half, and the 20 minutes that we spent from the 45th-50th to the 70th, we were penalized too much, we simply didn’t have the ball, and we couldn’t manage don’t put your hands on it again. Congratulations once again to Castres and I think we are simply in our place. Everyone talks to us about what we have been, but the important thing is what we are going to become. And for the moment, what we have been does not nourish us enough to become a team that plays leading roles in the championship.
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We have the impression that you are losing track a little after this sequence at the start of the second half, where you are not far from scoring…
There may be the possibility of taking the points. Everyone tells us we’re pretentious but we’re not pretentious. Thomas Ramos, we show him the posts, he doesn’t want to take them. We go into touch, we are not far from scoring, there is a penalty. Afterwards, I think we can take the points to be a little over 12 points. These are the facts of the game but it is true that today, our choices which were absolutely relevant last season are not very relevant this season. We will lower our heads, we will not reason too much. We lost a match against a team which is still difficult to maneuver at home, and particularly for Stade Toulousain. The proof is still there today. I think there are moments where we are brilliant, like in the first half, because frankly, we played the perfect game away. And then sometimes, we pedal a little next to the bike.
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Isn’t your end of the match where you get the bonus satisfying?
Playing 10 minutes away at the end of the match is not enough, especially five minutes at 14. It is not enough to win against Castres, who are a compact team, driven by the ambient enthusiasm . The teams that win here are either because Castres fell asleep on the pumps, or they put in an XXL performance. Castres did not sleep on the pumps and we did not achieve an XXL performance. You have the scenario.
