Toulon soundly beat Clermont in an almost one-sided encounter. The Varois perfectly used the term “final phase match” used by Christophe Urios to start the match.
Rugby can boast of having three periods: two during a match and another called “third half”. Clermontois and Toulonnais decided to open another sequence, present in a sporadic manner, by opening hostilities from the press conference. And we promise, this time, the “bad” journalists, that we sometimes are, had nothing to do with it. We don’t do it to these old Top 14 fighters in the media game.
The Auvergnats, energized by their rise in the rankings, announced their intention: to come to Mayol to play a “final phase match” and believe in the top 6. These words, a few decades ago, would have been stuck on the wall of what Christophe Urios, as a mark of respect, calls the “temple of combat”. Mignoni and his people did not go as far as this old method.
Crumbs become a feast
But can such an offensive speech still heat up an opposing group that receives it? “ Yes, completely”, admitted Baubigny with a smile. That of the Auvergnats was seen as an affront. The Var captain even pointed out that he had “haste” to go onto the field to fight it out, recalling that Mayol would be “sold out” for this poster, once a peak of the 2010s.
In an incandescent enclosure, the Varois fought much harder than their opponents to kill Clermont’s dream. And the result speaks for itself. “We didn’t say anything special, lamented Urios. We just said that we were going to play a final phase match. They fed on that. I was surprised, because I missed something. Everyone eats what they want.” Crumbs become a feast.
