Author of a double at the end of the match which ensured the offensive bonus for his team, Isère fullback Julien Farnoux preferred to remember the character displayed by his team rather than their current ranking.
How do you analyze your success against Agen, during which your team showed two very distinct faces before making the difference in the money-time?
The match is successful on an accounting levelwe had a good first half and we actually had 25 minutes with a big drop in speed after the locker room. It's probably linked to the score which was already important for us, but we have to be able to press the accelerator to kill the matches earlier, because in the end we scared ourselves a little… Being co- leader? For me, it's anecdotal. We'll see at the end of the block. What is positive this evening is still the contribution of our bench which allowed us to get this bonus. We often say that we have a group of 40-50 players and when we come back we have to show that little extra soul. Even if we can also be criticized for the fact that, when we returned, we also took time to give the team momentum.
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Your bonus try is highly improbable, the result of a ball recovered in front of our goal, a long clearance and a favorable rebound… What did you say to yourself at the start of the action?
I was surprised, I admit. I saw that the kicked ball cleared by Marc Palmier was spinning, and that it could have a capricious bounce… Wilfried Hulleu followed well and recovered it. But I knew he hurt his ankle in the first half, it was possible he wouldn't make it to the end. So, I said to myself “run!” and I don't think too much. It smiled on me, at the other end of the field… It would have been good for “Will” to score, for his stats; but hey, for once it happens to me, it's nice to eat too!
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However, in terms of content, this offensive bonus obtained “by snatching” should surely not satisfy you as the team sometimes lacked control and made bad choices…
Pro D2 is difficult and there are few teams that unfold the plan as planned. No matter the way, I think it's good to fight until the end. On this bonus try, for example, we could very well have stopped running, thinking that the ball was going to come out. But that’s not the face we want to put on our team. Today, it smiles on us. In this championship, you have to be prepared for the unexpected!
