Last week “was tough,” admits Dacquois manager Jean-Frédéric Dubois. Before the copious defeat against Béziers, the USD deplored the absences of Jope Naseara and Ratu Nacika, placed in police custody on Thursday November 7 and prosecuted by the Dax prosecutor’s office, separately and respectively for alleged acts of “violence” and ” of sexual assaults” committed while drunk during a “too drunk” evening.
The club, at all levels, has received its two players on several occasions and is sticking to the judicial tempo before making a disciplinary decision. Ratu Nacika will be judged on November 21 by the Dax criminal court, we will have to wait until May 25 for Jope Naseara. In the meantime, “things will be put in place by management, which is very good,” believes the Dacquois manager. I’m going to do something with them too.”
And in a shorter period of time and with the derby in mind, it was necessary to decide on the fate of the two players, present in training this week, and this task fell to the staff, as indicated by the chairman of the board Benjamin Gufflet in an interview with “Sud Ouest”: “The final decision belongs to Jeff (Dubois), as usual. »
Opinion from the field
The head coach, who decided to start winger Jope Naseara and leave Ratu Nacika out of the group, explains: “I think that must be on the mind of “Junior” (Ratu Nacika’s nickname, Editor’s note) . He will be judged next Thursday and the best solution was to wait until this deadline. Jope will pass in May, and waiting until that date seems complicated, especially since his case seems, in quotes, less serious. »
Will he have the head in rugby this Saturday? The staff says they make sure of it: “We talked about it, we sorted things out. I expect a positive reaction from him on the ground, that he shows a better image than the one seen in recent days – he was notably photographed in the newspaper “Sud Ouest” –, that he shows the Jope that the we want to see, that we see every day. »
The return of the young Fijian winger, effective already during the week following the commission of the alleged acts, benefits from the solidarity of his teammates, as captain Jean-Baptiste Barrère explains: “Something happened , excluding rugby. The other players were not there, the staff and management made their decision, we said to ourselves that we would remain united. These guys come from the other side of the world, they have no family, no reference points. We can’t leave them alone. »
