By choosing to field Irae Simone as fly-half for the first time in his career, Christophe Urios took a daring gamble. A bet that can be described as a failure. But the boss of the Jaunards assures him: we will see the Australian again at the opening.
In football, there is Luis Enrique. An unpredictable manager capable of playing without a center forward or repositioning an attacker at full-back. A coach that followers of this sport do not always manage to follow. In rugby, we now have Christophe Urios. The manager of ASM Clermont-Auvergne found nothing better, to challenge at the Aviva Stadium what is best in Europe with Stade Toulouse, to launch Irae Simone, always a three-quarter center, at fly-half position. And don’t think that an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease had struck the Auvergne openers, there were two of them on the substitutes’ bench.
Still, the Australian’s start to the match probably gave the ASM Boss a few cold sweats. “You are right to say that he was borrowed”he confessed with a smile. And for good reason. Between rough footwork and ball catches marked by uncertainty, Irae Simone did not seem to be at ease, sometimes making his team unable to read his intentions. Despite himself, he was still behind his team’s only try. His blocked low-footed play ended miraculously in the hands of Pierre Fouyssac. Two minutes of play later, winger Raka opened the scoring (5th).
However, we came to the conclusion that George Moala’s serious injury was a boon for ASM. Victim of a nasty, completely involuntary elbow from New Zealand international fullback Jordie Barrett, the former All Black was forced to leave his partners in the 17the minute of play. “The return of Benji (Urdapilleta) did us goodconfessed Urios. He brought us quality in his kicking game and in his role as leader. And then finding Irae in the middle of the field, it allowed us to better structure our game.” With the result that we know. Certainly, ASM did not bring down Leinster. Certainly, she returned with a zero score on the accounting level. But, she showed that we should count on her.
So why did you try such a gamble? “It’s not a betretort Urios. I tend to think he will be better at opening than in the middle. Only, it wasn’t the fact of being positioned at the opening for the first time that bothered him, it was just that it was his return match. » Simone had only played nine minutes at the end of the match a week earlier against Treviso even though he had been absent since October 12 and the match against Stade Toulouse. And Christophe Urios, as a man of conviction, does not budge. He repeated it at a press conference: “We will see Simone again at fly-half. »
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