the essential
Less than a week before the resumption of Pro D2 in Grenoble (Thursday January 9 at 9 p.m.), “La Dépêche” draws up a quantitative assessment of the first part of the season at US Montauban. Attack, scorers, playing time, discipline, televised matches: the figures to remember.
43 players
In 15 championship matches the USM used 43 players. Attacker Simon Renda (15 matches) was the most used by Jérôme Bosviel, Stéphane Ahmed, Thomas Fortunel, Sikumbuzo Notshe and Baptiste Mouchous (12), Tyrone Viiga, Victor Moreaux and Fred Quercy (11), together with: Uanivi, Greyling, Firmin, Burduli, Zabalza (10), Vanaï, Powell, Espeut, Bué, Jackson, Ringuet, Vici (9), Reilhac, Bean, Wilkins, Kanika, Bradshaw (8), Pomponio, Aouf, Azariashvili, Bitz, Seyrolle, Maurouard (7), Cottin (6), Vallée, Larregain, Fonnicola (5), Vaotoa, Castel, Tuimauga (4), Alkhazashvili, Coularis (3), Galala, Gimeno (2).
Play time
Simon Renda (941 minutes) comes first ahead of Baptiste Mouchous (908) and Stéphane Ahmed (895). Also exceeding 600 minutes of playing time in matches: Notshe (754), Uanivi (715), Jackson (690), Ringuet (681), Vici (672) and Bosviel (627).
391 points
In 15 matches, USM scored 391 points by the following players: Bosviel (84), Fortunel (65), Mouchous (27), Ahmed and Vici (25), Firmin and Renda (20), Quercy and Notshe (15 ), penalty try (14), Vallée, Reilhac, Jackson and Powell (10), Larregain (6), Zabalza, Kanika, Bué, Espeut, Ringuet, Tuimauga and Moreaux (5).
42 trials
Stéphane Ahmed and Josua Vici (5) are the best try scorers at mid-season ahead of Kévin Firmin and Simon Renda (4), Quercy and Notshe (3), Vallée, Reilhac, Jackson, Powell and penalty try (2 ), Zabalza, Kanika, Bué, Espeut, Ringuet, Mouchous, Tuimauga, Moreaux (1).
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30 penalties
Scorer Jérôme Bosviel (15) is in the lead ahead of Fortunel (10), Mouchous (4) and Larregain (1).
33 transformations
They were converted by Jérôme Bosviel (16), Fortunel (12), Mouchous (5).
0 red cards
Bravo to the discipline of the players managed by Sébastien Tillous-Borde.
16 yellow cards
The USM contains 16 yellow cartoons: Vici, Viiga and Moreaux (2), Cottin, Notshe, Pomponio, Bradshaw, Vaotoa, Bean, Azariashvili, Quercy, Gimeno and Seyrolle (1).
4 bonus
In 15 matches, USM obtained 4 bonus points like Biarritz, Valence-Romans and Oyonnax. Do less well: Nevers, Colomiers, Soyaux-Angoulême and Dax (3), Aurillac (2). The other teams do better, Béziers (9), Agen, Provence Rugby and Grenoble (7), Brive and Mont-de-Marsan (6), Nice (5).
+8 to the British average
At the British average, USM is mid-championship at +8. This is better than Dax (+7), Colomiers (+5), Agen (+3), Mont-de-Marsan (+2), Oyonnax (0), Aurillac (-2), Valence-Romans (-4), Nevers (-5) and Nice (-15). It is worse than Grenoble (+ 23), Brive (+ 14), Béziers (+ 13), Soyaux-Angoulême (+ 11), Provence Rugby (+ 9). At the same level as Biarritz (+ 8 with 5 financial penalty points).
Match days
This mid-season, Montauban will have played 11 times on Friday and 4 times on Thursday.
Television
Montauban was entitled to six televised matches on Canal + sport and nine on Canal + Live.
Centenarians
Several players have passed the milestone of one hundred championship matches in “green and black”. They are Dimitri Vaotoa (264), Jérôme Bosviel (206), Maxime Mathy (183) and Thomas Fortunel (108).
Championship testing in “green and black”
In the current squad Jérôme Bosviel (27) is in the lead ahead of Maxime Mathy (21), Dimitri Vaotoa and Stéphane Ahmed (16), Josua Vici (15). All the others are below fifteen.
206
This is the number of players used in the championship since the return of USM to Pro D2 in 2014. Dimitri Vaotoa (222) was used the most, ahead of Jérôme Bosviel (206), Maxime Mathy (183), Nicolas Agnesi and Stéphane Munoz (179), Jérémy Chaput (178), Amédée Domenech and Taleta Tupuola (131), Pierrick Esclauze (128), Elvis Tekassala (117), Serge Sergueev (114) and Thomas Fortunel (108). The others are below a hundred matches.
