Expected at the Durban Sharks next weekend in the Champions Cup, Ugo Mola and his men will take the plane this Saturday, in the wake of their match at Marcel-Deflandre against the Rochelais.
You won't have to hang around in the showers. Expected this Saturday evening (9:05 p.m.) on the La Rochelle lawn during the 14th day of Top 14, Stade Toulousain will quickly leave Charente-Maritime in the wake of the match to take the plane back to… South Africa. South on a private flight. As explained by Rugby Rama the reigning French champions, who are due to challenge the Durban Sharks next Saturday in the Champions Cup (3rd day), will fly to Cape Town for a twelve-hour journey and the timing promises to be tight. In fact, La Rochelle airport has required Toulouse residents to leave the premises by air before midnight.
The post-match conference snubbed?
As a result, if the game were to drag on, the post-match conference would be abandoned even though the red and black management had asked the National Rugby League to play on Saturday afternoon rather than in the evening. A request rejected. Toulouse, which has planned six days in the rainbow nation to prepare for its “European” meeting, will field a young (22.4 years average age) and revamped team against La Rochelle. The executives Antoine Dupont, Romain Ntamack and Thomas Ramos were particularly spared, before boarding the private plane.
