Large winner of La Rochelle (45-26), Toulon got closer to Toulouse and Bordeaux-Bègles in the classification. Faced with the press, the Var manager preferred to calm the ardor around his club.
How do you analyze this successful success against La Rochelle?
We saw the worst first period of the year. La Rochelle played with great energy. We were apathetic in all areas except for the fray, and again. We were apathetic. We can't say more. At halftime, we know that we couldn't do worse. You no longer had to kiss our heads. We shouldn't let go. In this block, we took points everywhere and in all meetings. On break, we just thought that we had to show our true face. You just had to do the best second period of the year. Overall, over the second period, we were there. You know, we arrive at the end of the block. It is not an excuse, but it is difficult. It doesn't excuse anything, but we really need to rest, especially since we have traveled a lot. I feel my group which has been tired for 15 days. I knew it was going to be hard.
This match strangely looked like the dam last June …
Since the start of this season, I had told players that we wanted to show our progress. La Rochelle was going to come with ambition. They have absent, we also have them. For me, we had to show progress. The scenario is identical to the dam. You have seen it. We take tests … (he blows) we make passes to the opponents. We shouldn't sink. This time, we did not look down. No one has let go.
How do you judge this block? You have taken points everywhere except for dirty …
We have made the best start for a long time, at least since I have been there. But as I already told you, we don't have a margin. We have no margin. What does that mean? The Top 14 is hard just like the European Cup, there are hard matches. We need to progress again. We must keep this solidarity. We don't let go, the public did not drop. I liked it. They encouraged us. People could have died. This was not the case.
You come back to three points from the top 2.. Is that important to you?
-The classification is important. We look at him, but we especially want to keep the course on what we want to do. The progress that we must make. The classification will be the consequence of that. I do not have the ambition to say that we want to be in the first or second place. We have to be in the top 6. We are silent we work. There will be difficult matches. We're going to rest a little. There will be a few days of rest.
How much ?
They will have ten days of rest.
You said your team has no margin. Can you develop?
It is not at the level of the accountant. If we get out of our line, we have no margin. We showed it in the first period. That's all we shouldn't do. We have to be aligned with what we want to do. I know it's not easy. We ask a lot. It is not simple on the sequence. To come back to your question: you want to be 20 points behind or in advance in the ranking, the top 14 does not leave a margin.
