the essential
Trailing 26-14 in the second half, the Columérins were able to turn the situation around, including a double in fifteen minutes from hooker Pablo Dimcheff.
Colomiers rugby brought down the Montalban leader and resumed the march forward, at home in front of a large audience. This match gave them almost everything you could expect from a rugby match, with strategy, limited play, a touch of combat and a hell of a twist at the end of the match. And in this last act, the hooker Pablo Dimcheff was a central character.
“He has such high potential that he alone is capable of winning a match,” said forwards coach Fabien Berneau a month ago, after a difficult game against Valence-Romans but in reference to a another match, won this one, at Mont-de-Marsan.
In the same way as in the Landes, the replacement hooker turned the game around by playing a perfect shot. And that only he had seen. “We knew they were going to try to turn the mauls on us. Maybe I arrived a little late to look for the ball. But when I see that Marco (Fepulea'i) is alone with the ball, I take it, not seeing anyone in front, he says. It was the moment to leave. At worst, someone tackled me and we gained a few meters.
“We are young, crazy, dynamic…”
This initiative, like the many others launched by Ugo Pacome, would end up dynamiting this meeting. And undoubtedly revive the Argentinian: “Every week, we repeat that the work of the substitutes is essential for the team. It is up to us to finish the job. I put it in my head before the match that I was going to score . But I wouldn’t have thought of scoring a double!”
“Honestly, the game dictated at that moment to go to them, lock them down and recover the ball. But it's a fairly dense team, quite heavy. I said to myself: 'We are young, crazy, dynamic. If we are going to play on our canes, as we have done several times, it will overflow again”, reveals Ugo Pacome. It was perhaps not enough to score, but we always advanced 20, 30 meters. I think it was the right thing to do and we did it well together.” An energy and character appreciated by the staff: “The main thing is above all the state of mind and the investment of the players,” said forwards coach Fabien Berneau. A good omen for the future.
