the essential
The young second row (23 years old) will be one of the most experienced players in the pack, Saturday January 4 at Marcel-Deflandre (9:05 p.m., 14th day of Top 14), where he exploded just a year ago.
The Brennans love fighting. In line with Trevor, his dad, Joshua does not deviate from tradition. You only have to look at his recent medical assessment to convince yourself that he is not afraid of putting his head in the heart of the reactor: an orbital floor in Bayonne at the beginning of November as well as an arcade opened on last month in Exeter and immediately reopened in Lyon.
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Because the second or third “red and black” line, which wore a headband to protect it last weekend against Stade Français and still bore the scars of its investment on Thursday January 2, is not the type to leave its share to others.
A “valiantas” as we like them and as needed in all packs. This Saturday, January 4, in La Rochelle (14th day of Top 14, 9:05 p.m.), at the age of 23, he will be one of the guides of the young stadium players called to replace the attendants at the Champions Cup, at Durban face the Sharks on Saturday 11.
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A maritime lawn on which everything settled for him barely a year ago, on December 30, 2023. “This La Rochelle match brought him a lot of solutions since it was from there that he started to really explode with us, whether in 7 or 4 for that matter”, says Jean Bouilhou, coach of the forwards.
Awareness
After this move to the “revealing” La Rochelle, the former under-20 international then played 20 matches out of 22 possible, including the two won finals. A change of direction materialized by a first call-up in the group of 42 Blues in the fall which the person concerned timidly admits – “I have not necessarily changed dimension but of course, there is progress” – but which confirms the forwards coach: “You see him on the pitch, he wins his duels a lot more, he puts a lot of intensity into his actions, whether offensive or defensive.”
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The result of an awareness of the demands of the high level if we are to believe the former third row: “I think he has changed the way he trains a little. I think he is a player who had great basic athletic qualities, and like any talented player, he was content with his qualities until a certain age. He understood that he had to work more to reach the milestone, which he did. last year.”
“It’s what happens on the ground that counts”
Preferring actions to words, and even if he will be one of the most experienced at Deflandre, Brennan will not force his nature this Saturday for the start of the return phase. “For me, the role doesn’t change. I have my tasks to do and so do the others,” he says. A leader by example in short: “There are the guys who are there to talk. We have a staff who are there to talk. Afterwards, it's what happens on the field that counts, not the words that 'we say to each other before.' That says a lot about his motivation…
