2024-02-24 21:05:20
The period of duplicates is still long. After suffering the heaviest defeat of the season at Castres (41-12), are you worried?
No, I’m not worried, I’m lucid. We are in difficulty, that’s clear. I don’t blame the players for their lack of investment or their disinterest in the jersey because that’s not the case. The team sent…
The period of duplicates is still long. After suffering the heaviest defeat of the season at Castres (41-12), are you worried?
No, I’m not worried, I’m lucid. We are in difficulty, that’s clear. I don’t blame the players for their lack of investment or their disinterest in the jersey because that’s not the case. The team got going in the first half hour. The problem is that we have so much waste and technical errors that the game confines us to our 30 meters. There are a multitude of forwards, missed tackles, direct passes into touch, bad kicking games… There are a lot of mistakes which mean that we never manage to get possession, to move on and to gain confidence in our rugby. Behind, the tests are piling up. This is an unfortunate scenario. Castres was better than us. After 40 minutes, we also collapsed in power.
This lack of inspiration on the offensive level highlights the absence of the bosses…
Our young game management players are learning. The problem with the Top 14 is that you have to learn quickly. Without our best elements, faced with the quality of this Castres team, we cannot compete.
“Apart from having an Air France Platinum card, Nicolas Depoortere makes a lot of round trips which adds to his fatigue.â€
Do you find your group psychologically scarred?
No, it is normally physically marked. The problem is that we have no possible rotation on our three-quarter line. We are asking the same players. Apart from having an Air France Platinium card, Nicolas Depoortere makes a lot of round trips which adds to his fatigue. All this is felt at a moment in the standoff when confidence fades. The last ten minutes against Castres were long. I have said enough that we will experience difficult times. There are many of our players who still have a lot to learn. There is a significant gap between our senior players and those who are in training.
During this complicated period, are you not afraid of wasting all the efforts of the last few months?
No. I tell myself that, on the contrary, we had made these efforts in anticipation of this difficult period. I always said we would sail big waves. Our workforce is as it is. We must strengthen it to have an intermediate layer between our top players and the youngest. This is a project for the future. But in the short term, we enjoyed the good times but we were always clear about the difficulty we were going to experience. Here we are. We are not in panic, we are on orange alert. We must at all costs stick together to beat Racing next week, so as not to fall into red alert.
How to rectify the situation on a daily basis with 20 players absent?
It’s up to us, the staff, to ask ourselves, to be lucid and coherent about the content we are going to offer. We have players who have done a lot, we are pulling on the rope. Some need to regenerate. Next week, we’re going to bring in a few injured players (Lesgourgues, Ducuing), that’s already good news for better rotations. We will stick together to raise our heads.
The notes
5/10. Depoortere, Moustin, Samu, Latterrade, Taufa,
4/10. Buros, Uberti, Nanette, Vergnes, Petti, Douglas
3/10. Holmes, Garcia, Diaby, Poirot
Not rated Affane
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