Saint-Gaudens. How Racing in Avignon
Will the Bears let SO Avignon come and dance on the Saint-Gaudens bridge? Maybe… A priori, they don’t want it. Even if the Treizistes suffered three defeated copies in the first three days of the championship, they work very hard and their motivation is hardly dull. However, a chosen one is certain, Sunday, it will be still very complicated.
Because if SO Avignon, with a solid workforce of around forty elite players, has achieved great prowess by overcoming Catalan traps and by winning at Villeneuve sur Lot, Racing, him , fishing for lack of staff. Bad luck, tenacious, is stuck to the skin of the Bears and some decisions taken have unfortunately turned out to be awkward. “For us, it’s not a bad surprise to see where we are at the start of the championship, commented in unison by several leaders. Three or four months ago, we were no longer seen.
The Australians’ pschitt
In our mid-season recruitment, we have mainly chosen to recruit young people. We are preparing for the future. Maxime de Pian is 21 years old. Valentin Blasi and Viannney Morin are 20 years old. Maxence Vuillermet and Kerian Lewis 19 years old. With the junior team, we are recovering from a good pool of young people and we have decided to make them elite players. It takes time. We have also been poorly advised, let’s face it. This summer we made the wrong choice of bringing in two Australians, Dylan Morris and Joshua Dowel who, after their 30 day trial period had passed, did not turn out to be the ones we expected. They planted us. These guys didn’t come to play rugby, that’s okay too. On a terminated their contract by mutual agreement. And then, there are already many injured players: Quentin Quemener and Maxime de Pian have not yet played. Clément Cartier, ruptured cruciate ligaments, has not been operational since the first match. It’s difficult.
On hard boss. We know that we still have two games to play in difficult conditions. Avignon, then Villeneuve, it will be complicated. But nothing is lost. Welshman Kerian Lewis has finally obtained his visa and license. It will be available. And we are looking to replace the two Australians distributed. We are on the right track. It will be better in January, I’m sure. This year, we have good hopes of a good staff, Jérôme Acevedo assisted by Guillaume Cau and Jean-François Chanfreau, of a physical trainer, Jordan Stefani. We have just joined the team of a new osteopath, Marine Aslayan, who also comes to strengthen us. We have never had such a staff. We still have a lot of work to do.
Sunday, the Bears will play the fourth part of the championship at home, at 3 p.m., at the Jules Ribet stadium opposite Avignon. The juniors, opposed to Cahors, will invite themselves to raise the curtain, from 1 p.m. Quite an advanced club, ready to get out of the rut.