Toulouse. TOAC: Castelnau Médoc to forget the Cup
> The essential
It is very likely that some Toulouse residents had trouble falling asleep last Friday and forgetting those fateful last 30 seconds of the extension of the Coupe de France Trophy final against Fougères. But we must quickly turn the page and refocus on the championship because they will all have to play against Castelnau Médoc in the quarter-finals of the championship tonight. With return to Bordeaux next Saturday. The road to close this beautiful season with a title of champion of France is strewn with pitfalls (the first is for this evening) for a TOAC which must first reassemble the spring which broke at Bercy.
> The NM3 Endgame Formula
She is quite convoluted. The 12 group winners are qualified for six quarter-final matches! There will therefore be three semi-finals, the winners of which will play a Final 6 with three teams from Dom-Tom. This Final 6 will block the weekend of Pentecost with a first day which will oppose the winners of the 3 semi-finals to a team from Dom-Tom. A second where the “real” semi-finals will be contested by the three winners and the best beaten the day before. And so a third used for the final.
>LCastelnau Médoc team
Difficult before these quarter-finals to compare the level of play of the teams which is quite heterogeneous in N3 from one group to another. With only three defeats (two for the TOAC) Castelnau Médoc had as main competitors for the climb Saint-Médard-en-Jalles and Saint-Georges-de-Montaigu. Like the TOAC, the Gironde team has experienced players like Martin Diaw (Boris’ brother), 43, ex-Pro B, who came to do some freelancing alongside François Preira ( 44 years old, ex-Pro B in Bordeaux too) and Alvin Méhou-Loko, a pure product of the formation of JSA Bordeaux.