Top 14: in Clermont this Sunday, Stade Toulousain wants to end an incredible shortage in Auvergne
This Sunday, January 1, to celebrate the year 2023, the “Red and Black” hope to end their bad series in the championship against Clermontois in doubt and who have never seemed as catchable as now.
It’s been going on for a little over 20 years. Thursday, during the press briefing at Ernest-Wallon, the subject came to the fore on its own. Inevitably, two decades without bringing back the slightest success from Clermont, that marks. Especially when your name is Stade Toulousain and nothing is used to resisting you for so long.
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Led by Melvyn Jaminet, the discussion around this period of scarcity in Auvergne was reserved in turn by Alban Placines and Pierre-Louis Barassi without it being necessary to launch the two players who succeeded in front of the microphones at the international back.
The sign of the tone given to the short week by the stadium staff after a few days with the family, with the intention, among other things, of putting an end to this bad habit in the midst of volcanoes. At least in the league (1).
Because as the last named confided, the “red and black” club, to keep its leader’s chair, intends to “go do big things outside” in 2023. Start from this Sunday January 1 at evening, at the end of the 14th day of Top 14?
A new year that the Stadistes hope in the continuity of the previous one, the titles in addition. And for that, they know they can’t afford to manage their current lead given the schedule ahead of them.
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“It is sure that the victory against Castres brings us a fairly comfortable mattress, introduces Jean Bouilhou. But if we look in detail, we have two trips then a period without the internationals with Montpellier and Bayonne at home. So we go realize that these will not be easy games to win and whatever we can take, we will take it. It is important that we can get as many points as possible.”
The ASM week sale
This caution can be explained by the harsh winter experienced last year and the traces it left. Nevertheless, targets between Clermont and La Rochelle, that of this evening seems much more accessible. In the trough of the wave, the Clermontois are coming out of an unspecified year 2022 on the sporting level, the end of which was marked by a defeat in Brive at the last second and the announcement of the departure next summer in Bordeaux-Bègles of the Pénaud jewel.
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In other words, the weather is currently much less beautiful in the Puy-de-Dôme than would suggest that 13°C are announced at the start of this 1st of the Year gala even if the Jaunards survive as well as badly at the back of the pack of contenders for qualification.
A boon for Toulouse residents? Perhaps even if once again, the programming of this meeting, the January calendar and the holidays to be given force the staff to operate at a certain turnover within a workforce that will look good.
“We are trying to transform constraints into opportunities, poses Bouilhou. We expect an intense match from Clermont which is in a somewhat delicate period I imagine. From the outside, it is never comfortable to be in a somewhat negative spiral. Afterwards, I’m not going to interfere, it’s a big club with a very strong. I think that the club and the structures are stronger than the momentary contexts and the ASM will necessarily come under this passage.”
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If it could wait until tomorrow, no one would complain about it at Stade Toulousain…
The trend: Clermont 48% – Toulouse 52%
(1): winner of the last time in the league on May 5, 2002 (19-16), Toulouse had won their European quarter-final on April 11, 2021 (21-12)