Top 14. Reactions after La Rochelle
“You can’t play rugby if you don’t have a conquest. We were too deficient in this sector and we were unable to find solutions collectively. We wanted to test young players, with all the same executives around, and they were able to realize the progress he had against the European champions. And that’s a lesser evil. If I was the coach of La Rochelle, I wondered how did not take the bonus point. It’s an anomaly. The European campaign was perhaps already a little too much in our heads. It’s a match to forget, a booster shot. We have to move on. »
Ronan O’Gara (Stade Rochelais manager)
“It’s a privilege to coach a team with such an audience. There is no other like it in France, maybe in Bayonne. Even before the match, there was a special atmosphere in the air. It had to happen one day (to beat Toulouse), it happened tonight. It was necessary, but I trusted. We built the match well, we did what was necessary against a Toulouse team who hoped to do something if we had been less well. The group was united and showed a lot of maturity. Tonight, we have a clean match, a normal performance. We are going to have bigger challenges in the future”.