Fight between Pamiers and Toulouse in amateur rugby: “One of the referees fell like a mass!” The story of the Toulouse coach
General brawl, touch referee hit and game stopped… Sylvain Gomez, the TTFCT coach looks back on this chaotic match number against Pamiers, and hopes that the Disciplinary Committee, soon to be seized of the case, will grant his club victory. on green carpet.
Sylvain Gomez, to start, can you tell us the facts, what did you perceive from the bench?
It was between the 51st and 54th, we were playing a match that we had prepared in a simplified way. We were going to Pamiers, a solid team, and we wanted to do well knowing that our objective was to qualify. In short, the match starts in a very committed way, it was rough in the contacts but pleasant to play because there was no animosity. We were trailing at the break and had just equalized. At 6 everywhere, they are sanctioned. The referee whistles a penalty 22m in front of the poles for a misplay…
Is this where the situation escalated?
Yes… Tempers flare and a fight breaks out. Some of my players have rejected the bench and I ask them not to be confused, that we are gaining the upper hand and we can manage to win. Only in the distance we see a crowd of players from Pamiers and there one of the referees falls like a mass.
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Difficult to keep the players focused after such a scene?
Indeed, but I tell the players to stay in a circle, to stay focused, to form a bubble because we had hopes of resuming. As I explain, the weakness was easy to hit, 22 m in front, we took over physically and they were going to end up at 15 against 13…
This is where the referee decides to stop the match.
Yes, he comes to see us and informs us that he is going to stop the match and that the outcome of this match will be decided in committee. After his announcement, we see his appraiser arrive with a split lip. We clearly see that he does not make “cinema” and we understand that we will not be able to resume… We are stunned…
Do you understand the decision to stop the meeting?
We don’t want to argue at the moment, we’re not here to be able to do anything, but the decision saddens us because we would have liked to finish this match knowing that we could win it. Suddenly, we shake hands with the Appameans and we go back to the locker room frustrated. Frustrated because we were 15 against 13, we had a good match and we could have won against a great team from Pamiers, which is not negligible in the race for the play-offs.
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In fact, you hope that the commission will rule in favor of a victory on the green carpet of the TTFCT?
Sportingly it would not be undeserved. We did not take 40 points at the time of the facts, we did not ask for anything about the stoppage of the match so without wanting to argue, we fear that the decision leans in our favor.