After five weeks vacation the Grenoble residents returned to the Lesdiguères stadium this Monday, June 27. Rather fit players, no major overweight was detected during the traditional back-to-school weighingand smiling like the third line Antonin Berruyer: ” it’s always exciting, like when you’re little at the start of the school year, you get up before waking up to go to the stadium with your friends “.
” it’s all about rugby ” Pierre Sagot new performance manager
The Rouge et Bleu have eight weeks to prepare for the resumption of the Pro D2 championship at the end of August, a summer preparation under the orders of a new performance manager, Pierre Sagot, who has just arrived from Angoulême and whose dough has already seen since during the first day, there was a lot of ball work, which is not automatic in the first days of work. ” My priority is that everything revolves around rugby, so there will be rugby and the ball every day “explains the one who is now in charge of preparing the FCG.
So games, but all the same a lot of sweat, running and weight training, not the funniest time for rugby players, but you have to go through it. ” Not necessarily a bad time ” for Thibaut Martel; ” it’s true that it’s hard but we’re all together, we help each other, everyone is in trouble and everyone is pulling themselves up “provides the third line.
Replay leading roles
And this summer the people of Grenoble are determined to work twice as hard so as not to relive the same experience as last season, which ended at a sad 12th place. A difficult, tiring season, which the players and the staff took the time to digest during the holidays. But no one wants to forget, the watchword is above all not to start over and to learn. ” We are going to work a little differently on the physical preparation part, on rugby as well since we have identified all the points on which we need to progress. “Explains manager Fabien Gengenbacher, also determined” to build a community “.
To replay the leading roles, the FCG is also counting on its recruits, who will only join the group next week. Between now and the resumption of the championship at the end of August, Grenoble will play two friendly matchesagainst Béziers (August 5) and Oyonnax (August 12).