Castres Olympique (CO) is preparing for its trip this Saturday. As part of the 19th day of Top 14, the Castres will play in Paris, on the lawn of the 7th, Racing 92. The CO, he is 4th in the standings. And after two straight wins, against Toulon, then against Lyon last week, the club is on a good dynamic. A dynamic that the Blues and Whites have maintained, in fact, since the start of the season. No doubt thanks to the fact that the club plays in a European Cup, the Champions Cup. To listen to the second line Théo Hannoyer, this competition indeed creates a positive spirit of competition within the workforce, which can also change. “Yes, I think the European Cup did the collective a lot of good. It also showed that we had a very homogeneous group. In terms of the state of mind, we don’t skimp.”
The good performances of the Olympic Castres already allow him to fulfill the main ambition that the club had set at the start of the season: to avoid the descent into ProD2. This objective achieved, and given their current 4th place in the league, thees Castres also see further : “Today, we are aiming for a qualification in the final stages of Top14traces Pierre-Henry Broncan, manager of Castres Olympique. We haven’t had any meetings postponed, unlike other teams who could suddenly have more games to play at the end of the season, which doesn’t help in terms of physical recovery. So we will have an advantage.”
The crisis in Toulouse, not a subject
Pierre-Henry Broncan also returned to the crisis that the rival is going through, the Toulouse Stadium. But this bad pass of the rival is not a subject in the ranks of Olympians. “Toulouse remains a great team, they are penalized at the moment because they cannot count on their senior players”estimates the CO manager, in reference to the absence, in particular, of Antoine Dupont and Romain Ntamack, called up to the France team.
The Castrais will also receive the Toulousains in early April. In the first leg, the latter had won the derbi at home, with the score of 40-0.