Willie Du Plessis “out” until the end of the season. Major tile! The Mons opener, hit in the left ankle against Montauban, passed exams in Bordeaux yesterday Tuesday. Deadly verdict. The Stade Montois master must be operated on and will therefore be unavailable until the end of the championship.
The return of Yohan Laousse – Azpiazu
The yellow and black club will make up for its absence temporarily with Yohan Laousse – Azpiazu, usual rear. Who has already occupied the position of fly-half on several occasions. Waiting to find a replacement. In any case the wasps lose an essential element of their device. The thirty-two-year-old South African, who arrived from Biarritz in the off-season, very quickly established himself in the Mons system. His skill in kicking, his foresight, his technique worked wonders. Its pivotal association with the young Leo Coly is explosive. The absence of Willie Du Plessis will generate a real problem of tactical reorganization for the Gascons. The South African strategist has played nineteen games out of twenty-three with Stade. Each time holder. Thirty-three points in total, therefore five drop-goals from the devil vauvert. But above all a very high quality of intervention. An inspiring player. Almost essential.
The team with or without Du Plessis does not work with the same output and does not play in the same way. The club immediately embarked on the search for a substitute. Which will be quite a job at a time of year when recruitment is being done for next season, when few level players are available on the market. No doubt the Mons will have to seek an opener in the southern hemisphere. The Argentinian sector can, possibly, be more and more significant at the Stade Montois Rugby, Mont-de-Marsan.