A feeling of waste. Ugo Mola, the Stade Toulousain coach, spoke about the recent match reports that his team faced. The Toulouse Stadium has, in fact, seen these last home matches postponed. First against the English club Wasps following the measures taken to limit the spread of the coronavirus between France and Great Britain, then against the Stade Français for Boxing Day after the discovery of many cases of Covid-19 in the ranks Parisians.
“We functioned as if nothing had happened”
But Ugo Mola is convinced that all of this could have been avoided: “We’re like you: we put up with things. We regret not having been able to bring together the equivalent of 53,000 people in two sold-out meetings at the club. sportingly, we deprived ourselves of two games that were important in our process. We deal with it. But, my only regret is the lack of an emergency protocol. We are not out of this pandemic, but we have been operating as if nothing had happened for some time : people in the stadiums, no more protocol concerning rugby players. We just wished we had a real protocol. “
Ugo Mola adds: “I amso disappointed for us, for our supporters, for our partners. I don’t think we learn too much from our past. We will try to be a little less stupid than average and focus on what we master, that is to say our internal protocol. We weren’t asked, but we tested each other, we try to anticipate things to be able to play.
“We’re going to try to be a little less stupid than average.”
“A bit of’anticipation of protocols Perhaps we could have arranged two important meetings for us. I am therefore vigilant on what will happen in the coming days. Because we already have a match to play against Clermont-Ferrand. “
The match against ASM Clermont at the Michelin stadium will have Saturday January 1 at 9:05 p.m., if there is no postponement due to coronavirus.