After Saturday’s match, the Brivists all had one expression in their mouths: “it hurts the head”. More than the defeat, it is above all the manner that displeased. So much so Mathieu Voisin, third line, released this sentence to react: “Today, I believe that Brive is the worst Top 14 team at the moment”
The balance sheet is not good
Obviously, if we look at the accounting side over the last three days, Brive took two points out of fifteen possible. The only team to have done the same is the USAP, the red lantern. So it’s not very good.
After, if we look at the game on the ground, Brive is among the three teams to have won the least. All this crystallized this weekend, when Brive won 20 rucks less than Biarritz and lost double. Admittedly, in front, there was the best scraper of the Top 14, Johnny, moreover elected man of the match.
But it’s been like that for several weekends, explains Guillaume Galletier, the CAB center. “Already last week against La Rochelle, we were catastrophic in this sector of the ground game. We had precisely focused our week on Armitage and Dyer. In the end, in the first half, we rather managed to contain them, the prevent us from stealing balloons. But, in the second half, we offer two balls to Dyer, six points “
“Dyer? He flattened us all on his own.”
When you scratch less balloons, you shouldn’t lose any. In Biarritz, Jeremy Davidson’s men lost 10 balloons, more than their adversary of the afternoon. They also conceded three more penalties. This was already the case against La Rochelle. Defense, the group’s value, has failed, according to Guillaume Galletier. “I’ve been at Brive for three years and we still have value and point of honor to let go. No match has given up. No point. Hang on from start to finish. There, frankly, c ‘s not hooked in the second half and we sank. ”
Wounded leaders go missing
So, does that make Brive the worst Top 14 team? Beware of hasty judgments, because the infirmary is well stocked in Corrèze. Whether on the front row or in number 8 or Faaso, Kamikamica and Giorgadze got injured. The presence of injuries is a false debate and especially not an excuse, for Jeremy Davidson.
“Frankly, whether there are second line in third line, or third line not at their post, we can not defend like that and give them balls. We have to tighten up.” For Guillaume Galletier, “of course the wounded are missing, they are important leaders and players. But you have to deal with it. We can’t cancel a game because we have injuries. “
“Afterwards, I am not a coach. Me, I am a soldier. I will do what I am told to do and I have no miracle cure. But we will continue to work, work very hard, as we do. been doing since the start of the season, for two or three, four years. “
A medical joker soon in Corrèze?
As for the possibility of a reinforcement in the third line, medical joker to compensate for the absence of Faaso and Kamikamica, Jérémy Davidson explained that he wanted to do first with the men he has in the workforce, but he still looks the options available in the market.