The match against Toulon leaves its mark on Section Paloise. Not just because the defeat (17-34) pushed the team back to last place in the Top 14, but also because it caused additional injuries. In the forefront of these, the Béarn hooker, Lucas Rey, and the rear or winger Mathias Colombet. They will both miss at least five games announced this Monday evening in 100% Clubs the manager Sébastien Piqueronies. For the hooker, it’s a fracture of the right hand, for the 3/4, it’s a tear in a thigh. Sébastien Piqueronies who adds to this bleak record the monitored concussion protocols of Mickaël Capelli, Zack Henry and Eoghan Barrett.
The infirmary is overflowing
Injuries and unavailability that add to an already long list. Eliott Roudil (knee sprain) and Reece Hewat (partial rupture of the posterior cruciate ligament of a knee) were before that the last to have joined the infirmary, where are already at 3/4 Aminiasi Tuimaba (ankle), Nathan Decron (calf), Jack Maddocks (thigh) and Vincent Pinto (thumb), but also among the forwards another hooker, Romain Ruffenach (calf) and Josselin Bouhier (sternoclavicular trauma). Injuries that target certain positions – there is only one “valid” hooker left, Youri Delhommel, even if Ignacio Calles has been trained in this position – but which should not not result in the arrival of a new medical joker told Sébastien Piqueronies to France Bleu Béarn Bigorre.
On the accumulation of injuries, the manager wanted to be reassuring: “the infirmary is busy at the moment, yes, but each season there are more or less high peaks, we are experiencing one at the moment, we round our backs and move on. We are lucky to have a deep, dense and homogeneous workforce that will allow us to overcome this for sure.“.