the Olympic Biarritz
finishes his block on a good note
. Thanks to his 31-15 victory this Friday, November 4, offensive bonus as a bonus, he now points to fifth place in the provisional classification. of the championship Pro D2
. Right in its objectives, since Biarritz is aiming for the first six places and the final stages. But in content, the soundtrack continues to blow hot and cold. The match against Aurillac was no exception: after a first period marked by sterile domination, Biarritz corrected the situation in the second act to finally finish the shots and score four tries. One third of the regular season
the keyword in the mouths of the players as well as the staff and always the same: The constancy
after which red and white always run.
They said :
Barnabé Couilloud, scrum half of the soundtrack: “I don’t think we really doubted because we knew the first half was going to be tough and tense. We started against the wind. We knew it would be complicated and that in the second half, with the wind at our back, it was going to be a little easier and we were going to be able to set up our game and put them under a little more pressure. So I don’t think there was any doubt. Maybe a little, when they come back to a bonus try, you’re like “well, we mustn’t mess around,“but otherwise I don’t think there was any real doubt.
On these first two blocks, really our point to improve is the lost balloons. We lose a lot of balls, especially in the areas between 50 and 22 meters, where we can play. But we know that if we manage to hold these balloons, yes, we can really crack the defenses.
We could have done better
I think we couldn’t have done much better anyway, because we lost a lot of games when there was really room to win. Conversely, I don’t find that the matches we won, we say to ourselves “this one, we won it, but we should have lost it.“Maybe the first game, against Oyonnax it was tense
, but these are high-level matches, so it’s normal. But I think there was a way to do better, even if it’s very positive to finish this block in fourth or fifth place.“
Guy Millar, pillar and captain of the soundtrack: “We have a lot of injuries, especially with the pillars, but some will resume, I hope this week and the situation will improve. It is sure that the break will do good. At the start of the season, if someone had told me that I was going to play so much, I would not have believed it. But there are a lot of injuries, so we have to make the effort. With Baptiste Erdocio, we feel the same, we’re both tired, but that’s the law of rugby. It’s a permanent battle, it’s up to us to hold on until the end. As captain, I also have to lead by example.
As captain, I have to lead by example
If you look at the last ten games, it’s good to be fifth at the end of the block. But I would like us to find consistency, that we have good matches, and not that we alternate the good and the less good. This is our next goal.“
Matthew Clarkin, Sporting Director of the BO: “We are perfectly in the nails. To be in the top five after ten matches, when looking back at the start of the season, is good. Especially since we have a lot of injuries, it prevents us from progressing, individually and collectively. But I hope that this event will serve us for later in the season. We know that all matches are played. I think every team has arguments and I think it would be disrespectful to think that we can score easily and take the score. You have to build on each victory and so it’s also a satisfaction to have beaten Aurillac. We didn’t give up our desire to play but we found a way to make it happen.
I have never seen such a homogeneous Pro D2
I think it did us a lot of good to score at the end of the first half. It rewards all the effort and I think the action was well mastered. So from there, we manage to score in the second period, so it’s very good. Then we saw it all again. We saw a touch that penalized us, prevented us at times from really dominating and concretizing, once again. But it happens and it’s something you have to work on again and again.
I insist that I have never seen such a homogeneous Pro D2
. No one dominates, except perhaps Oyonnax, the machine is starting to turn well. But apart from that, I have the impression that I am convinced that each team will have its moment, a good dynamic which can lead to good results and I just hope that we will have ours. For the moment, we lack consistency but I feel that we are not far off. But it’s not won either. So I think we have things to work on, to improve, and we can hope to win a series of matches.“