Despite a five-star poster between the two best formations of this start to the Top 14 season, we will not see certain executives from Stade Toulousain on Sunday in Montpellier.
“Anticipate duplicates”
After a season without a title, the staff pointed the finger at the management of certain internationals and therefore of possible replacements at the end of the exercise. In order not to make the same mistakes again, the workforce rotates: “Given our squad and the players who will be on the pitch, it is in our best interest to prepare properly without taking into account the absence of some. These are the same times as when we have injured players. same thing, it allows us to anticipate periods when the internationals will be absent”, explains Virgile Lacombe, in charge of the Toulouse scrum.
More rotation to come then. Choice assumed: “This is the assessment we made last season. How to try to end the season with players who are still full of energy and how to better live the period of doubles? We are really looking to integrate a few more young players, to rotate our workforce a little more. Now, our workforce allows us to do it. We don’t send a player to the fire, far from it.”
For this meeting in Hérault, Ugo Mola and his staff should do without the services of Antoine Dupont, Peato Mauvaka and Anthony Jelonch. All three left to rest at the start of the week. Toulouse will also not be able to count on its second line Richie Arnold, suspended.