The friend is Yoram Moefana and the family is Tani Vili who is none other than Sipili Falatea’s nephew, even though they are only 3 years apart. After 6 days of Top14, the right pillar of the union gave us his feelings on the copies made by the team since the start of the season.
You were leading 15-9 at halftime, why did you lose track?
I think there was too much excitement at one point. Suddenly, which pushed us to make silly mistakes, which cost us two yellow cards and inevitably, when we are fourteen against fifteen and everything got complicated. I think we had strong moments, but that pushed us to make mistakes. And finally, Mathieu’s yellow card cost us dearly because he is the leader. And from the moment he came out, it was hard to find our way around without him. It’s the desire to do well, instead of being lucid, we want to do everything well and we are too excited. And suddenly, individually, we penalize the team. It’s a bit frustrating, especially given the weeks we do and we can’t reproduce it on weekends. And that’s what Christophe Urios says, it’s that during the week it’s good to train, but you have to reproduce it at the weekend. That is the most important.
Are you missing a reference match to start the season?
Yes that’s it. I think the reference match was that of Toulouse. I think if we won it it would have been different. But here we are trying to come back. That being the case, we don’t really have any particular fear because I know that the band reacted well to all that. Frankly, we have a group where the executives try to do better. They do their job well and then they also let us intervene and everything when things go wrong. And that’s how we help each other almost every day in training. But otherwise, the leaders, they do their job well and suddenly, we don’t need to add more.
You yo-yo in the ranking, is it difficult?
The top14 is a really tough championship where there are almost no more small teams but only big teams. Every weekend, we still look at the rankings and we set goals every week to be able to achieve them. Above all, the ranking is really tight at the moment. And suddenly, when you win, you are all up there. And when you lose you are last.