It’s time for this block of ten games to end. It’s a bit what we allow ourselves to think, at the dawn of this Saturday, November 5th. Brive is dead last in the Top 14 championship, and has had around twenty injuries since the start of the season. “I’d be lying to you if I didn’t tell you I’m fed up” responds tit for tat the South African pillar Marcel Van der Merwe. “But, I want to win. So I have to put aside my emotions, my frustration and focus on the game plan to do things right”
Still positive in training
However, it would be misleading to think that when you’re brooding, you never see the sun. Facing the yellows and blacks of La Rochelle, Brive can dream of a good result, if we hear the arguments of scrum-half Paul Abadie: “There have been some pretty good things in training for the past two weeks. We have a lot of freshness, a new way of seeing things with a more accomplished structure that is different from what there was in the previous months. It’s up to us now to show it on the pitch, like in the last minutes against Racing.”
In recent minutes, with three tries scored between the 70th and 80th minute, it is a reference for the players. Axel Muller, for example, scored his first two tries of the season, and above all, the first since last January. It’s good for confidence, he confesses, “even if I give the same energy to each match. I want to win every match I play. But we all know that we are capable of doing great things.”
It would start with a great victory against Stade Rochelais, which sends a big team with the internationals Hastoy, Dulin or Tanga… The reaction is essential, especially since the new shareholder should be present in the stands to watch the team’s match. in which he promised to invest.